2010 Opening Night
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.
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The Taqwacores
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…
Putty Hill
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
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…
Exit Through The Gift Shop
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
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…
Hillfolk Noir (Boise, ID)
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…
Sons of Guns (La Grande, OR / Seattle, WA)
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…
Finn Riggins (Hailey, ID)
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…
Yeah Great Fine (Portland, OR)
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…
More 2010 Official Selections
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…
2009
The official festival spot for the first-annual Eastern Oregon Film Festival (est. 2009). XOXOXO