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Robert Blanche Fundraiser Now Accepting Raffle Donations

From Northwest Labor Press:

This year’s SAG awards watch party will raise money for a union actor who’s fighting for his life

Actors Awkwafina and Laverne Cox announce the nominees for the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Every year, the union performers in the Portland SAG-AFTRA local gather at the Lake Theater in Lake Oswego to watch their union’s televised annual awards event. This year, the event is open to all local union members and supporters, and is doubling as a fundraiser for local SAG-AFTRA president Robert Blanche, who’s fighting for his life after a double lung transplant. Continue reading... “Robert Blanche Fundraiser Now Accepting Raffle Donations”

WORKING LUNCH Short Film by Shilpa Sunthankar to have Portland Premiere

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 sourappleproductions Film and Media Industry, Independent, Independent Films, Oregon Film, WomenLeave a Comment

Portland, Oregon – December 3, 2018 – The much anticipated short film, WORKING LUNCH, by Portland-based Director and Producer, Shilpa Sunthankar, is set to have the Portland Premiere on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at The Whitsell Auditorium. Director Shilpa Sunthankar will be in attendance.The film previously had a successful world premiere at the 19th Annual Filmi: Toronto’s South Asian Film Festival and was selected as part of the 2018 Fall Screening Series by New Filmmakers, New York.

Statement by Shilpa Sunthankar: “At its heart WORKING LUNCH is a portrayal of our current national conflict, in miniature, via a tiny Indian restaurant. Continue reading... “WORKING LUNCH Short Film by Shilpa Sunthankar to have Portland Premiere”

Spotlight On Location Scout/AC – Rocky Garrotto

November 5, 2018 Oregon Film #OregonMade, Locations, Rural Production Rocky GarrottoLeave a Comment

Spotlight on Rocky Garrotto

Location Scout and 1st AC

“I love location scouting – it’s like a treasure hunt.”

In a smaller market like Southern Oregon, you have to wear multiple production hats to work year-round, and so in addition to still photography I also shoot video, edit, and often work as a 1^st AC. But I really love location scouting – it’s like a treasure hunt. Being versatile and tech-savvy comes in handy when using various software and logistical GPS app tools, such as “Where Am I” for longitude, latitude, altitude and address information. Continue reading... “Spotlight On Location Scout/AC – Rocky Garrotto”

Inaugural “Portland Circuit” Collaboration Began With Sold Out Theatre!

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 Oregon Film #OregonMade, Events, Film and Media Industry, Independent, Independent Films "Sex Weather", Cinema 21, Clinton Street Theatre, Hollywood Theatre, Jon Garcia, Northwest Film Center, The Portland CircuitLeave a Comment

Photo: Breaking Glass PicturesTHE PORTLAND CIRCUIT:

The#OregonMade Creative Foundation alongside the Northwest Film Center, the Hollywood Theatre, the Clinton Street Theater, and Cinema 21 announce the first film selected for a unique theatrical distribution program for locally produced feature films.

The Portland Circuit, a collaboration between the #OregonMade Creative Foundation, the Northwest Film Center, the Hollywood Theatre, the Clinton St. Theater, and Cinema 21, has been created to provide a local theatrical run for #OregonMade feature films. Continue reading... “Inaugural “Portland Circuit” Collaboration Began With Sold Out Theatre!”

Emmy Award winner, Visual Effects Supervisor Juri Stanossek to attend screening of JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER

October 2, 2018 Yvonne Behrens Animation/VFX, Digital, Education, Events, Film Festivals, Media Services, TV Series Animation VFX, Children's Movie, Emmy Awards, Games of Thrones, Germany, Juri Stanossek, Mackevision, VFXLeave a Comment

Emmy Award winner, Visual Effects Supervisor Juri Stanossek will attend the screening of JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER on Sunday Oct. 7, 218 @ 3.00 PM at CINEMA 21. Following the screening will be a presentation about VFX by Juri Stanossek followed by a Q&A.

Juri Stanossek started his career in 1994. Since then he’s supervised more than 40 movies for TV and cinema. He acted as Visual Effects Supervisor at Elektrofilm from 2004 to 2008 and then moved forward to Pixomondo Stuttgart, where he supervised international productions like “Ghostwriter” (2010), “Hugo Cabret” (2011) , “Game of Thrones” (2012) and “Rush” (2013).

