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
Dir. Benjamin R. Davis, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Jay Jadick, Dane Mainella
2015, USA, 87min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Christopher LaMarca
2016, USA, 74min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Zack Khalil, Adam Khalil
2016, USA, 75min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Kat Hunt
2016, USA, 50min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Sam Marine & Michael Borowiec
2016, USA, 95min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Daniel Martinico
2016, USA, 79min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Bernardo Britto
2016, USA, 87min, English, Spanish, Arabic, Comedy Feature
Dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall
2015, USA, 83min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Sam Marine & Michael Borowiec
2016, USA, 95min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Sophia Takal
2016, USA, 85min, Narrative Feature
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be celebrating its seventh year of independent film and music programming in La Grande, Oregon on October 20-22, 2016. EOFF will be hosting more visiting filmmakers than in previous years, and in all screening more…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be celebrating its seventh year of independent film and music programming in La Grande, Oregon October 20-22, 2016. EOFF is privileged to announce the musicians who will be joining us this fall. EOFF will host…
Y La Bamba frontwoman Luz Elena Mendoza returns to themes of searching and metamorphosis in her newest works. Her clarity of voice is intimately tied to a renewed musical approach, which Luz attributes to a greater self-awareness that developed through…
A Moon Honey show is not just a collection of dense, dizzying sonic splendor, but a visceral experience that saturates every sense. A guitar solo spins into a soaring vocal arpeggio only to slam down to earth with a thud.…
Seattle’s wimps are a Seattle-based three-piece comprised of Rachel Ratner (Butts) on guitar and lead vocals, Matt Nyce (Meth Teeth) on bass and backing vocals, and Dave Ramm (The Intelligence) on drums. Wimps serve their own brand of rapid-fire punk…
From Boise, ID, Thick Business will throw an introspective dance party for those festival-goers and town folk alike. “Thick Business borders on the epic while still being a damn good time.” – says Fiona Hannigan for APES ON TAPE. SUPER…
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir is a trio of neo-traditionalists playing traditional music on traditional instruments for non-traditional times. They call it Junkerdash, and it’s a sound brewed from folk, bluegrass, punk, string-band blues and…
Artist K. Velate Swope brings new music to EOFF in her most recent incarnation Bijouxx. “bijoux sings, nested gently in some infinite and horizontal plane.Both a ripple and a void, she releases her rounded pearls to skitter outward and bathe…
Clarke and the Himselfs is the sonically extended portion of Clarke Aleksandr Howell. What originally began with multi-track records, transmographied into the full band it is today, with Howell using the drums, guitar, his voice, and no loops, creating catchy,…
Dear Mr. Henshaw is the new solo project from Mike Surber (of Sons of Guns andFast Man). The acoustic guitar lays on a bed of stomp box percussion and ethereal string echoes. The lyrics are a shoebox full of old…
Pass Sale & Auction • September 21 Eastern Oregon Film Festival is excited to present it’s seventh annual program October 20-22 and we’re rolling it all out Wednesday September 21! The event will feature some great appetizers and complimentary drinks while…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be presenting a special block at this year’s We Like Em Short (WLES) film festival in Baker City, Oregon on August 20th. The “short fest” will take place August 18th thru 21st, 2016 at the historic…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be celebrating our seventh annual program October 20-22. We have been busy locking in another great program of independent film, music, and conversations to present in historic downtown La Grande. Eastern Oregon University has stepped…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be presenting its seventh annual event October 20-22, 2016 in La Grande, Oregon. Making the move back to October, the festival organizers and supporters are feeling giddy with excitement. “October is a great time for…
•• EOFF Co-Founder/Film Curator Ian Clark will premiere his new project A MORNING LIGHT at the 2015 Torino Film Festival! It’s screening in the festival’s out-of-competition category — Waves — on November 21, 27, and 28. EOFF supported this project during its…
(LA GRANDE, OR) • Eastern Oregon Film Festival is excited to announce the new dates for its upcoming seventh edition — #EOFF2016. // Save The Date • October 20-22, 2016 // Eastern Oregon Film Festival is jumping around the calendar!…
The sixth annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival kicks off this Thursday, May 7, in La Grande, Oregon with the documentary feature PLANETARY at 7:00PM preceded by Danny Madden’s ALL YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS! A in-person Q&A with PLANETARY director Guy Reid will follow. The night will…
SCHWARZ THEATER (EOU) // Friday MAY 8 // 1:10PM
•• It just keeps coming, people. We’re honored to introduce this year’s collection of 60+ minute films—narrative features, documentaries, or those experiments somewhere in-between. Through a range of styles and cinematic genre, this year’s collection tackles subjects as diverse as…
•• We’re excited to announce our OFFICIAL 2015 ONLINE SELECTIONS! We’re collaborating with filmmakers who have agreed to share their works online during the EOFF weekend. It’s exiciting not only because this enables a remote festival component, but because it…
•• This post is gonna be short and sweet, folks (zing!). We’re proud to present the 2015 OFFICIAL SHORT FILM SELECTIONS! Check them out HEEEEEEEERE!!!!!!
