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Still From EOFF 2020 film A Good Man

A GOOD MAN Director Anthony Gainer Living in a time where abusive fathers and bullying are common place, a boy defends that he did what was right. Always searching for the right way to live, the realities of life surround…

Toprak

Still From EOFF 2020 film Toprak

Directed by Sevgi Hirschhäuser TOPRAK is the dramatic story of a simple family in rural Turkey dealing with poverty, family traditions, and religious heritage. Since the death of his parents, the teenage Burak has lived with his uncle Cemil and…

Ten Minutes to Midnight

A still image from EOFF 2020 Film Ten Minutes to Midnight

Directed by Erik Bloomquist In Ten Minutes to Midnight, Caroline Williams returns to the DJ booth for the first time since her star-making turn as Stretch in 1986’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Williams plays Amy Marlowe, a veteran late…

Revolution Launderette

Still From EOFF 2020 film Revolution Laundrette

In Tokyo, a young man Tomo, dogged by misfortune, sets out to beat his existence to its next punchline, together with Hiroko who obsesses over a stranger’s old scrapbook. They agree to head into all the encounters that come their…

RAF

Still From EOFF 2020 film RAF

Directed by Harry Cepka A woman’s deadbeat life changes when she meets her new BFF. A unique take on female friendship and the influence of class on contemporary relationships. Raf (Grace Glowicki) is facing eviction from her shabby basement apartment…

The Lure of This Land

Still From EOFF 2020 film The Lure of This Land EOFF 2020

Directed by Alexandra A Lexton The Lure of this Land is an exploration of why people leave the places they know and love. What are they looking for? And what do they find? Filmmaker Alexandra Lexton came to Belize and…

The Long Breakup

Still From EOFF 2020 film The Long Breakup

Directed by Katya Soldak The Long Breakup is a feature length documentary about Ukraine’s attempt to escape Russia’s embrace, leave its Soviet past behind and become a truly independent country. Katya Soldak, a Ukrainian-American filmmaker now living in Brooklyn, tells…

I Blame Society

Still From EOFF 2020 film I Blame Society

Directed by Gillian Wallace Horvat Gillian, a struggling filmmaker, is told by two close friends that with her cunning, intelligence and ability to rationalize whatever she wants to believe in she would make a good murderer. This innocent jokey remark…

From My River, With Love

Still From EOFF 2020 film From My River, With Love

Directed by Zach Stoltzfus “From My River, With Love” is a meandering series of intimate portraits exploring the vibrancy and brevity of existence. From the humid summer lakes of Alabama to the frigid mountain rivers of Wyoming, milestones lapse sitting…

Freeland

Still From EOFF 2020 film Freeland

Devi has been breeding legendary pot strains for decades on the remote homestead she built herself. But when cannabis is legalized, she suddenly finds herself fighting for her survival. In a tour-de-force performance, Krisha Fairchild (Devi) brings the timely story…

Blood Moon

Still From EOFF 2020 film Blood Moon

Directed by Vikram Dhawan A young man travels back to the city of his past and has many separate encounters with old friends lost in a strange night. He has come to meet the love he left behind and ask…

A Life’s Work

Still From EOFF 2020 film A Life's Work

Directed by David Licata Filmed over 15 years in locations throughout the U.S., A Life’s Work is a documentary about people engaged with projects they will not complete in their lifetime, projects that could have a positive, profound global effect.…

A Dim Valley

A Dim Valley EOFF 2020

Directed by Brandon Colvin Three scientists uncover unexpected mysteries in the Appalachian forest. A curmudgeonly biologist and his slacker graduate assistants muddle their way through a summer research project. Deep in the Appalachian woods, they encounter a trio of mystical…

Oregon Cultural Trust Awards Cultural Support

Coronavirus Relief Fund Cultural Support (CRFCS) grant awards totaling $25.7 million will be distributed to 621 cultural organizations across Oregon through a partnership between the Oregon Cultural Trust and its County and Tribal Cultural Coalitions. The funds, allocated to the…

October, and beyond.

