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2011 Directory Release PartyBook, Beer, and BBQ!

2011 Directory Release PartyBook, Beer, and BBQ!

Friday, April 15thAt the OMPA compound

901 SE Oak St., Suite 104From 2pm to 7pm

Join friends and colleagues for this celebration of Oregon’s production industry.

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James WilderHancock, PresidentGovernment Affairs and Business Development Co-ChairWilderHancock [email protected] Cicala, Vice-PresidentMembership [email protected] Troester, Secretary/TreasurerGolf Co-ChairHays Companies of [email protected] Crisman, Past PresidentDirectory ChairRead [email protected] LopezGovernment Affairs and Business Development ChairKathleen Lopez Production [email protected]

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In support of HB 2167

Tom McFaddenOMPA Executive Director

Thank you to all who made it to Salem last month for a fabulous show of support for HB 2167! A video is now circulating Facebook that we would like you to ‘like’, so go to “Oregon Film and TV Workers” community page and add your job. Our interest is to have everyone whose work is affected by our industry join in (everyone who uses Facebook at least.)

Our work at growing jobs doesn’t stop there however. As you know, the Oregon Production Investment Fund (OPIF) and the Greenlight Oregon Labor Rebate, which are the main drivers for bringing work into Oregon, will sunset at the end of this year if they aren’t extended by action of the Oregon Legislature. If you work in this industry, you don’t want to let this happen. Here is what you can continue to do:

Connect with your legislator. OMPA has since last Fall organized an awareness campaign to let legislators know that real people

from their districts work in this industry. A recap of what to do: 1) Look up your two Oregon legislators from the home page of www.ompa.org (your state legislators, not Federal.) 2) Send them an email that tells them you live in their district, and how your life is impacted when we grow more production business in Oregon. And whenever you see your legislator is holding a Town Hall, show up and speak up.

Monitor the press. Keep an eye out for stories that talk about our incentive program. Business incentive programs that

are funded through the sale of tax credits are under increasing scrutiny right now, and programs that are not proven to be of high value and efficiency at generating investment and job growth in the state are not moving forward. The good news is that OPIF currently ranks right among the top of the most valuable tax-credit funded economic development programs that Oregon operates. That is why the last two governors, the labor unions, the City of Portland, and of course, our industry supports it. It appears we have support of the majority of the Oregon legislature as well.

The bad news for us is that this success means that our program will face even more scrutiny as it moves forward, and you’ll hear concerns echoed in the media. Help us keep the positive message about job growth.

Once again, extra special thanks to the individuals and production companies that contributed cash to make our

trip to Salem a success: @Large Films, Kamp Grizzly, Bent Image Labs,

Koerner Camera, Picture This Production Services & Stage, Gearhead Grip & Elecric, Pacific Grip & Electric,

Funnelbox, Gales Creek Insurance, David Cress, SourceOregon.com, Rose City Roseman,

Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and OMSI.

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10th Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival on April 7th - 11th The acclaimed Ashland Independent Film Festival

returns to the Varsity Theatre, the Historic Ashland Armory, and the Ashland Springs Hotel in the heart of the historic downtown Ashland, Oregon, April 7-11 for the tenth annual, five-day showcase of independent film. Over 6000 film lovers gather each year as creators of the art come from around the world to engage with the community nestled in the Siskiyou mountains near the Rogue River and Crater Lake. The festival’s full schedule and film descriptions are available now at www.ashlandfilm.org.

Festival films include 10 Academy Award nominees and two Oscar winners. Among the 84 documentary, short and feature films this year are numerous films made in Oregon, including Hood to Coast, about the famous team relay run from Mount Hood to the Oregon coast, and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. Many productions were based in Ashland, including local attorney turned filmmaker Susan Saladoff’s Hot Coffee and AIFF alumni filmmaker Kim Shelton’s The Welcome.

Other 2011 festival attractions are special guest, three time Emmy nominee Harry Shearer (This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind), who will present his documentary The Big Uneasy, about why New Orleans flooded during Hurricane Katrina, his ground breaking mockumentary This is Spinal Tap and receive the AIFF’s Rogue Award.

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) will attend with his new film POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold in which he examines the world of product placement, marketing and advertising by making a film entirely financed by them. Spurlock will take part in The Greatest Movie Conversation Ever, interviewed onstage by The Oregonian’s Shawn Levy, and the festival will also present him with a Rogue Award.

