Month April 2015

EOFF2015 ANNOUNCEMENT #5: THE FEATURES

•• It just keeps coming, people. We’re honored to introduce this year’s collection of 60+ minute films—narrative features, documentaries, or those experiments somewhere in-between. Through a range of styles and cinematic genre, this year’s collection tackles subjects as diverse as…

EOFF2015 ANNOUNCEMENT #4: ONLINE FILMS

•• We’re excited to announce our OFFICIAL 2015 ONLINE SELECTIONS! We’re collaborating with filmmakers who have agreed to share their works online during the EOFF weekend. It’s exiciting not only because this enables a remote festival component, but because it…

2015 ONLINE SELECTIONS

IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (dir. Sam Kuhn) Technical Info 2014 / USA / 15min / Experimental Short Synopsis A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but…

EOFF2015 ANNOUNCEMENT #2: THE MUSIC

From all directions, this year’s musical guests will create the soundscape to the sixth annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival. On Thursday (May 7) come visit the Art Center for a local kick-off show with HAM n CHEESE and Pendleton’s JDK&EOPB. Friday (May 8)…

HAM n CHEESE

There is a band as local as it gets, who really ham it up in a very cheesy way- Ham n Cheese. They play a rambunctious mix of rock,county, punk,show tunes, you name it. They are- Hard knuckled, extreme outdoorsman,…

BIJOUX

“bijoux sings, nested gently in some infinite and horizontal plane. Both a ripple and a void, she releases her rounded pearls to skitter outward and bathe you in loneliness. she was known previously as Grandma Kelsey, and is excited to…

HILLFOLK NOIR

Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir is a trio of neo-traditionalists playing traditional music on traditional instruments for non-traditional times. They call it Junkerdash, and it’s a sound brewed from folk, bluegrass, punk, string-band blues and…

OLD DEATH WHISPER

Old Death Whisper is a cocktail of dirty western roots music and country tinged parlor tunes. ODW loves good old country and folk music of early America. Sea shanties, spaghetti westerns (which we realize are Italian), railroad songs, road movies,…

LIKE A VILLAIN

In early 2010, Holland Andrews began a solo project behind the alias of Like a Villain. She pulls her influences from notable minimalist composers such as Arvo Pärt, contemporary vocalists including Diamanda Galás, and modern experimental musicians like Björk, and…

YEAH GREAT FINE

Yeah Great Fine. Something we all say when we just don’t care. Perhaps a comment on the general malaise of our generation (ourselves included). Mostly, an ironically spiritless label for a band that is anything but. Yeah Great Fine was…

EOFF2015 ANNOUNCEMENT #1

SIXTH ANNUAL EASTERN OREGON  FILM FESTIVAL Eastern Oregon Film Festival is kicking off its sixth edition on Thursday, May 7, and will run through Saturday, May 9. The opening night feature is Guy Reid’s stunning feature documentary, PLANETARY. It will…

HOLIDAY FRIENDS

Although Astoria, Oregon is best known to multiple generations of pop-culture observers as the cinematic setting of the ‘80s cult classic The Goonies, the rugged riverfront city now has another distinction: as the home of the fab new pop-rock combo…