Oregon Film & Oregon State Parks Plant 50 Trees in Celebration of 50 Years Of Oregon Film Office (Plus The First Historic Oregon Film Trail Sign Is Installed)

September 18, 2018October 30, 2018 Oregon Film #OregonMade, #OregonMade 50th Anniversary, Featured Locations, Locations, News, Oregon Film, Oregon Film 50th, Oregon Made Creative Foundation, Rural Production "Sometimes A Great Notion", Forest stewards, Forest Succession, Gleneden State Beach Recreation Site, Historic Oregon Film Trail, Oregon Film, Oregon State Parks, OregonMade Creative FoundationLeave a Comment

The Oregon Film Office and Oregon State Parks planted 50 Sitka Spruce, Western Red Cedar, Douglas-fir, and Western Hemlock seedlings conifer trees at Gleneden Beach State Recreation site to mark the 50th anniversary of the Oregon Film Office and its long standing collaboration with Oregon State Parks.

Additionally, at this site, a sign was erected as part of the recently created the Historic Oregon Film Trail. The sign indicates that the movie, “Sometimes A Great Notion” was filmed very close to the park and in and around the Siletz River area. Continue reading... “Oregon Film & Oregon State Parks Plant 50 Trees in Celebration of 50 Years Of Oregon Film Office (Plus The First Historic Oregon Film Trail Sign Is Installed)”

Portland Film Office Gets Official City Liaison In Comm. Nick Fish

August 13, 2018September 6, 2018 Oregon Film #OregonMade, Portland Commissioner Nick Fish, Jamie Dunphy, Portland City Hall, Portland Film OfficeLeave a Comment

September 2018 – Commissioner Nick Fish will become the Portland City Council’s first official liaison to the Portland Film Office. His Senior Policy Director, Mr. Jamie Dunphy, will be point on this new relationship.

The role, created at Commissioner Fish’s request, recognizes the challenges that film productions face – tight turnaround times, tight budgets, and unique physical challenges operating in a busy urban city – and establishes a direct line of communication with City Hall. This liaison role can be helpful in coordinating broad cooperation across City bureaus, problem solving, assisting with long-term financial sustainability, and establishing a high-level City lead in any issue involving the film industry. Continue reading... “Portland Film Office Gets Official City Liaison In Comm. Nick Fish”

Winner Announced For #OregonMade Screenwriter’s Residency Award

August 6, 2018 Oregon Film #OregonMade, Grants, News, Oregon Made Creative Foundation, Women, Writers Janelle Lassalle, NW Film Center, OregonMade Cretive Foundation, Playa Residency AwardLeave a Comment

August 6th, 2018: The OregonMade Creative Foundation, Northwest Film Center and Playa Summer Lake announce the winner for the 2nd annual Playa residency award.

The Screenwriter’s Residency program, now in its second year, received over 30 pitches, proposals and outlines from screenwriters, filmmakers and related creators focusing on a new take on an old genre – The Western. Projects needed to be set in the Northwest but not necessarily all in Oregon, while writers needed to be current Oregon residents. Continue reading... “Winner Announced For #OregonMade Screenwriter’s Residency Award”

Athena’s Gem Theatre – Getting A New Lease Of Life

July 17, 2018September 13, 2018 Oregon Film #OregonMade, #OregonMade 50th Anniversary, Featured Locations, History, Kickstarter, Movies, News, Oregon Film Athena, Athena's Gem, City Girl, Inc., Mary Duncan, Pacific Power Blue Sky, The Gem TheatreLeave a Comment

KPTV – FOX 12

The community of Athena come together to form a volunteer work party to restore theri town theatre.

The Gem Theatre is located in Athena—a small, community surrounded by wheat fields in the northeast corner of Oregon. The theatre showed its first “moving pictures” in 1909 and closed in 1968. Four decades of decay followed—an all too common tale of theatres lost forever. But, in the case of the Gem, a handful of determined volunteers intervened beginning in 2004. Continue reading... “Athena’s Gem Theatre – Getting A New Lease Of Life”

HouseSpecial Releases An Animated Investigation Into The World Of Armadillo Mating

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018 Alise Munson Animation/VFX, Featured Videos, Independent Films, Portland animated shorts, armadillo, CG, HouseSpecialLeave a Comment

This short is currently screening at Portland International Airport through July in The Hollywood Theatre’s Micro- Cinema on C Concourse.

May 24, 2018 – From world-renowned animation studio HouseSpecial and Director Kirk Kelley comes Armor del Amor – a scripted nature ‘documentary’ that follows the mating rituals of Dasypus novemcinctus, to discover the dark underbelly of modern mammalian dating.

The narrative follows a nine-banded female armadillo as she emerges from her burrow and into the lonely Texas landscape. HouseSpecial researchers captured footage of this modern animal’s efforts to find a potential mate until finally, after several ill-fated opportunities, a match is made. Continue reading... “HouseSpecial Releases An Animated Investigation Into The World Of Armadillo Mating”