A number of AIFF alumni filmmakers will return to the festival this year. Peter D. Richardson comes back to Ashland with his Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner How to Die in Oregon, focusing on the state’s assisted suicide law, and Irene Brodsky will return with the world premiere of her account from the Gulf oil spill, Saving Pelican 895.

Portland filmmakers David Weissman’s documentary on the advent of AIDS in San Francisco, We Were Here, and Brett Eichenberger’s world premiere of his narrative feature, Light of Mine will both be featured. Chris Munch shot his Sasquatch-based feature Letters From the Big Man, which recently premiered at Sundance, in locales throughout Southern Oregon. Ondi Timoner and Robert James’ short documentary Library of Dust, about unclaimed cremains found at the Oregon State Hospital, will be accompanied by a showing at Ashland’s Bohemia Gallery of David Maisel’s photographs that are featured in the film.

The celebration of the 10th annual AIFF will include even more filmmakers as The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored the AIFF as one

of only 30 festivals in the U.S. to receive a prestigious 2010 Academy grant.

The AIFF again will feature Oscar® nominated films – ten in all this year with two winners. Three nominated documentary features - Gasland, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Waste Land will have their Southern Oregon theatrical debut at the festival. Four Academy Award recognized documentary shorts – Killing in the Name, Poster Girl, The Warriors of Quigang and the category winner, Strangers No More, will also be screened at the festival along with the nominated live actions shorts The Confession and Oscar-winner God of Love and the animated short Let’s Pollute.

For Hot Coffee, Ashland attorney Susan Saladoff put her career on hold to become a filmmaker and tell the story of the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s. Using this now-infamous legal battle as a springboard into investigating our civil-justice system, Hot Coffee exposes the way corporations have spent millions using this case to promote tort reform by following four people whose lives have been devastated by their inability to access the courts. The film premiered at Sundance.

Ashland filmmakers (AIFF alum - A Great Wonder: Lost Children of Sudan) Kim Shelton and Bill McMillan’s special screening of The Welcome documents a five day healing retreat for veterans and family members from wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Filming follows them from the retreat at Buckhorn Springs Resort outside of Ashland to the culminating welcome home event at

Photograph by Steven Good

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Photograph by Kieran Henthorn

the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where the vets present vivid personal poetry to a sold out audience of the civilian community.

Hood to Coast follows four unlikely teams on their epic journey to conquer the world’s largest relay race, run from Mount Hood to the Oregon coast. The film captures the love, dedication, and insanity of the every day runner as well as the excitement, pain, and humor of the unprepared first time racer. Each year 1,000 teams (12,000 runners) cover 197 grueling miles of relay, putting themselves through an arduous physical and mental journey. In this celebratory look at motivation and attempting the extraordinary, four teams, from their preparations through the big event, prove that winning isn’t everything.

In 1896, the Hawaiian language was banned from public schools. The current resurgence of the language and culture is reflected in the spirit of a unique competition. One Voice chronicles the annual Kamehameha School Song Contest as 2000 high school students, directed by their peers, sing eight-part harmony in the Hawaiian language. Their preparation involves research and lengthy rehearsals, and competition among the classes is intense. AIFF alumni filmmaker Lisette Flannery (Men of Hula, American Aloha) follows student “song leaders” as they prepare for this cultural celebration.

In a special screenings of Letters from the Big Man,

in the remote wilderness of southwestern Oregon, a hydrologist embarks on an expedition to conduct a government water survey. An intrepid outdoors woman, she craves a solo journey so she can reconnect with herself and nature. As she ventures deep into the forest, she intuits another presence. Gradually, the elusive figure reveals himself to be a Sasquatch, and the two interact tentatively. As their bond intensifies, the woman finds she must take bold steps to protect the “Big Man’s” privacy, as well as her own. In Letters from the Big Man acclaimed director Munch explores the possibility of communicating directly with the ineffable mysteries in nature.

The AIFF will again offer Locals Only, free programs of works by local filmmakers. The Sunday morning Locals program will include the winners of The Launch, the festival’s Southern Oregon student competition.

