AIFF has begun planning for a 2024 festival Oct. 2-6, and hopes to raise an additional $300,000 to finance it through a combination of submission fees, memberships, sponsorships, advertising, grants, donations and ticket sales.
Allee Gustafson: This year’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival is extra special as it is back in person for the first time in five years, providing a chance for Southern Oregon folks to come together and be inspired by the powerful films and the collective excitement and advocacy of the community.
A new film by Ashland’s Dan Brown, “Your Lucky Day,” tells the tale of a high-stakes robbery gone wrong. A special one-time showing at the Varsity Theatre in Ashland is set for 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15. Proceeds benefit Film Southern Oregon, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote the region’s film and media community.
A controversial film about newly discovered theories of racial and cultural injustice premiered at the Varsity Theatre to a sold-out audience Saturday night. The film “Origin” was written and directed by Ava DuVernay and chronicles the “tragedy and triumph” of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.”
“SOMM: Cup of Salvation,” produced and edited by former Ashland resident Jackson Myers, who also was the film’s cinematographer, will be screened Saturday at Grizzly Peak Winery.
After recently launching a $150,000 fundraising campaign goal to help keep the film reels rolling for the Ashland Independent Film Festival, an Ashland nonprofit, new leadership said this week they are more than halfway — raising $88,000 and counting — toward reaching the goal.
Southern Oregon University’s Digital Cinema program last week launched a fundraising campaign to raise $18,000 to help pay for two signature projects. The crowdfunding campaign is only open for contributions through Thursday, Nov. 30.
KS Wild Side: The Fall Film Series will showcase two films that explore the origins of environmental activism from a policy standpoint and from a front-line advocate’s standpoint: “Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty” and “Sisters in Arms,” which features Julia Butterfly Hill.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival has added two additional films to closing night slate of films, along with additional appearances by special guest filmmakers and speakers.
When Southern Oregon University senior Tabitha Wheeler first began crafting a capstone project for her Digital Cinema degree, the 23-year-old didn’t know what the plot of her pilot episode of a short film would be about — but she knew it needed to have a sword fight and the storytelling would follow.
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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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