EOFF Launches ‘Save the Date’ Campaign: Parties with Visiting Musicians and invites you to become a member. Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to host visiting musicians Wooden Indian Burial Ground.and Couches in La Grande at Benchwarmers Pub & Grill on Wednesday, October 30th. The evening will…
HELLLLLLLLO! Well, it’s been awhile since we’ve dropped a line, but this little blast is to let you know that #EOFF2014 is coming in hot! The fifth-annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival will take place February 20-22, 2014 in downtown La…
EOFF invites filmmakers to submit work for consideration in the 5th Eastern Oregon Film Festival, held in La Grande, Oregon February 20-22, 2014. >> SUBMIT YOUR FILM EOFF has been graced by many artists and industry professionals—whether in-the- flesh or via Skype Q&A—including Terence…
A MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WARM-UP PARTY EOFF announced it’s 2014 Dates – February 20-22, 2014 – but before we can savor another year of great film and music in downtown LG we need to assist the organization in growing it’s pocket…
Mark your calendars for FEBRUARY 20-22, 2014 for the 5th Annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival in beautiful La Grande, Oregon. IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A FILM FESTIVAL EOFF provides a quality of life component to our valley that is essential in attracting…
EOFF IS PLEASED AS PUNCH TO ANNOUNCE ITS 2013 WINNERS We chose to honor this incredible selection of films for their brave, innovative filmmaking, and unique, compelling stories. This year’s award-winners moved EOFF audiences and connected with the festival’s artist-driven,…
The festival is upon us! Special thanks to all our great help in designing and building this year’s festival guide. The guide will be distributed with all festival passes as well as been located at all venues through out the…
EOFF2013 is the fourth annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival held in La Grande, Oregon February 28th – March 2nd, 2013. EOFF features an amazing line-up of emerging independent feature and short films. The festival opens with Only The Young, an intimate portrait…
The Best of the 39th 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 in an effort to bring the filmmakers wider exposure and…
A SPECIAL FILM SCREENING ******** 55min, 2012 (dir. Danny Madden) Screening starts with short film: #POSTMODEM (dir. Jillian Mayer/Lucas Leyva) EOFF is proud to present An Evening With ORNANA—an exciting event that offers festival goers a sneak-peek at the new…
Catch Lionsweb along with The Dirty Moogs & AND AND AND for the final after-party of EOFF2013 and part of the Treefort Music Fest Showcase. About the Musician You see her, a thin, flaxen-haired young woman readying herself for an…
Saturday March 2nd, as part of the Treefort Music Fest showcase after-party catch The Dirty Moogs with fellow Boise group Lionsweb and Portland’s And And And for a great finale event at The Art Center at The Old Library. While…
Saturday, March 2nd join Mark Shapiro, Head Of Entertainment Brand Marketing for LAIKA at a behind the scenes look at their recent motion picture ParaNorman. The Making of the handcrafted stop-motion feature ParaNorman (2012). Go behind-the-scenes of LAIKA’s animated feature ParaNorman. Mark Shapiro…
Saturday night, March 2nd, at the Art Center (Festival Hub) catch AND AND AND along with THE DIRTY MOOGS & LIONSWEB for the Treefort Music Fest Showcase. About the Band Three members of And And And (singer/guitarist Nathan Baumgartner, multi-instrumentalist Ryan…
Fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Travis Ward, Hillfolk Noir’s peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music is filtered through a half-century of folk, country and rock ‘n’ roll and fed by an affinity for medicine show culture and Depression-era…
Join Finn Riggins for a night of head bobbing and dance happy craziness at Mt. Emily Ale House, Friday Night, March 1st. Music will kick off in the evening around 9pm. Catch them with fellow Boise artists Hillfolk Noir and…
Grandma Kelsey is the anonym of Boise based singer/songwriter Kelsey Swope. Singer/Songwriter Grandma Kelsey will kick off Friday Night’s after screening festivities followed by Hillfolk Noir, and Finn Riggins all hailing from Boise, Idaho. A solitary, wingless creature armed with…
I'm ready to file ONLY THE YOUNG in the all-time coming of age canon. - Hammer & Nail
The International Sign for Choking depicts the day-to-day encounters of Josh, a would-be expatriate from the US living in Buenos Aires for the second time. While his primary purpose seems to be the production of a vaguely defined video project, he devotes more of his time to tracking down a mysteriously absent ex-girlfriend. Frustrated by continual failure, Josh finds himself the perpetrator of a series of small yet uncharacteristic acts of deceit that ultimately place him in a low-key love triangle alongside Anna, his fellow N. American housemate, and Roger, a local musician.