The Ashland Independent Film Festival features question-and-answer sessions which follow many of the screenings and festival audiences also have the opportunity to rub elbows with filmmakers over a late-night drink at the afterLOUNGE hosted by The Black Sheep Pub and Restaurant.

The festival will also again feature free TALKback panel discussions with filmmakers of all genres discussing their craft at the Ashland Springs Hotel Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. Guest moderators will lead the discussions and field audience questions.

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Hundreds Rally In Salem In Support Of Oregon’s Film Incentive ProgramsBy Harold Phillips

Nearly 200 Oregon film and TV workers (including the actor to the left) braved wind, rain, and a severe thunderstorm warning to converge on the state capitol in Salem Tuesday in support of Oregon’s film incentive programs.

As the group organized on the capitol steps, Oregon Media Production Association Executive Director Tom McFadden noted that they were at the capitol representing a solution, and a bright light for Oregon’s economy.

“Media production,” he said, “whether it’s film, television, commercials or music videos – facilitates communication, entertains, and solves problems. Just like our industry offers one solution to Oregon’s job problems. ”

The assembled film and TV workers talked to passers-by, conducted interviews with each other for an online video being put together in support of the Oregon Production Investment Fund and Greenlight Oregon, and then gathered on the steps in the shape of the state to shout “Oregon Film Means Jobs!“

Afterwards, the crowd dispersed to find dinner in downtown Salem before a special advance screening of the shot-in-Oregon film Meek’s Cutoff at Salem’s Elsinore theater – providing yet another example of film and TV production’s economic impact. While we don’t have precise figures on the amount film and TV workers spent in Salem Tuesday, we can assume that the majority of those 200 people purchased food priced between $5.00 and $15.00… we’ll leave it to you to do the math!

In an article on the film office’s Oregon Confluence blog, Governor’s Office of Film and Television Executive Director Vince Porter notes that between the Capitol Steps event and the screening the crowd swelled to between 400 and 500 people. In his opening remarks for the evening, Porter noted that there were a lot of empty seats in the theater for the screening – but that he took that as a positive sign.

Before taveling to Salem for the event, he said, he tallied the “crew sheets” for that day’s production on Leverage, Grimm, the new feature film Gone, and two animation projects that have qualified for OPIF funds. In all, 642 people had been employed by those productions, and were thus unable to make it to Salem for the event – a reminder, again, of the employment benefits that come with Oregon’s film incentive programs.

Porter then turned the stage over to state Senator Betsy Johnson, who told the audience she was “proud to be the senator from The Goonies.” Johnson praised the Oregon film and Television industry for the large contribution it makes to the state’s economy, and even shared a personal story about the benefit her helicopter company received when it was hired for aerial photography on a production.

Senator Johnson then gave the stage to Oregon Arts Commission director Chris D’Arcy who thanked the audience for being there in support of the Oregon Cultural Trust. She then passed the stage to state Representative Peter Buckley who, in turn, introduced state Senate president Peter Courtney. As Porter says in his Oregon Confluence post:

“Senator Courtney is well known as one of the most knowledgeable historians in the Oregon Legislature so it was an honor to have him introduce Meek’s Cutoff which is steeped in history.”

All in all it was a very successful event and the money raised for the Oregon Cultural Trust will be used in future efforts to benefit the state wide arts and culture institutions.

As Senator Johnson said at the end of her remarks, however, this event is far from the end of the film and TV industry’s effort to renew and expand Oregon’s film incentive programs - if the effort is to succeed, every person in the Elsinore Theater (and everyone reading this) must contact their legislators and ask them to move House Bill 2167 out of the Revenue and Transportation Committee, and on to the floor for a final vote!

“Reprinted from Oregon Film and TV Dollars - www.OregonFilmandTVDollars.com”

One of the many Actors at Tuesday’s

Rally At The Oregon State Capitol.

Photograph by Harold Phillips

Oregon Film and TV Supporters Gather at Salem’s Historic Elsinore Theater For an Advance Screening of Meek’s Cutoff.

Photograph byRicky Guillen

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The Cinema Pacific Film Festival will return to the University of Oregon campus and the Eugene/Springfield community April 6 to April 10 for its second annual showcase of films and new media from the Pacific Rim and U.S. West Coast.

The five-day program includes more than 20 film screenings, live performances, symposiums, gallery exhibitions and two filmmaking competitions. Events take place at venues on campus and across Eugene, including the Bijou Art Cinemas and Hult Soreng Theatre. The complete schedule, with full program details, is available at http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu.

