Small movies, big crowds: The 2024 McMinnville Short Film Festival exceeds expectations
After its biggest and most successful year yet, the wine country film festival looks toward a bright and expansive future.
After its biggest and most successful year yet, the wine country film festival looks toward a bright and expansive future.
The former Oregon resident says the festival, which starts Thursday, is unusual in its focus on celebrating filmmakers and making connections.
From the glories of Movie Madness to a flock of festivals to the tale of Will Vinton’s lost dreams, it was a very good film year in Oregon.
The 11th annual event returns to an in-person format with an epic vibe and changes afoot for next year.
A “film festival for filmmakers”, MSFF brings together national and local artists with an array of culturally diverse screenings, events, and gatherings
The daughter of Stanley Kramer has a film, “NAKUSA,” in next month’s festival.
And in Salem, the Hallie Ford Museum showcases Northwest photography, as well as Arvie Smith’s paintings exploring race and identity.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A year into shutdown, signs of revival: Stimulus aid for the arts, museums reopening, a theater with an audience of 1 to 5.
Last month’s all-virtual festival receives rave reviews, and we tell you which films took home the honors.
The 10-day festival starts this week, bringing 127 films, none longer than 20 minutes, to the comfort of your home.
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Documentaries play a big role in the festival, with particular focus on the environment and Native Americans.
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The Bend filmmaker talks about ‘Tutu Grande’ in the upcoming McMinnville Short Film Festival.
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Many events are canceled or scaled back for 2021, as gathering in crowds remains unlikely, but it’s not all bad news.
The ups, downs, disasters, trends, outrages, and triumphs of Oregon arts & culture in a tortuous year.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A culture clash over the past; a museum reopens; photos, films, books & sounds.
Yamhill County calendar: A “season like no other” on campus, plus a watercolor show and film festival preview.
Leanne Grabel and Breads & Roses, FisherPoets and the song of the sea. Plus dance, drama, sight, sound.
From horse-racing to Newberg’s 99W drive-in, there’s a lot to like in this weekend’s McMinnville Short Film Festival.
The Yamhill County calendar also includes new gallery shows and jazz by the Christopher Brown Quartet.
The new year rolls in with a little of everything: gallery exhibitions, TEDx talks, readings, and music.
An interview with Justin Zimmerman of the McMinnville Short Film Festival.
It’s a busy month in Yamhill County: art openings, author readings, theater, and music.
It’s one of those weeks where there’s so much going on, we have just enough space to squeeze in enough about everything for you to click ahead and decide whether to investigate further. Let’s go. THE CHEHALEM CULTURAL CENTER IN NEWBERG has
The 8th Annual McMinnville Short Film Festival was too big a meal to consume entirely last weekend, but I did get to a screening in the largest auditorium at Coming Attractions’ multiplex, which was pretty full Sunday afternoon. Between that and watching
On any given day, Coming Attractions Theatres’ multiplex in McMinnville screens 10 films. But this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10, in the theater’s 208-seat auditorium, you can see 50 – and you don’t have to sit for 18 hours straight
There’s a buzz in McMinnville concerning an 84-year-old house on the corner of Baker and Northeast Seventh Streets, which marks almost the exact center of town. In the last decade or so, it’s functioned as a florist, a salon and a home-goods
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