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.
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.
Obituary: Margaret McCartney died Dec. 4 at 83. Memorial services are planned for 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 11, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 N. 2nd St., Ashland.
Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has announced plans to offer free opioid overdose reversal kits to middle and high schools throughout the state. Ashland Superintendent Samuel Bogdanove shared his support for the increase in availability of Narcan, the brand name for a device that delivers naloxone, to Oregon schools, including in Ashland.
With local rescue groups still overflowing with cats and kittens, those wishing to bring home a new family member for the holidays will have opportunities to do so on two upcoming December weekends. On Saturday, Dec. 9, Ashland-based Friends of the Animals (formerly Friends of the Animal Shelter) will partner with Feral Cat Advocacy (FCA), Melly Cat Rescue, and Hero Tails Animal Sanctuary for a Feline Fair at the Rogue Valley Mall.
Dozens of area residents ushered in a spirited first night of Hanukkah on Thursday, gathering on the Ashland Plaza late Thursday afternoon to light the first flames on the menorah.
Charles “Al” Huth: We can expand our potential to build true knowledge by altering what we spend time focusing on in our daily lives. In short, search for the Truth.
Herbert Rothschild: Apparently, Kissinger insisted on recording practically every word he said. His aides later commented that he needed to keep track of which lie he told to whom.
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