EOFF 2020 Postcard - Looking at things Differently

It’s been a while! We sure hope you are well and that this crazy time that we find ourselves in has brought to you new insight, perspective, ideas, and TONS of online film. If you are like us, you’ve gone…

THE BC RAMBLERS

Known as the BC Ramblers, (for Brandt, Boyer, Champe and Cobler,) the group plays traditional Bluegrass music. The Ramblers have played together for several years (sometimes as a 5-piece group with a fiddle,) at various events around the Northwest. The band members are Duane…

YEAR ELEVEN • October 22-24. #EOFF2020

EOFF2020 Film Festival Promotion

Eastern Oregon’s premiere film and music event has started its eleventh season with a CALL FOR ENTRIES which opened February 1. Film submission must be received by June 12, 2020. Submit your film filmfreeway.com/eofilmfest Program Tour EOFF has received a…

Sun Blood Stories

Sun Blood Stories at EOFF

Sun Blood Stories is dreamy, aware, personal, open, fuzzed out, and loud af. Sun Blood Stories is a mass of harmonic noise distilled into occasionally delicate, but always haunting songs. The band is comprised of three (3) equal members: Amber…

Official Film Selections EOFF2019

official selections EOFF2019

Eastern Oregon Film Festival is delighted to announce the official film selections for the TENTH annual three-day event held October 24-26 in La Grande, Oregon. EOFF’s programming staff received a record number of submitted films this year spanning a wide…

Nick Delffs

Nick Delffs is a seeker. He’d never identify himself that way. He’s unassuming and self-effacing, careful to discuss song meanings and biographical details without indulgence or melodrama. Delffs cut his teeth playing basement shows in Portland a dozen years ago,…

Sons of Guns

Alternative rock group and Eastern Oregon Film Festival alumni Sons of Guns will return to the HQ stage this year, having last appeared at EOFF 2010. The four-piece of Seth Johnson, E.J. Sander, Mike Surber and Gregory Rawlins will play…

Methods Body

METHODS BODY (Portland, OR, USA) creates original music for modified keys, drums, and electronics using self-made tuning systems, involuted polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. Together, Luke Wyland and John Niekrasz have been pushing the bounds of rhythm and melody…

Federale

Federale is a seven-piece ensemble based in Portland, OR. Spearheaded by longtime Brian Jonestown Massacre bassist Collin Hegna, the band was conceived as an outlet to channel inspiration from ‘60s & ‘70s European soundtracks, particularly those from Italy made famous…

FESTIVAL CELEBRATES TEN YEARS

Eastern Oregon Film Festival will celebrate its tenth year of programming from October 24-26, 2019 in La Grande, Oregon. This anniversary year will take EOFF back to its roots. With the loss of their long-running partner, The Granada Cinema, EOFF…

‘Artifishal’ special screening

Eastern Oregon Film Festival is proud to present a FREE SCREENING of Patagonia’s latest documentary film, ARTIFISHAL. Join the organizers of Eastern Oregon Film Festival for a special screening and discussion about the importance of healthy ecosystems and wild and scenic rivers.…

Path to Liberty Music Series

Eastern Oregon Film Festival will begin its fundraising journey towards landing at The Liberty Theatre in 2020, by hosting three music events over three months at hq, 112 Depot Street in  downtown La Grande. The series will raise funds toward…

Historic Liberty Theatre Tour

Historic Liberty Theatre Tour Saturday, October 20 • HQ • 11am La Grande’s historic Liberty Theatre is well on the way to becoming a future EOFF venue. Take a moment to tour this project and hear its history, envision the…

ORA Panel & Discussion

ORA Panel & Discussion Friday, October 19th • Granada • 2pm For the communities on the tropical island paradise of Kirabati it’s already too real. Villages are being abandoned, and inhabitants sent away never to return, a fate they never…

#EOFF2018 Musical Guests

NINTH ANNUAL EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL AFTERPARTY LINE-UP Eastern Oregon Film Festival is excited to announce it’s ninth annual musical guests. October 18-20 at festival hq in La Grande, Oregon – enjoy after-parties each night with live music from a…

Catskills

Catskills Ladies and Gentlemen, Fawns and kids… step children of forlorn mountain snakes and hep-cats to boot–those from one to ninety-two and lifelong bingo players– nomadic tumblers, too scattered for identification and the sky blue collars with their grinding nostrils.…

Sun Blood Stories

Sun Blood Stories Sun Blood Stories is a mass of harmonic noise distilled into occasionally delicate, but always haunting songs. The band is comprised of three (3) equal members: Amber Pollard, Ben Kirby, and Jon Fust; this current arrangement is…

