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Ashland Independent Film Festival Releases Program for Virtual Festival

The 19th annual Ashland Independent Film Festival released its schedule for an interactive virtual festival that will capture the intimacy and magic of the annual Southern Oregon event popular with filmmakers and audiences.

Richard Herskowitz, AIFF Executive and Artistic Director, in a special 30-minute video available at www.ashlandfilm.org, will preview highlights of the 30 feature films and over 100 short films accepted to the annual April festival, which was cancelled by the coronavirus but which quickly moved to an expanded online event.

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Northwest Film Center “At Home” Presents “Spaceship Earth” May 8

The Northwest Film Center and the Portland Art Museum present the virtual opening of Spaceship Earth, screening online starting Friday, May 8 for a one week run. Spaceship Earth premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and follows eight people who spent two years inside of a replica of Earth’s ecosystem called Biosphere 2.

Your $3.99 ticket will directly support both NWFC and PAM and we encourage all of our board, members, staff, and supporters to join us—and spread the word.

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Support Local Restaurants and a Local Film with “Takeout and a Movie”

Support your favorite local restaurant and help promote a unique experience that will raise money for restaurants who are serving meals to our frontline heroes and to those with food insecurity. Take part in Takeout And A Movie, virtually, on Saturday, May 9th!

This is an opportunity to stream a fun and inspiring local movie, PHOENIX OREGON, and support a charitable fund for the hospitality industry.

Takeout And A Movie #TakeoutAndAMovie #HospitalityHelpFund

About the movie Variety says “To put it simply–and, yes, gratefully–Phoenix, Oregon is the sort of movie a lot of us need right now.”

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Soma Games Staff Bio – Sound Designer James Marantette

Soma Games LLC is an indie video game developer located in Newberg, Oregon. We believe video games can be far more than time-wasters. Video games hold the potential to showcase beauty, reward adventure and excellence, and challenge thinking. Our goal is to passionately and dutifully craft the games that elevate humanity rather than waste it. To learn more, check out our website.
JAMES MARANTETTE 

James is likely the loudest person on our team. He isn’t loud himself, but as our sound designer, composer, and all-around audio guy, he makes a lot of noise.

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Production in the Age of Corona – A Specific Case Study

Filmmaker Chad Parker created a short series about staying at home that created and utilized a production process that adheres to the current social distancing and health & safety requirements still in place here in Oregon. Check out all three of these fun shorts and their process to get them planned, shot, edited and presented to us all.

“In times of great change, relevant messages are more important than ever. We aimed to find a safe way to produce them. We waited until after the curve had begun to flatten to have our shoot, and we operated within the distancing guidelines set forth in the Oregon executive order.

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Getting Oregon Production Back to Work

With the Governor’s framework document for “Reopening Oregon” being released yesterday we have started to have specific conversations with filmmakers, producers, companies and partners like the OMPA, Portland Film Office, IATSE 488, SAG-AFTRA, & DGA about what safety protocols will now need to be in place for production, large and small, to resume here in Oregon.

To that end, we would encourage anyone with suggestions for what should be considered and/or included in these post-Covid production protocols to reach out to us with your thoughts.

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Navigating Unemployment Claims

Here is some useful info on navigating unemployment claims from Rep. Christine Drazan:

If you are experiencing issues with your claims or need to file, here are some things you can do to get things moving:

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Take OMPA’s Survey + Enter To Win A $250 Amazon Gift Card

OMPA Community Survey: Win a $250 Amazon gift card!

OMPA is conducting an anonymous survey to help us understand exactly who our community is and what your needs are. Please share 10-15 minutes of your time so we can better serve you. Thank you for participating! Please share with your network.

Take the survey here

 


Amazon Gift Card Raffle

You can enter to win a $250 Amazon gift card after you submit the survey. The deadline to enter the raffle is this Friday, April 24 at 5pm PT.


Questions?

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MONUMENT: Oregon-Made Holocaust Documentary Looking For Support

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516460982/monument

My grandma, a survivor of Auschwitz, was never able to tell us what happened to her during the Holocaust.  But at the end of life, she returned to her hometown in Hungary to build a mysterious memorial for the town’s Jewish people, including her family. MONUMENT is a feature-length documentary film about my first visit to the memorial, hoping to find answers about what happened to her, and what it means to pass on traumatic memory.

We had the unfortunate timing of launching a crowdfunding campaign for Monument just before the COVID-19 outbreak, but we’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by the amount of support we’ve received. 

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New Mobile Game from Soma Games: Wind Up Robots Classic

 

It’s here! Wind Up Robots Classic is now available wherever mobile apps are sold. Available for both android and Apple devices, it has something for everyone, which is why we’ve decided to make the game available again. If you’d like, check out our video game trailer.

We think you’ll enjoy the game if you like any of the following:

  • Strategy
  • Tactical analysis
  • Cute characters
  • Fun, upbeat music
  • Robots
  • Dinosaurs
  • Monsters
  • Treasure to buy rewards (must-have robot fedora, anyone?)
  • Coupons and discounts to establishments local to YOU (with opt-in JoyMonster plugin)

If you decide to play and love it, we’d really appreciate a review.

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