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BendFilm is an independent Oregon film festival in the truest sense–rugged, brilliant, daring, adventurous, fun and engaging.
I just returned from the Old Mill Regal 16 where The Clean Bin Project just screened to a mostly full auditorium for BendFilm. In a word, the film is impacting.
There’s something in the air. Can you feel it? You can always feel it around this time of year, it’s inspiration and it comes from being in the presence of talented filmmakers, watching awesome movie you might never have gotten the chance to see otherwise, and attending a variety of panels, parties, and mixers all in the name of independent cinema. It’s the kind of feeling that makes me want to open up my laptop, grab that copy of Screenplay: Writing the Picture from my college screenwriting class that’s collecting dust and start writing.
I gladly took a half day at work today and dedicated the rest of my day to BendFilm. Here’s a roundup of the movies I saw and more!
Luckily, today has been a refreshing day to stand outside and wait in line to get into the plethora of films screening at BendFilm. Unfortunately for some, the wait for the 3pm screening , and world debut, of Rage Production’s Boom Varietal: The Rise of Malbec didn’t result in a viewing of the locally produced film.
Sure, the movies are reason to go to BendFilm. We acknowledge that.
BendFilm kicked off last night and I was at the Tower Theatre, festival pass around my neck and eyes anxiously awaiting entertainment on the screen.
I wasn’t disappointed by the first two films, and the other 350-plus people in attendance seemed to agree.
The eighth-annual BendFilm festival gets underway tonight with an opening presentation and film screening at the Tower Theatre, followed by a slate of hip-looking parties running late into the night. From what our crack team of movie lovers can tell, this is shaping up to be one of the best years in the festival’s history.
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