Chanti Darling

Chanti Darling Chanticleer Trü would like you to know that “RNB ain’t no joke.” As frontman of Portland, OR retrofuturist electro-soul adepts Chanti Darling, Trü drinks deeply from the sacred founts of Disco, Boogie Funk, and the dizzying universe of…

Healing Gems

Healing Gems “Healing Gems are a psychedelic band, but not in the yoga posing, incense burning, sanctimonious kind of way. They’re a drink of LSD-tainted punch at a small town dance. A pot brownie picnic at a community park. Scratchy…

Máscaras

Máscaras “SOUNDS LIKE: The house band for the end of the world playing the last basement party on Earth.” – Matt Singer, Willamette Week Máscaras is the psychedelic instrumental trio of Papi Fimbres (PAPI), Carlos Segovia (DC) and Theo Craig (T-KRAY). It’s…

NINE YEARS!??? Yup.

EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL Official Selections for the NINTH ANNUAL — #EOFF2018.  Eastern Oregon Film Festival is proud to announce its Official Selections for the 2018 Festival. An intimate gathering nestled in downtown La Grande OR, #EOFF2018 will feature film screenings, special…

2017 Short Films

2017 Official Short Films Borscht Diez Shorts Compilation 2017, USA, 80 mins, Multiple Genres Q&A with Borscht Representative 80 minutes of shorts created by the strange, beautiful, hilarious masterminds of Miami’s Borscht Corp. Call Your Father (dir. Jordan Firstman) 2017, USA,…

State of Wonder LIVE @ EOFF

SATURDAY, OCT. 21— HQ — NOON

State of Wonder is OPB’s weekly radio show about arts and creativity. Armed with curiosity and questions, we meet the artists and explore the work being made across Oregon and Southwest Washington, from big museum shows to DIY basement productions. For our live taping at the Eastern Oregon Film Festival, we’ll sit down with festival organizers and several visiting filmmakers to talk about what they’re screening, what they’re watching, and what exactly an Albino Bumblebee is.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

How a Story Becomes a Movie with Jonathan Raymond

Portland-based author Jonathan Raymond’s first novel brought his work to the attention of Kelly Reichardt and together they made four movies, including MEEK’S CUTOFF and NIGHT MOVES. Join Raymond to discuss how a story becomes a movie in this insightful conversation and screenplay workshop.

Kory Quinn

Kory Quinn (Portland, Ore.) SATURDAY • OCTOBER 21 • AFTER PARTY @ hq About Featuring Elwood, Joey Carper, Jay Colton Hughes and David Lipkind. From Big City Beats to High Lonesome Country Blues he “Puts The True In Troubadour.” Kory…

The Depot Street Syncopators

The Depot Street Syncopators (La Grande, Ore.) About The Depot Street Syncopators formed over a decade ago to bring swinging horn-heavy New Orleans style funk, latin, jazz, and blues to rural Eastern Oregon. The group’s initial plan was to play…

SISTERS

SISTERS (Seattle, Washington) FRIDAY • OCTOBER 20 • AFTER PARTY @ hq About “A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having” is a quote famously attributed to Author Emma Goldman. These words could be the motto of Emily…

Holiday Friends

Holiday Friends (Astoria, Oregon) FRIDAY • OCTOBER 20 • AFTER PARTY @ hq About For far too long, Holiday Friends has been in a state of flux. While a trio of musicians—singer/guitarist Scott Fagerland, his multi-instrumentalist brother Jon, and bassist…

After Party Music

#EOFF2017 After Party Music Eastern Oregon Film Festival is excited to bring a diverse array of musical offerings to our eighth annual flagship event held October 19-21 in La Grande, Oregon. Thursday, October 19 after consumption of the opening night film…

Official Film Selections Announced

#EOFF2017 Announces Film Selections Eastern Oregon Film Festival is proud to announce its Official Selections for the 2017 Festival. Spread across five venues (including a 48hr. online program at Filmmaker Magazine), EOFF will run October 19-21, 2017 in La Grande,…

EOFF Outdoor Summer Screening

August 16 • Start talking about #EOFF2017 On Wednesday August 16th join EOFF members, fans, and friends at Side A Brewing for a back alley special screening, sneak peek opportunities, and start participating in the hub bub that is #EOFF2017.…