The sensitively imagined story of a child soldier in Africa makes War Witch a genre benchmark and a breakout work for writer-director Kim Nguyen." - The Hollywood Reporter
*Oregon Premiere Director Nandan Rao Rao has created a film that moves in small steps. Viewers are given little in terms of plot, but are richly rewarded by thoughtful and charming characters, confident cinematography and the use of a stunningly…
A sequel to Eytan Fox’s breakthrough gay story of love and loss on the front lines, Yossi & Jagger(2002), this tender new drama follows Yossi, now a doctor, who turns the corner on the enduring pain of grief. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival."
Cinema Six resembles a movie theater-set version of “Office Space” with the same kind of raunchy humor and quarter-to-mid-life ennui.” “Lead actor John Merriman... handles comedy and drama with equal ease and the whole cast delivers with a fair share of absurd comedic moments.”
a gentle treat for McAbee enthusiasts and a mildly curious study of juvenile behavior for everyone else, which is certainly enough to satisfy this fan." - Eric Kohn (Indiewire)
A riveting portrait of an actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- or, quite possibly, something worse... Armstrong [gives] a rigorously controlled performance that suggests the human equivalent of a ticking time bomb.” - Joe Leydon, Variety
Thursday night, February 28th, enjoy James Dean Kindle & The Eastern Oregon Playboys at Ten Depot Street along side local creation CATSKILLS for the first night after-party. Mind your tongue if you believe that Eastern Oregon is little more than…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to announce the following short films for inclusion in this year’s event. These powerful short stories will preface each of EOFF2013 feature selections. From current Sundance selections to world premiere, from local and regional,…
With the new year upon us EOFF is leaning into the winter breeze, buttoning up, and rearing to roll. We are in the process of locking down the best independent film and music the world has to offer. Buckle up…
Within the multi-instrumentalism den of Jeff Grammer and steaming from the songwriting factory of Gregory Rawlins fashions a new fashion—both state of the art and rusted shut. It’s Future Rust! No, wait, it’s Catskills! Catskills will premiere their collective talons…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is excited to start spilling our guts about the great program in store for 2013. We will be releasing bits and pieces of event information throughout the first of the year and then unveiling our full…
One of the things we love about our festival is the interaction with these spectacular filmmakers. EOFF will be updating its media library with our Q&A’s from 2011 and are implementing some great new ways to document and share this…
Happy holidays film festival friends — As we enter this holiday season, consider giving your friends the gift of a great time. Purchase a membership for a friend and give them access to all of the amazing film, music, and special programs…
Last year around this time Eastern Oregon Film Festival volunteers were working hard on final printing of programs and media in anticipation of last years event — this year – we are just stepping into the great things coming for…
Art Center at the Old Library has been under renovations over the summer and will celebrate their updated space with an art exhibition and block party, Saturday September 15th, entitled, “I Art LG,” which will feature live local music, hands-on art…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be presenting a special screening at the first annual Eastern Oregon Word Round-up, to be held October 26th and 27th. EOFF will present ‘Plimpton’. The screening will take place October 26th at 9:15pm at Tamastslikt Cultural…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival’s co-founder and film programmer Ian Clark was recently included as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s ’25 New Faces in Independent Film’. Ian’s recent films ‘Country Story’ (EOFF 2011 Primiere) and soon to be released short film “Searching for Yellow” have garnered…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will host a satellite event in Eugene, OR—the three nights of screenings will take place April 24-26 at the lovely Bijou Art Cinemas. 2011 official selections Country Story and (shorts)Pioneer, A Face Fixed, Kosmos will be screened. There will be a Q/A with the director…
EOFF will be hosting a night of film at the new “Stage Door Theatre” housed in the back of the historic Liberty Theatre in La Grande. The 50 seat venue is a new and welcomed intimate space for arts and…
Finn Riggins, Sons of Guns, and Yeah Great Fine (all past players at EOFF) all participated in the innagural year of Treefort Music Festival in Boise, Idaho. Eric Gilbert of the Riggins’ helped to coordinate this great event and stated that he…
Attending and showcasing a little 2011 Recap (will post video soon) and updating the State on our growing annual festival in Eastern Oregon. Along with EOU’s Film Program La Grande and Eastern Oregon are becoming points of interest for the…
Filmmaker Dustin Guy Defa get’s asked a pretty big question – This skype Q & A was part of Eastern Oregon Film Festival’s 2011 program – ‘Bad Fever‘, (Dustin’s Film) won him the coveted EOFF Innovation in Directing award.
