Portland Film Festival

  • Movie News

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2022, Presented by FilmFreeway

Moviemaker Kevin T. Morales, whose ‘90s high school comedy Generation Wrecks is coming soon, tweeted something recently that we strongly…

2 years ago
  • Podcasts

Portland Film Festival’s Joshua Leake on Innovating Through the Pandemic — and Drawing Ideas From Other Festivals

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/joshua-leake-portland-film-festival Portland Film Festival co-founder Joshua Leake is happy to share credit. Point to any of the recent innovations by…

3 years ago
  • Spring 2019

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2019

Film festivals require a strategy. It's accepted as gospel among independents that a feature film is the result of dogged…

5 years ago
  • Annual Lists

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018

Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50 Film Festivals Worth the…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Portland Film Festival 2017 Preview: Co-Founder Josh Leake Teases Highlights, Diverse Programming, and More

With this year's edition of the Portland Film Festival kicking off tomorrow, we spoke with co-founder and executive director Josh…

6 years ago
  • Acting

Good and Bad Seeds: How Reenacting Crimes for the Vancouver PD Helped Me Grow My Indie Pot Thriller

As a struggling actor in my early twenties my agent hooked me up with a gig acting for the local…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, 2015

Was it worth it? Indie film, by definition, resides on the margins. It’s a medium of miracles, of squeezing so…

9 years ago
  • Festivals

Art House Convergence 2015: Conference Pumps Blood into Indie Theaters

The Art House Convergence (AHC) began nine years ago, when the Sundance Institute invited 12 theaters to participate in their…

9 years ago
  • Festivals

Rip City Rendezvous: Portland Film Festival Writes its Own Narrative

When Portland Film Festival director Josh Leake called me to say he wanted my first independent feature to debut as…

9 years ago
  • Fall 2014
  • Festivals

The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2014

Our annual list of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful cinematic celebrations: the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World.…

9 years ago
  • Articles
  • blog-test

Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Big Cities: #8. Portland

It's MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our…

10 years ago
  • Festival Spotlight Friday
  • Festivals

Festival Spotlight Friday: Portland Film Festival is the Artist Colony of Your Dreams by MM Editors

This week for MovieMaker's Spotlight we're celebrating a film festival in a town which guests rave about for its beautiful…

11 years ago