Join us at the Post 5 Theater on Saturday, March 5th for our FiLMLaB Directors Panel. Free to Willamette Writers members ($10 non-member paid at the door) this event features all of our FiLMLaB directors from the past four years and a chance to have your questions answered! Join these three directors: Christopher Alley of Ampersand…
The 2015 FiLMLaB Contest kicked off Tuesday night at Portland’s Historic Old Church, when the final contest parameters were announced. In addition to limits on page count (7, not including title page) and characters (4 speaking roles with allowances for extras), three new limitations are in place this season. The thematic prompt from the first…
by Ruth Witteried If you follow FiLMLaB or Willamette Writers on Facebook, then you already know that our 2012 FiLMLaB short, Alis Volat Propriis (written by Haley Isleib) was accepted into the Oregon Independent Film Festival in Portland and Eugene. To add to that good news, we found out last week that it wasn’t just…
By Ruth Witteried FiLMLaB has begun pre-production on Barbara Thomas’s winning short, INSPIRATION. Director Christopher Alley is working out the final script details with the writer and executive producers; scouting locations for the shoot, casting the roles and lining up a professional crew. To give you a sense of scope, let’s take a look at…
by Haley Isleib Hey there! There’s still time to enter this year’s FiLMLaB Script-to-Film contest. Congrats to all who have already entered this year’s FiLMLaB contest. Reach around right now and pat yourself on the back. You rock! To all those who haven’t entered yet–there’s still time! I sent in my script (via email) last year at 11:50pm…