The centerpiece of this year’s festival will be the West Coast premiere of Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place. A screening and party at the McDonald Theater on Friday, April 8 will celebrate Eugene legend Ken Kesey. The film takes audiences into the Pranksters’ counterculture and their legendary LSD-spurred road trip across the country. The documentary features Kesey’s personal footage, audio recordings and photographs that intertwine to create an immersive cinematic experience. Director Alex Gibney, the Academy Award-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, will attend, along with co-director Alison Ellwood and special guests from the Merry Pranksters..

Cinema Pacific’s Asian Pacific focus this year is on the commercial and independent film production from mainland China. Screenings includes Lu Chuan’s black-and-white anti-war masterpiece, City of Life and Death. Chinese box office hits that will be shown include two films from “China’s Steven Spielberg,” director Feng Xiaogang: Aftershock and If You Are the One.

Special guests will include Zhu Wen and Liu Jiayin, both independent filmmakers working outside mainstream channels whose films express and document social tensions within Chinese society. Liu will be presenting her highly praised digital films Oxhide and Oxhide II, which document daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment.

Wen will show his film Thomas Mao, which comically depicts the relationship between a rural Chinese man and an American backpacker through complex dream layers.

Complimenting the Kesey documentary will be other West Coast films including Utopia in Four Movements, a “live documentary” by San Francisco filmmakers Sam Green and Dave Cerf. Green, whose documentary The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, performs his innovative “live documentary” about the precarious state of the utopian impulse in our perilous world, while Cerf mixes the projected images and musical score.

As part of the new media component of the festival, Helen de Michiel and Sophie Constantinou will present the open space documentary project Lunch Love Community. The web documentaries detail the Berkeley School Lunch Initiative and the action being taken in the Bay Area to spread healthy food to local youth. de Michiel will also lead a Documentary 2.0 workshop on new forms of online documentary production. This event is presented in conjunction with the Oregon Humanties Center’s “Sustenance” theme.

In addition, the “Best of the Northwest Film and Video Festival will,” feature 10 short films made in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

Twelve teams, each made up of of three filmmakers, will have an opportunity to write, shoot and edit short films during the first 72 hours of the festival, in the second annual Adrenaline Film Project. Guided by film directors Rom Alejandro and Scott Prendergast, the teams’ final films will be screened and judged and cash awards and prizes will be given to the three best projects.

The Fringe Festival also offers student filmmakers the opportunity to produce and screen films at Cinema Pacific. UO students were invited to remix images and sounds from Wu Yonggang’s 1934 black-and-white silent film The Goddess. The best entries, selected by a jury of filmmakers and curators, will be displayed within a larger media installation designed by art students in Eugene’s Voyeur Gallery.

The exploration of commercial Chinese film will continue in this year’s inaugural Cinema Pacific Industry Symposium. The afternoon series of conversations and presentations, co-sponsored with the UO School of Journalism and Communication, will explore U.S.-China film business relationships.

Special guests include Terence Chang, producer of John Woo’s Hong Kong, China and Hollywood hit films, including Face/Off, Broken Arrow and Reign of Assassins. A UO alum, Chang will return to Eugene for the first time since his graduation from the UO in the early 1970s.

Also returning to his hometown is David Linde, former co-chair of Universal Pictures and the co-founder of Focus Features. Linde, the executive producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou’s upcoming The Thirteen Flowers of Nanjing will speak in the symposium about making films in both the U.S. and China. Film economist Darrell William Davis from the University of New South Wales is the symposium’s closing speaker.

Guiding Cinema Pacific viewers through the current state of independent filmmaking will be Cinema Pacific’s first Festival Fellow Shelly Kraicer. Kraicer, a renowned Beijing-based film critic and programmer, who will introduce several films, moderate discussions with filmmakers and co-teach a special two-week course on “New Chinese Cinema: From the Sixth to the Digital Generation.”

Cinema Pacific’s opening night will highlight media art in a three-part program at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) on April 6 titled “New Experimental Media: China and Hong Kong.” Hong Kong artist Hung Keung will give a 6 p.m. gallery talk about his video art show, opening at the JSMA on April 5, titled “Chairman Mao Lady Liberty” and “Other Video Works.” Screenings of The Animated Works of Sun Xun and Disorder will follow.

