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…
VIEWERS CHOICE AWARDS ** BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE RAF Director – Harry Cepka ** BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE A LIFE’S WORK Director – David Licata ** BEST NARRATIVE SHORT IMMORTAL Director – Natalie Metzger & Robert Allaire ** BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT RECLAMATION:…
La Grande, Ore – Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be celebrating its eleventh year of independent film and music programming VIA La Grande, Oregon on October 22-24, 2020. This year EOFF joins a trend that we are all becoming more…
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…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will share the details of its eleventh annual program via a virtual ‘Sneak Peek’ event on the evening of Wednesday September 16. At 7:00pm, guests will be able to log in, buy a pass, and watch…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be celebrating its eleventh year of independent film and music programming VIA La Grande, Oregon on October 22-24, 2020. #EOFF2020 Festival Pass Get your all access, all weekend pass for our eleventh year of film.…
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…
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…
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…
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. You should still watch the film 😉 It’s been 35 years since The Goonies audiences first went in search of treasure with a lovable band of kids from Astoria into the caves beneath the northern…
“We are proud to announce the ‘winners’ of #EOFF2019! Through conversation with members, artists, and the community, as well as some good ol’ fashioned eavesdropping, we have once again done our best to determine those films that resonated the most…
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…
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…
View a list of all short film selections for #EOFF2019.
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,…
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 (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 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…
dir. Milena Pastreich
2019, USA, 81:00, Nonfiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
dir. Jesse Alk
2019, USA, 76:57, Nonfiction
dir. Andrew Hevia
2019, USA, 01:08:32, Nonfiction
*Editor in Attendance
dir. Taryn Southern, Elena Gaby
2019, USA, 90:00, Nonfiction
* Filmmaker in Attendance
dir. Sarah Kerruish & Matt Maude
2018, USA, 92:00, Nonfiction
dir. Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer
2018, USA, 85:00, Fiction
dir. Aaron Zeghers & Lewis Bennett
2019, USA, 50:28, Nonfiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
dir. Lara Jean Gallagher
2019, USA, 86:00, Fiction
dir. Greg Emetaz
2019, USA, 90:00, Fiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
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…
dir. Gavin Baird
2019, Canada, 63:24 mins, Fiction
*World Premiere * Filmmaker in Attendance
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.…
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…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will celebrate its tenth year of programming from October 24-26, 2019. #EOFF2019 is now open for submission. Filmmakers hoping to participate should visit FILMFREEWAY.COM/EOFILMFEST for details and to submit. The festival is looking for feature and…
#EOFF2018 (Un)official Awards “Once again, it brings us great pleasure to announce the ‘winners’ of #EOFF2018! The selections here have been determined through an informal process that gauged audience response, general interest, laughter, word of mouth and late night conversations.…
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 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…
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…
2018 Online Program In keeping with tradition and growing our mission to provide access to independent film outside of The Grande Ronde Valley, Eastern Oregon Film Festival as teamed with Filmmaker Magazine to provide online viewing access for a grip…
Official short film selections for #EOFF2018! An incredible array of diverse and creative content and subjects that hint and haunt in the best of ways.
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 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 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 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 “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…
dir. Jim Cummings
2018, USA, 91:34 mins, Fiction
dir. Chloé Zhao
2017, USA, 104 mins, Fiction & Nonfiction
dir. Skye Fitzgerald
2018, USA, 83:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Penny Lane
2018, USA, 71:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer, Quinn Costello
2017, USA, 71:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Erik Bloomquist 2018, USA, 95 mins, Fiction
dir. Ann Lupo
2018, USA, 95:32 mins, Fiction & Nonfiction
dir. Laura Nix
2018, USA, 87 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Morrisa Maltz
2018, USA, 52 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Richard Miron
2018, USA, 92:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Bridey Elliot
2018, USA, 80:00 mins, Fiction
dir. Matthieu Ritz
2018, Canada, 77:00 mins, Nonfiction
From super 8 to 4K - Evolution of the craft
Saturday, October 20 // 9:30am
*this will be a member priority event, followed by passholders first come first serve - limited seating
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…
#EOFF2017 Festival Awards “We are thrilled to announce the winners of #EOFF2017 — the 8th Annual film festival that finished up over the weekend in La Grande, OR. The films here have been selected through an intimate, if somewhat unconventional…
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,…
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.
