Ruth Witteried

As Visual Media Director, Ruth Witteried works with all programs based in the visual arts, including screenwriting and film production. As Executive Director of the FiLMLaB competition and project, she produced the 2012 FiLMLaB short, Alis Volat Propriis, winner of the 2013 OIFF Best Comedic Short; 2013′s Coffee.Table.Book.; 2014's Unwelcome Guests, and in 2015, The Return of Bug Eyed Bill. She acted as Film Coordinator for the Willamette Writers Conference from 2011-2013 and occasionally teaches screenwriting at Clark College. She currently is Executive Director of Willamette Writers' FiLMLaB. You can follow her on Twitter @sityourassdown1 or Facebook at FiLMLaB. Contact her. (visualmedia@willamettewriters.org)

WW FiLMLaB – Competition Now Open

In the lab with WW FiLMLaB, a short screenwriting competition

Get your script made into a movie! FiLMLaB’s primary purpose is to provide the winning screenwriter with real world experience in the business of writing for film, including the unique opportunity to rewrite and collaborate with industry professionals as their short script is transformed into a short film.

Check out this year’s short screenwriting Competition.

Happy Halloween From FiLMLaB!

Are your jack o’lanterns carved? Is your costume complete and ready to wear? Have you reassembled your lawn displays of tombstones, witches, skeletons and monsters that last week’s windstorm battered about? Then you are ready for National Novel Writing Month! Halloween is the last night to pretend you’re not a writer before the official start…

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How to Build a Better FiLMLaB

As we begin planning for a fourth season of FiLMLaB in 2015, it is important to reassess what our purpose is; why we ever thought this was a good idea and how we can do better. When I first signed on as Film Coordinator for the Willamette Writers Conference in 2011, I spoke to Conference…

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The Grand Experiment: Experience from the FiLMLaB

  There are very few jobs in the world where, when you walk into a room, anyone can say they do without some sort of validation. If you walk into a party, and someone asks if you are a doctor or a police officer or a car mechanic, these titles will instigate follow up questions…

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FiLMLaB Celebrates Portland Film Festival

Welcome writers, screenwriters and film lovers of all stripes to the final week before the Portland Film Festival kickoff. There is still plenty of time to review the seven day schedule of films, classes and music, and tailor an experience that uniquely fits where you are as a writer/filmmaker right now. Start every day with…

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2014 FiLMLaB: Special Thanks

Are you recovered from the Willamette Writers Conference? Recovered is not the right word, at least not for attendees. Attendees usually finish the three day conference, tired, but elated, full of creative energy and invigorating possibility. If you are a conference organizer or volunteer, recovered is exactly the right word. This year was a particular…

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The ‘Guests’ of FiLMLaB’s “Unwelcome Guests”

This is it. The final few days before the FiLMLaB premier of 2014’s winning short, Unwelcome Guests, at the Willamette Writers Conference. If you weren’t aware, the conference has moved this year, from our long time post at the Airport Sheraton, to the Lloyd Center Doubletree Hotel. WW President, Jenny Schrader gave me the grand…

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FiLMLaB Gets FiLMLaB-ier

It was with great sadness that I stepped down from the FiLMLaB leadership last September. I preferred to stay, but every time I penciled it out on paper, I just couldn’t see how I would manage a home remodel, attend to ailing parents and give FiLMLaB the attention it needs and deserves. It is with…

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Welcome 2014 Judges!

Our Hollywood Judges for the 2014 FiLMLaB Competition: TAI DUNCAN PRESIDENT OF PRODUCTION ZERO GRAVITY MANAGEMENT BIO: As President of Production, Tai oversees all aspects of development, production and distribution of Zero Gravity produced projects in both the independent and studio worlds for film and all television. While Senior Vice President of Development and Production…

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Script to Screen 2014 Winner Announced!

Congratulations to our top five finalists in Willamette Writers’ 2014 FiMLaB competition! As a recap, our finalists are: BEK by Elisa Graybill MIDNIGHT KISS by Xavier Chavez SIX MONTHS OF WONDER WOMAN by Susan Fleming TIME PIECE by Michael Meyers UNWELCOME GUESTS by Jon Dragt Our Hollywood judges read and evaluated each script and chose…

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