Beyond the Call returns to Ashland Sep 28, 2007
The Ashland Independent Film Festival and Coming Attractions Theatres will present two special showings of Beyond the Call, the film the festival audience voted their favorite last April, a recent press release announced ... The film will be shown on Friday, Sept. 28, at the Varsity Theatre at 6:15 and 8:15 p.m. All proceeds from the box office of Beyond the Call will benefit the Ashland Independent Film Festivals preparation for the 2008 Festival, scheduled for early April. (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
Rel Sunn documentary offered during Women’s Health Month Sep 28, 2007
In the United States the film won the PBS Independent Lens Audience Award 2003, the Audience Award at both the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Newport Beach Film Festival and Best Documentary Award at the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Heart of the Sea is being shown in honor of Women s Health Month on Oct. 4, at 6 p.m. at Kauai Community College in the Technology Building, Room 114 (located next to the Performing Arts Center). (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Fourth annual D.C. Shorts Festival highlights artists Sep 21, 2007
Inspired by Oregon's Ashland Independent Film Festival, local filmmaker Jon Gann created D.C. Shorts in 2004 to focus on art and artists rather than glitz and glamour. Disenchanted by the impersonal, commercial atmosphere of other festivals, Gann established D.C. Shorts to celebrate and encourage the D.C. filmmaking community and its members. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
This Week in Film Festivals Apr 12, 2007
04/12-16 Ashland Independent Film Festival Ashland, OR. Pennsylvania. (Suite101.com)
Ashland Independent Film FestivalHere are a few of our favorites Apr 12, 2007
Mail Tribune - Ashland Independent Film Festival Here are a few of our favorites - April 12, 2007 ... Ashland Independent Film Festival Here are a few of our favorites ... More than 90 independent feature films, documentaries and shorts will be shown at the Ashland Independent Film Festival today through Monday in Ashland. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Film festival runs Thursday-Monday Apr 11, 2007
It's one of more than 90 films being shown at the Ashland Independent Film Festival, which runs Thursday through Monday with feature, documentary and short films and special events at the Varsity and the old Ashland Armory. The opening night bash is from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Ashland Springs Hotel. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Indie film traces the life of an artist Apr 11, 2007
A film made about his life is one of the highlights of this years Ashland Independent Film Festival ... filmmaker Will Parrinello, "Emile Norman: By His Own Design." The picture will be shown three times at the Ashland Independent Film Festival beginning Thursday. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Ashland's film festival continues to grow Apr 6, 2007
Cult film star Bruce Campbell, filmmaking legend Les Blank and global warming watchdog Rick Piltz will be honored at the 2007 ashland independent film festival ... Tickets to the Ashland Independent Film Festival's screenings cost $9, $8 for seniors and $5. (Mail Tribune, OR)
A real scream Mar 31, 2007
McCloy says he's still trying to figure out how to get it into the hands of actor/filmmaker/author Bruce Campbell, who gained fame with director Sam Raimi in the "Evil Dead" cult pictures, and who is among those being feted at the Ashland Independent Film Festival April 12-16. McCloy says this picture will be bigger and better than "Dead Girls." It's not a full-length feature but a "Tales from the Crypt" kind of thing, five short tales held together by a frame story he won't talk about yet. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Ashland Independent Film Festival line-up set, tickets on sale Mar 23, 2007
The full schedule for the 6th annual Ashland Independent Film Festival, April 12-16, is set. Ninety-three films will be shown on the five screens of the Varsity Theatre and the Historic Ashland Armory. (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
The Future of Food Mar 2, 2007
Awards: 2005 deadCENTER Film Festival Best Documentary; 2005 Empire Film Festival Best Documentary; Ashland Independent Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary; Taos Mountain Film Festival s Human Rights Award; 2005 Women Film Critics Circle Above and Beyond Award; Ann Arbor Film Festival Honorable Mention. (Suite101.com)
First Friday Dec 1, 2006
Bayard's commissioned 2007 Ashland Independent Film Festival poster will be unveiled at a reception to be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Fine art prints of the poster will be available. THE WEBSTERS: 11 N. Main St., , 482-9801. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Disputed garage-door mural finds home Aug 26, 2006
A friend of McCord, Ryan Rambach, is putting together a documentary on the story that he hopes to show at the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Subscribe now. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Jun 30, 2006
Past grantees have included the Arts Council of Southern Oregon, the Dancing People Company, Ashland Parks and Recreation, Ballet Rogue, Britt Festivals, CASA of Jackson County, the Central Point Parks and Recreation Department, the Jefferson Nature Center, the Lithia Arts Guild of Oregon, the Southern Oregon Historical Society, the Woodville Museum, Hanby Middle School, the Public Arts Commission of Ashland, Walker Elementary School, Jefferson Baroque Orchestra, Ashland Independent Film... (Ashland Daily Tidings, OR)
The perfect time for a good book May 26, 2006
Duncan is the author of "The River Why" and "The Brothers K." He was in the Rogue Valley last month as the culmination of the months-long Jackson County Reads program, which based a series of community events on "The River Why." He also popped up as the writer of "Trout Grass," an award-winning documentary film on bamboo fly rods that was shown at the recent Ashland Independent Film Festival. He writes that he grew up in a church that taught him he was "saved," while many of his friends and... (Mail Tribune, OR)
Spirit of independents May 7, 2006
In the recent Ashland Independent Film Festival, 80 entries were chosen from more than 700 submitted from around the United States and overseas, counting documentaries and shorts, for odds of almost 10 to 1. "There are over 2,000 film festivals in the United States," says Darrel Pearce, an AIFF board member and admitted film geek. (Mail Tribune, OR)
MOVIES: Reviews & current listings Apr 29, 2006
Documentary was a hit at the Ashland Independent Film Festival ... Presented by Coming Attractions Theatres and Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF), the proceeds from the Friday night screenings, at 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., will directly benefit the nonprofit AIFF.. (Ashland Daily Tidings, OR)