Hung, a guest of the UO Digital Arts program, also has a media installation at the White Box Gallery at the UO campus in Portland.

Cinema Pacific is hosted by the UO Arts and Administration program and UO Academic Extension, with support from University Relations, the Cultural Forum and the Cinema Studies program.

Cinema Pacific Film Festival on April 6th -10th


Faux Film Festival on April 1st - 3rd “We poke fun at stuff!”The seventh annual Faux Film Festival runs from

Friday April 1st through Sunday April 3rd at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy, Portland, OR, 97212).

The Faux Film Festival showcases faux commercials, faux trailers, spoofs, satires, parodies and mocumentaries. This year’s lineup includes three nights of film from the USA, Canada, Israel, Australia, Denmark, and the UK.

Friday April 1st at 7:00pm:Shorts: Faux Commercials, Faux Trailers and movie/TV spoofs.Feature: Bill Plympton’s “Guns on the Clackamas”

Media professionals have more opportunities to pursue their passion with the help of the Oregon Media Production Association’s Media Arts Education Fund Scholarship. The Fund’s objective is to encourage growth and creativity in Oregon’s media production industry by providing financial assistance to those expanding their education and/or careers in a media related field. The Media Arts Education fund will support Oregon students in journalism, film, video, audio, photography, and new media. Scholarships are awarded in three categories: Individual Education Scholarship, Project-Based Scholarship, and Scholastic Program Scholarship.

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Saturday April 2nd at 7:00pm:Shorts: General Satire.Feature: “Multiple Means of Murder”, in Danish with English subtitles. Sunday April 3rd at 7:00pm:Shorts: Science Fiction and Horror spoofs.Feature: “Mutant Swinger from Mars”

For schedule, film list, and more in-faux-mation, please visit www.fauxfilm.com

Tournament. The Final Cut was founded in 2001 by Edward Gustamante as an entertaining approach to fundraising for the Media Arts Education Fund. The yearly golf tournament brings the creative services industry together to support a good cause.

For more information on the scholarships, please go to the www.ompa.org. The application deadline is May 30, 2011. Awards will be presented to recipients at the Final Cut Classic Golf Tournament on July 22nd at the Indian Creek Golf Course in Hood River.

OMPA is the largest nonprofit film, video and multimedia association in Oregon. Since its founding in 1982, OMPA has educated and informed its diverse membership about important industry news and provided forums for networking and professional development.

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A Key to Life: A New Look at Nature’s Great PredatorsBirds, butterflies, beaver and antelope, wildflowers and

frogs — could their survival possibly be connected to top predators like the wolf and cougar? For those who have seldom given thought to the great predators so often missing from the web of life, here is a world of reason to think again. Following in the footsteps of wolves and cougars, and the scientists working to understand their place in the rapidly changing world of nature, award-winning filmmakers Karen and Ralf Meyer of Green Fire Productions have captured the predators’ ongoing drama in their new documentary, Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators.

Lords of Nature has won numerous awards at festivals and screened in 100s of communities nationwide, See www.lordsofnature.org for screening dates and details.

Greg Ives of Portland composed the score for the film and as well did all the post-production audio and the show’s final mix. Karen Meyer, the producer said, “We are really fortunate to have worked with Greg on Lords of Nature. He is a fabulous musician and extremely talented composer for film. His score and mix really made Lords of Nature shine.”

Marshal Arts Motion Graphics of Portland created the creative 2D and 3D graphics featured in Lords of Nature. Shawn and Lisa Marshall know their craft well, “they come up with perfect solutions for our graphic needs, reports Karen Meyer of Green Fire Productions.

Narrated by Peter Coyote, Lords of Nature journeys to the heart of predator country: the Yellowstone plateau; the canyons of Zion; the farm country of northern Minnesota and the rugged open range of central Idaho – all places now resettled by the great beasts society once banished.

Here scientists discover these top carnivores as revitalizing forces of nature, keystone species whose presence in sufficient numbers can dramatically reverse the slow decay of America’s wild West.