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (dir. Sam Kuhn) Technical Info 2014 / USA / 15min / Experimental Short Synopsis A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but…
From all directions, this year’s musical guests will create the soundscape to the sixth annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival. On Thursday (May 7) come visit the Art Center for a local kick-off show with HAM n CHEESE and Pendleton’s JDK&EOPB. Friday (May 8)…
There is a band as local as it gets, who really ham it up in a very cheesy way- Ham n Cheese. They play a rambunctious mix of rock,county, punk,show tunes, you name it. They are- Hard knuckled, extreme outdoorsman,…
This past fall James Dean Kindle his longtime backing band The Eastern Oregon Playboys released their third album, Many Splendored Things. This album marks a creative turn for the Pendleton, OR singer-sonwriter as it is a full immersion into the…
“bijoux sings, nested gently in some infinite and horizontal plane. Both a ripple and a void, she releases her rounded pearls to skitter outward and bathe you in loneliness. she was known previously as Grandma Kelsey, and is excited to…
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir is a trio of neo-traditionalists playing traditional music on traditional instruments for non-traditional times. They call it Junkerdash, and it’s a sound brewed from folk, bluegrass, punk, string-band blues and…
Old Death Whisper is a cocktail of dirty western roots music and country tinged parlor tunes. ODW loves good old country and folk music of early America. Sea shanties, spaghetti westerns (which we realize are Italian), railroad songs, road movies,…
In early 2010, Holland Andrews began a solo project behind the alias of Like a Villain. She pulls her influences from notable minimalist composers such as Arvo Pärt, contemporary vocalists including Diamanda Galás, and modern experimental musicians like Björk, and…
Short films precede each feature block.
Yeah Great Fine. Something we all say when we just don’t care. Perhaps a comment on the general malaise of our generation (ourselves included). Mostly, an ironically spiritless label for a band that is anything but. Yeah Great Fine was…
SIXTH ANNUAL EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL Eastern Oregon Film Festival is kicking off its sixth edition on Thursday, May 7, and will run through Saturday, May 9. The opening night feature is Guy Reid’s stunning feature documentary, PLANETARY. It will…
Although Astoria, Oregon is best known to multiple generations of pop-culture observers as the cinematic setting of the ‘80s cult classic The Goonies, the rugged riverfront city now has another distinction: as the home of the fab new pop-rock combo…
dir. Scott Cummings
2014, USA, 30min, Experimental Short
dir. Guy Reid
2015, UK+USA, 85min, Documentary Feature
dir. Sara Dosa
2015, USA, 80min, Documentary Feature
dir. Farzad Sangari
2014, USA, 89min, Documentary Feature
dir. Ross Bros
2015, USA, 93min, Documentary Feature (English subtitles)
dir. Eugene Kotlyrenko
2015, USA, 78min, Narrative Feature
dir. Evgeny Ruman
2015, Israel, 92min, Narrative Feature (Hebrew, with English Subtitles)
GRANADA // Saturday MAY 9 // 11:00AM
dir. Fredrik Geraten
2015, Sweden, 91min, Documentary Feature
dir. Amanda Wilder
2014, USA, 89min, Documentary Feature
STAGE DOOR // Saturday MAY 9 // 2:00PM
dir. Mike Ott
2014, USA, 85min, Narrative Feature
dir. Caleb Johnson
2014, USA, 62min, Narrative Feature
STAGE DOOR // Saturday MAY 9 // 5:45PM
dir. Alison Bagnall
2015, USA, 86min, Narrative Feature
April 8, 2015 / 6:30pm – 9:30pm Liberty Theatre 1010 Adams Avenue, La Grande, Oregon Selected films, musical guests, special events and more will be announced. Festival Passes go on sale! Trailers of EOFF2015 films will screen at 7:30 p.m. in…
Last summer, EOFF got involved with festival programmer Ian Clark’s upcoming project, A Morning Light. Our 501c3 status enabled project contributions through Kickstarter to become tax-deductible and everyone was psyched. Following production, NW Documentary slapped a high five and generously…
(LA GRANDE, OR) – Eastern Oregon Film Festival is excited and proud to announce the dates for its sixth annual event — #EOFF2015. The 2015 festival will kick off Thursday, May 7, and run through Saturday, May 9 in La…
A core element of the EOFF vision is to support filmmaking in Eastern Oregon via access, education, and organizational support. Contribute to Ian Clark’s newest work and help highlight Eastern Oregon as a production destination! CHECK OUT THE KICKSTARTER PAGE…