Audience Q&A with director Ian Clark at the World Premiere of his film ‘Country Story‘ after screening at Eastern Oregon Film Festival in La Grande, Oregon on October 22, 2011. The film featured a lot of the landscapes and locations…
The 2011 Jury Award for best narrative feature went to Evan Glodell’s ‘Bellflower‘. Following the screening on Saturday, October 22, Glodell tuned into La Grande, Oregon via skype from his hotel room in Ireland. He discusses the use of…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival awards five filmmakers with this year’s honors. Bellflower and Dragonslayer received Best Film nods in the narrative and documentary categories, respectively. Cirkus Columbia, and short, Summer Snapshot won audience choice awards. And Bad Fever director, Dustin…
The 2011 Eastern Oregon Film Festival was a blast. Maybe you caught a film or two, or maybe you were one of the hard-cores who saw all 20 and made it to all the after-parties. But to those of you…
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.
An intimate friendship between two women dissolves as they are drawn into an irrational, destructive spiral of jealousy and paranoid fantasy in this haunting examination of the female psyche.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. The communists have fallen from power and Divko Buntic returns to the small town where he grew up to reclaim his family home. After a 20-year exile in Germany. Divko arrives in his flashy red Mercedes with sexy young girlfriend Azra, lucky black cat Bonny and ...
Hillfolk Noir Supplies Opening Night Soundtrack Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to announce Boise, Idaho’s Hillfolk Noir as our festival kick off band Thursday, October 20th at the Granada Theater with a little pre-screening Junkerdash — then again as…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is delighted to have our neighbors over for a visit. Announcing a 2011 Official Music Selection: James Dean Kindle & The Eastern Oregon Playboys (Pendleton, Oregon) will conspire with Boise’s Hillfolk Noir to kick off the…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival will kick off Friday night’s after party with La Grande’s own Son of Guns. The band has just released a new album ‘Oregon Slogan’ and is primed to bring the new material to the table. “Sons…
Great Sponsors, Granting Successes, Donations, & Participation = How we make it happen! The Eastern Oregon Film Festival would not be possible without the growing support of local businesses, organizations, The City of La Grande, and festival participants (cinephiles and…
Long time La Grande musicians Wayne Callahan and Jeff Grammer bring their most recent project / band ‘Elidila’ (pronounced elah – dee – lah) to the table. Elidila is wrapping up their first West Coast tour – playing with the…
In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect every American, regardless of their social status, economic background or where they live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so the longer it is waged. It is a battle over protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal.
Finn Riggins will be honoring EOFF again this year with their increasingly rich musical escapades. Eastern Oregon Film Festival welcomes the Riggins’ to 2011 with the Official Selection stamp (as seen on their photo below. 🙂 La Grande has been…
Gregory Rawlins In a world of quick fixes and shock value, one-hit wonders and weekly online sensations, it is a rare treat to hear a songwriter like Gregory Rawlins, a poet whose words are both whittled from the sturdy oak…
Drag City in association with Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.
