Upon completion of Dryland, a feature documentary by WIF Portland member Sue Arbuthnot, with partner Richard Wilhelm, was called “The Best Movie About Coming of Age and Crashing Combines You’ll Ever See” and “a bittersweet and beautiful new film” by Modern Farmer magazine. Sue and Richard premiered the film at the 2014 Big Sky Documentary…

Women in Film is pleased to announce a long awaited benefit concert to raise funds to make The Pearl – Short Film!  The Pearl is a narrative short film about a brave and handsome PRINCE who is faced with a cruel decision. The EVIL ONE (Jonathan Hicks) has trapped the soul of the beautiful PRINCESS (Jasmin…

The Documentary Summit is pleased to announce that Portlandia producer David Cress will be moderating the Distribution of Your Story panel at 9:30am on May 9th. The panel will feature Collective Eye Films and WIF-PDX member Amanda Elder. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with other top pros in the Portland film scene. Go to http://www.documentarysummit.com/portland-documentary-summit/ for tickets.…

Next month, the Women in Film and Television International Summit is taking place in Pittsburgh, PA. It’s a weekend long event featuring lots of great speakers, that you can read about here. The organization just sent us some exciting news that we wanted to pass along to you. Catherine Hardwicke, director of such films as…

Variety magazine recently called Director Beth Harrington’s newest music documentary, The Winding Stream,   “an impressively researched and deftly crafted feature that will find an appreciative audience through exposure in home screen platforms and regional fest screenings.”     In addition, the film received a Best of the Rock Fest’s Music Movie Pictures mention from Rolling Stone magazine. The honor came in shortly after…

Join many of Portland’s top non-fiction professionals as they discuss the important issues surrounding the industry. Topics include: storytelling to help raise money, storytelling in production, transmedia storytelling, branded and advocacy storytelling and new distribution models. Come network and get inspired! Presenters (more to be added): Irene Taylor Brodsky: Vermillion Pictures Jon Betz: Collective Eye…

This class will establish a common vocabulary between directors/producers/project managers and editors/animators. Producer/editor Tracy Dethlefs and editor/animator Goldie Jones discuss basic post-production terminology and asset needs, as well as how to streamline communication about creative concepts, providing detailed and specific feedback, working with small budgets, and meeting tight deadlines. Rather than focusing on the technical,…

Earlier this year, the WIF board conducted a survey to see what our members really wanted from the WIF membership. One activity that came up often was “Connection with other local organizations.” Well, this summer WIF members have and opportunity to do just that! Every summer, local nonprofit Media Institute for Social Change holds a…

This is a great opportunity for folks willing to relocate to NYC (or already live there!). CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES is a nonprofit film fund dedicated to supporting women nonfiction filmmakers whose diverse voices and dynamic storytelling have the power to catalyze change, at home and around the globe. Click here for the full Chicken…

Our neighbors to the north, Women in Film Seattle, have partnered with Reel Grrls (a non-profit organization dedicated to providing media education to underprivileged girls) to present a workshop that may be of interest to WIF PDX members! Media Delivery Systems & Distribution with Gretchen Burger is a primer on video compression, providing students with…