The Sixth Annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be held May 7-9, 2015 in La Grande, Oregon. In honor of the new spring time dates and our mission to bring compelling film, music, and conversation to the Grande Ronde Valley,…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival celebrated a successful fifth edition! Cinema, live music, parties, and panels ran Thursday, Feb.20 through Saturday, Feb.22. On Sunday, Filmmakers and festival-goers shared an incredible Decompression Day at Anthony Lakes Ski Resort. Attendance and buzz were…
We’re excited to present the complete lineup for the 5th edition of EOFF. Below you’ll find the digital version of our festival guide for viewing or download. Printed guides will be available at the event. See you soon!!!! >> View the…
Stop by the Art Center throughout the festival and take in the art exhibition. Schnitt! at the Art Center at the Old Library, February 4 – 27, features new work by Cory Peeke, Director of the Nightingale Gallery and Associate…
Download and view a PDF version of the printed schedule >> EOFF2014 Schedule (PDF) View the entire EOFF2014 Festival Guide >> Click here. THURSDAY | FEB20 11AM -6:30PM ART CENTER FESTIVAL PASS PICK-UP / SOCIALIZE / FESTIVAL INFORMATION ART EXHIBITION: Schnitt!…
“The man behind the name is our good friend Rence Liam, who’s been tearing it up with his eccentric attention demanding one-man-band performances across the USA. Imagine attending a secret party thrown by Salvador Dali in an ornate smoke-filled drinking…
JOIN US ON SUNDAY FEB. 23RD FOR A DAY AT THE MOUNTAIN. Join #EOFF2014 for a decompression party at Anthony Lakes Ski Resort on Sunday, February 23 2014. After a few days of watching films – we thought it would…
A Conversation with Simple Machine Saturday / Feb22 / 11:00AM / The Art Center Contemporary independent film, domestic and international, is not readily accessible to the majority of people. It’s not always easy to find, learn about, or watch.…
The Best of the 40th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival touring program presents a carefully selected cross-section of the state of filmmaking in the Northwest. The Northwest Film Center presents this showcase to bring the filmmakers wider exposure and to offer this…
LAIKA has become the world’s most ambitious, creative and fearless animation studio. In his presentation featuring rarely viewed behind-the-scenes footage, Mark Shapiro will talk about the remarkable creativity at LAIKA, from the CG-classic Moongirl (2005) to the two Oscar-nominated stop-motion features ParaNorman (2012) and Coraline (2009). The studio’s next film, The Boxtrolls, will debut in theaters on September 26, 2014. Production puppets will be on display. [box] FREE event at The Granada on Saturday, Feb. 22. Time: 12:30PM[/box] Scott…
View a curated collection of VINE videos by filmmaker Kentucker Audley. CURATOR’S STATEMENT Thanks to EOFF for asking me to curate some of my favorite Vines. Below are 16 vids from 10 accounts which range from hyper-composed to completely off-the-cuff. Indie…
EOFF2014 is excited to announce that in addition to the after party celebrations with an incredible line-up of visiting and local musicians, festival goers will also be privy to solo acts Edmund Wayne and Grandma Kelsey. These intimate sets will…
Directed by Zach Weintraub [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Narrative Feature (85min / Online Premiere) [/box] Justine left to sit quietly by and observe the early signs of her own deteriorating relationship. SYNOPSIS Justine, a recent college graduate turned retail…
Directed, edited, photographed, produced by Ian Clark [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Experimental Feature 67min [/box] Synopsis An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections of construct and verité, and the ways in which technology, landscape, and beauty coalesce. Here,…
Directed, Edited, Photographed, Produced by Nandan Rao [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Narrative Feature (68 min) [/box] Synopsis “Our boys, when they arrive at years of maturity and can take earn of a wife, should get married…While I do not make…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to announce the official short film selections for #EOFF2014. These powerful short works will preface the 2014 feature selections.
Directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon [box] Interactive documentary. 30 short films. 4 hours total. Entire video collection >> Website: [/box] Hollow is an interactive documentary and community participatory project that examines the future of rural America through the eyes and…
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NARRATIVE FEATURE
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FEATURE NARRATIVE
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FEATURE COMEDY
(91min / Premiere)
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
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