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.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival announced Monday the nonprofit’s six on-screen film lineup as a documentary showcase coming April 14-20 to the Varsity Theatre. Each Varsity feature will be paired with a short documentary directed by a local filmmaker.
Ashland.news hosts a screening of “Storm Lake” on at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 16, in the SOU Science Building auditorium. Film producer and co-director Beth Levison, will join the audience by Zoom for a follow-up discussion. Levinson and Ashland.news board member Tod Davies will discuss the film showing on JPR’s Jefferson Exchange at 9:10 a.m. Tuesday, March 14.
The online Wild & Scenic Film Festival brings together community to celebrate KS Wild’s work to protect the Klamath-Siskiyou wildlands and restore clean water in the Rogue Basin.
Ashland Independent Film Festival has announced the nonprofit organization plans to return to showing films on the big screen this spring after going nearly entirely online during the pandemic. AIFF will present a “film showcase of curated current independent cinema” — a festival but a “mini-festival,” according to organizers.
“The Cymbeline Project” will be presented in 10 digital episodes, each led by what Oregon Shakespeare Festival describes as “an iconoclastic slate of lead artists, whose practices range in form from collage to puppetry to VR.”
Ashland independent film studio Joma Films has completed principal photography on a new feature film about a murder in a small Oregon town and a local boxer charged with committing the crime.
More than 60 feature films and six short film compilations are in the offing for the Ashland Independent Film Festival’s 21st season that will run virtually April 1-10. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 18.
Roberta Munroe, the new artistic director of the Ashland Independent Film Festival, has an extensive background in film and film-making.
Beginning in October 2001 at Ashland’s Varsity Theatre, the Ashland Independent Film Festival has steadily grown to become one of the standout independent, non-studio film exhibits throughout the country.
Ashlanders and other Rogue Valley residents take part in a monthly video call with residents of Ukraine. Ivan Muts of Ukraine said during Friday’s call his country is grateful for all the support from the United States and other countries.
Obituary: Hermine “Helena” Louise Lentfer Sohl passed peacefully, surrounded by loving family on March 4, 2023 in Ashland. A celebration of her life will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 27, at Ashland Congregational United Church of Christ, 717 Siskiyou Blvd.
The federal government is sending nearly $50 million to Oregon nonprofits, counties and other entities to address homelessness, including $54,778 for Options for Helping Residents of Ashland (OHRA).
Semitrailers and other vehicles awaiting the reopening of Interstate 5 are lining the highway and some surface streets in Ashland on Tuesday. Southbound traffic on the road was diverted off the highway starting about 7 a.m. due to severe winter conditions in Northern California.
Training is available for those interested in helping others prepare tax returns, a free service offered by the AARP Foundation Tax Aide service currently offering help on Wednesdays and Fridays at The Grove in Ashland.
Pepper Trail: “This stretch of Interstate-5 in Southern Oregon is a known killing field for wildlife and dangerous for motorists. The highway cuts through a critical connection for wildlife moving between two mountain ranges and home to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, which is the only national monument specifically established for the protection of its rich biodiversity.”
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