In Yellowstone National Park, the filmmakers visit a land inhabited again by wolves after a 70-year absence, and find a chain of life once again flourishing since their return. From stream banks once again cloaked with willow and re-colonizing beavers and songbirds, to wolf leftovers drawing record-setting gatherings of scavengers, scientists find the flowering of Yellowstone magically coinciding with the return of its wolves.

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And in the canyons of Zion, scientists find more of the same, flowers and trees, butterflies, frogs and fish all flourishing under the guardian watch of the cougar.

But what about people, what about the societies who once have felt compelled to exterminate these powerful animals?

The filmmakers traveled to Minnesota, to a land harboring 3,000 wolves — more wolves than any state in the lower 48. Here they meet livestock producers raising sheep and cattle alongside their wild neighbors. They talked with deer hunters who view their fellow predators with caution and respect. In Idaho they found a groundbreaking collaboration among ranchers, wildlife managers and conservationists testing non-lethal predator control.

Filmmaker Karen Meyer states, “What I learned while making Lords of Nature is that the importance of top predators goes beyond the impact they have on their prey. Top predators affect all wildlife and the entire landscape – they are a critical component to the health of our ecosystems. I was equally impressed with what ranchers and livestock producers are doing to adjust their operations and management practices in order to avoid conflicts with predators.”


The Ultimate Ride awarded at the Water Walker Film Festival

Beloit International Film Festival

Director Erich Lyttle is proud to announce that the film The Ultimate Ride: Steve Fisher has been awarded Best of Festival honors at the Water Walker Film Festival in Quebec, Canada. The film was the second of a trilogy produced by Portland talent for Red Bull and Lionsgate.

By C.K. Lichenstein IIIn February I had the honor of returning to the 6th

Annual Beloit International Film Festival (affectionately known as BIFF) for a fourth year in a row not only as a screening filmmaker but as an honorary co-chair. BIFF is a filmmaker’s film festival and while you may not meet potential distributors, you will meet filmmakers from around the world and be well taken care of. They screen hundreds of features and shorts, usually more than once. Most of the venues are smaller, allowing them to except so many films and screen them so many times, and are not typical venues, but the audiences are attentive, interested and usually provide some fantastic questions afterwards. Beloit residents definitely WANT us there and let us know constantly throughout the festival.

It was the third award for the film as it had garnered recognition at Banff and X Dance film festivals.

Renowned kayaker Steve Fisher brings together a crew of big-water pros who experience the force of Africa’s mighty Zambezi River at record levels. Steeped in the brotherhood of kayaking, Fisher and his crew of paddlers find the ride of their lives while helping the Zambian community to face up to the river spirits who control their destiny.

The Executive Producer on the production was Scott Bradfield. And local talent who contributed to the film include: Director/Writer- Erich Lyttle; DP-David Unitan; Creative Director/Music Supervisor- Sarah Henderson; Writer- Billy Miller; Coordinating Producer- Steve Ogle; Music Score- John Askew; Sound Sweetening- Jason Edwards; Graphics- Transport; Musicians- Itawe, Matt Butler, Carcrashlander, Wasted Tape, Stiff Wiff

For more info. visit: www.theultimateride.tv.

Originally the festival took place in January, opposite Sundance, and when I first attended in 2008 it was brutally cold. I had only read good things about the festival and when Cathedral Park got in, I decided to go and have (obviously) never regretted that decision. I was happy that the following year they moved the festival to February which is balmy by comparison.

Besides Cathedral Park, I have screened several other films I’ve produced but this year, for the first time, I was premiering two productions, David Walker’s feature My Dinner with A.J. and Vincent Caldoni’s short film Certainties. The screenings were well attended and the Q&A’s, especially around My Dinner with A.J., were incredibly lively. My extra duties as honorary co-chair were not much more then one’s normal duties as a screening filmmaker, I just had to present some awards and do several interviews, about two more then I did the previous year. I did make sure to put my best foot forward and talk up the fest that has become my home away from home.

Currently BIFF is already accepting submissions for the 2012 festival. I highly recommend you submit your film, via withoutabox and if you get in, try and make it out there. You won’t regret it! For more information visit www.beloitfilmfest.org.

Photograph by Desre Pickers

From left to right, Honorary Co-Chair and Seattle based Filmmaker Jack Bennett, Festival Director Rod Beaudoin, and Honorary Co-Chair and Portland based Producer/Filmmaker C.K. Lichenstein II.

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