The Ashland Independent Film Festival is moving forward on two fronts this fall: keeping audiences engaged with a lively monthly screening series and welcoming longtime programmer Aura Johnson as its new director of programming.
John Compton Schweiger, a former Ashland businessman who built a chain of movie theaters across small and mid-sized towns in the West, bringing big-screen entertainment to communities far from the multiplex sprawl, died on July 30 at his home in La Fayette, Georgia. He was 81.
ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum will host a free screening of a movie on Sunday, July 27 that looks at the power of observation.
Wanting to escape the Rouge Valley heat? There’s no snow, but the Mt. Ashland Ski Area is offering a summer season of live music, movies and more.
You might say that domestic, comedic dramatist and playwright Del Shores’ successful life as a writer for stage, film and TV is the result of a series of crazy mishaps, which led to Shores becoming one of America’s funniest theater writers and strongest advocates for emerging LGBTQ+ writers.
The crown jewel? The Oregon premiere of “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady,” a poignant tribute to Catherine E. Coulson — the legendary “Twin Peaks” enigma and longtime Oregon Shakespeare Festival icon — whose spirit seemed to flicker from every frame and corner of the theater during its showings.
To the delight of many Ashland cinephiles, the 24th Ashland Independent Film Festival opened Thursday, April 24 at the Varsity Theatre in Ashland.
Ashland-based writer-director Gary Lundgren will mentor student-filmmakers at Southern Oregon University this spring during the Digital Cinema Department’s innovative “Crew Experience” course, according to a SOU news release. “Crew Experience,” launched in 2022, has given SOU’s Digital Cinema students a chance each year to work on and complete a full-fledged film project.
The documentary “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink” will screen for free in Ashland on Thursday, April 10, in the Southern Oregon University Recital Hall, followed by a panel discussion with media leaders on the state of journalism in Oregon and beyond.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 5, for the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Set for Thursday through Sunday, April 24-27, AIFF will showcase independent films from around the world on the screens of Ashland’s Varsity Theatre. Tickets can be purchased online at ashlandfilm.org and in person at the theater.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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