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.
#EOFF2017 - From Page to Screen with Andy Mingo and Lidia Yuknavitch
FRIDAY, OCT. 20 — MCKENZIE THEATER @ EOU — 4 PM
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 (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 (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 (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…
dir. Dean Peterson
2017, USA, 83 mins, Narrative Feature
dir. Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney
2017, USA, 80 mins, Narrative Feature
dir. Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliffe
2017, USA, 81 mins, Narrative Feature
dir. Theo Anthony
2017, USA, 82 mins, Documentary Feature
dir. Jenni Salonen, Maryam Razavi
2017, Finland, 67 mins, Documentary Feature
dir. Jessica Dimmock, Christopher LaMarca
2016, USA, 87 mins, Documentary Feature
dir. Anita Mathal Hopland, Jens Lengerke
2017, USA, 81 mins, Narrative Feature
dir. Brad Abrahams
2017, USA, 66 mins, Documentary Feature
dir. Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko
2017, Canada, 80 mins, Documentary Feature
dir. Peter Nicks
2017, USA, 93 mins, Narrative Documentary
dir. Pete Ohs, Andrea Sisson
2017, USA, 91 mins, Narrative Feature
dir. Mike Ott
2017, USA, 88 mins, Documentary Feature
dir. Matt McCormick
2017, USA, 60 mins, Documentary Feature
dir. Maxime Pelletier-Huot
2017, Canada, 77 mins, Documentary Feature
#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…
#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,…
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.…
EOFF has landed a ranking in MovieMaker Magazine’s coveted annual article for 2017. A panel of cool put together this list of film festivals that showcase a diverse array of festival style. “The 25 rare birds on our 2017 Coolest Film…
Teaming up with NW Documentary and Oregon Film, Eastern Oregon Film Festival* curator Ian Clark will be hosting a series of films at NW Documentary‘s Media Center, all of which will feature Q&As with the filmmakers via Skype. We also will…
Great things are happening for this year’s flagship event. EOFF’s board of directors and festival director are currently engaged in the hq project, initial programming opportunities, launching the call for entries (opens May 24), and celebrating with #EOFF2016 members and…
All 2016 EOFF Members and hq campaign donors are invited to attend! Spring has arrived… it’s time to get dirty, till the soil, plant some seeds, and help nurture EOFF into bloom again. EOFF2017 is slated for October 19-21 and we…
SAVE THE DATE: Eastern Oregon Film Festival’s eighth annual event will be held October 19-21, 2017 in downtown La Grande, Oregon. FESTIVAL UPDATE: EOFF has been working hard to create a sustainable and permanent footprint in La Grande’s downtown cultural…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival enjoyed three days in La Grande, OR with visiting filmmakers, industry guests, musicians, friends and family. With its focus on contemporary cinema, the program highlighted over 30 independent films that showcased diverse forms and genres. 14…
Online Selections will stream exclusively at Filmmaker Magazine on October 21 & 22 starting at 9am EST. SPIDER VEINS (dir. Frank Mosley) 2016 / USA / 20min / Experimental Short Synopsis Two women reunite in a quiet neighborhood before a…
SHH… ITS A SECRET. Come join filmmaker Cambria Matlow and check out a couple top-secret screenings at The Stage Door Theatre — Saturday,October 22 at 3:30pm. XXXX XXXX (dir. Joe Nankin) 2016 / USA / 15 mins / Narrative Short A young…
Abandoned Generations (dir. Linda Fenstermaker) A portrait of farmland in the Pacific Northwest, Abandoned Generations explores relationships with land and time in different generations. Told through the perspective of a female farmer in the 1940s, the film questions the distance…
Dir. Jeremy Teicher, Alexi Pappas
2016, USA, 87min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Ian McCluskey
2015, USA, 80min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Julia Pesce
2015, Argentina, 63min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Nathan Silver and Mike Ott
2016, USA, 75min, Documentary Feature