There is nothing we love more than having new (and might I add, mind-blowingly swell) music groups getting a taste of La Grande – and in return letting us taste them (maybe that came out poorly). Regardless – Eastern Oregon…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is plump with excitement to announce our final 2011 Official Music Selection – hailing from the tenderest parts of Portlandia — Jared Mees & The Grown Children. Jared Mees, at the helm of both the band…
Jason is a small-town slacker living with his mom. Content with idle days and easy livin’, his forgetful nature creates tension at home so he sets off with his pals to try his hand at redemption.
Alternatingly quiet and delirious, always desperate, Bad Fever is a witness to one man's broken American Dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pretends to understand.
Bob Rockefeller has never been loved, by anyone, ever. He's a sad sack who shovels shit for a living. Life has been anything but extraordinary but that's about to change. During a routine prostate exam, Bob learns he has only 8.5 days to live. 8.5 days to find happiness. 8.5 days to find true love. 8.5 days to find a home for his guinea pigs. 8.5 days to make up for 43 years of living a life that totally sucks.
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building MAD MAX-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies.
The 2011 Eastern Oregon Film Festival is starting the countdown. Festival passes are now available, sponsoring opportunities are being finalized, submissions are closed and the programmers are smiling. Check out the offerings and information below – get your pass (they will go…
For Immediate Release: [La Grande, Oregon] Eastern Oregon Film Festival (EOFF) is excited to work with La Grande Main Street and area businesses to offer an opportunity to reach a regional audience and to introduce themselves as supportive of new…
Eastern Oregon Film Festival (EOFF) is sponsoring a satellite screening of Quality of Life. This award-winning narrative feature film will play at the OK Theater in Enterprise Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 7pm. Director Benjamin Morgan will be present for…
Mike Surber heads to the stage to open up the 2010 Festival.
Filmmaker Benjamin Morgan makes a last minute blast to the lobby for popcorn.
Nella Parks and Benjamin Morgan, welcoming ticket-holders.
Pabst is NOT an official sponsor of Eastern Oregon Film Festival.
Hillfolk Noir performing at White House Coffee during EOFF After-Party
Musician Shaun Daniel plays an acoustic set as people line the sidewalk for admittance to the opening night film at 2010’s Eastern Oregon Film Festival.
Website: “1 of the 10 Best Films from Sundance 2010” – Time Out London Synopsis: Yusef, a first-generation Pakistani engineering student, moves off-campus with a group of Muslim punks in Buffalo, New York. His new “unorthodox” housemates soon…
Playing Friday, October 22: 8:30pm “In a way rarely seen, “Putty Hill” says all that can be said about a few days in the lives of its characters without seeming to say very much at all. It looks closely, burrows…
DADDY LONGLEGS Website: “Daddy Longlegs may shock you, but it will also make you re-examine your ideas about parenthood, and what it means to be a father.” – Newsweek Synopsis: Every year, Lenny gets to spend two weeks with…
Website: “An exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what’s-sincere-and-what’s-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be.” – Owen…
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO Official Website: “a striking micromasterpiece…utterly, wonderfully unique” – The Austin Chronicle Synopsis: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo explores the mystery of the development of Japan’s love affair with bugs. Sold live in vending machines and department…
Venue: Granada Theater & White House Coffee Filtered through a half-century of folk, country and rock ‘n’ roll, and fed by family history and an affinity for acoustic mountain music, medicine show culture and Depression-era string-band blues, Hillfolk Noir’s peculiar…
The Decompression Party Venue: Mt. Emily Ale House Sons of Guns was born in La Grande, ran away to Seattle to sew things, then returned to the Prodigal Brunches of Eastern Oregon’s table. Their new album “Oregon Slogan” will…
Venue: Benchwarmer’s Bar & Grill Finn Riggins is the result of a longtime collaboration between Cameron Bouiss, Eric Gilbert and Lisa Simpson. Having met while completing their music degrees at the University of Idaho, the trio began playing music together…
Venue: Benchwarmer’s Bar & Grill 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…
2010 has a great line-up of films. We Are Croissan’wich A short film about advertising, friendship and breast pumps. Director: Josh Lowman Running Time: 10 min Website: The Bag A simple yet disturbing story of an elderly woman who has…
The official festival spot for the first-annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival (est. 2009). XOXOXO