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Thursday, October 15, 2020
GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon
COVER STORY — EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL
EOFF REACHES OUT WITH VIRTUAL FESTIVAL
By Sabrina Thompson and
Lisa Lester Kelly
EO Media Group
LA GRANDE — The annual
Eastern Oregon Film Festival in La
Grande will be completely online
for the Oct. 22-24 event.
The weekend-long festival in
October has operated in venues
downtown, but due to coronavirus
regulations this year’s fi lms will be
available for viewing only on small
screens.
“EOFF joins a
trend that we are
all becoming more
accustomed to —
virtual cinema,”
festival organizers
stated in a press
release.
“Working with
Eventive, an event management
platform, EOFF now has the
means to deliver this year’s pro-
gram to our growing audience in
their homes, but also the potential
to reach far more audience mem-
bers than ever before.”
EOFF 2020 received more than
120 submissions, which the fi lm
festival’s selection committee nar-
rowed down to a baker’s dozen of
features and more than 30 short
fi lms. The festival also will feature
a musical lineup and special key-
note event.
According to the festival’s direc-
tor, Christopher Jennings, cancel-
ing the 2020 festival was not an
option: “We are not ones to give up
easily and throw in the towel.”
The reasons behind the decision
to go on despite the pandemic are
many. Jennings said that includes
respecting the time and money
fi lmmakers have put into their
projects. Additionally, he believes
the festival has elevated the
region’s arts scene and he will do
all he can to ensure the event has a
long future.
“If we stopped it would be easy
not to pick it up again,” Jennings
said. “We want to keep our name
and the event in people’s minds. It
is something people from all over
have come to look forward to.”
This fall the Eastern Oregon
Film Festival will celebrate its 11th
year of independent fi lm and music
programming — while the festival
will be conducted virtually, it will
remain a collective experience.
“We will still have a hub for the
festival,” Jennings said. “A place for
people to come together to discuss
the fi lm, ask questions and talk to
the people who make them.”
View the offi cial festival trailer,
access the EOFF 2020 guide and
purchase passes and tickets at
www.eofi lmfest.com.
Eastern Oregon Film Festival 2020 selections
Short fi lms / directors
In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher
& Socrates’ Trial — Alexander Craven
Lloyd Loses Everything — Aris
Athanasopoulos
Love Birds — Ashley Mosher
Marisa Anderson: Pure Form —
Claudia Meza
Other Side of the Hill — James
Parker
Promises to the Future — Catalina
Giraldo
Reclamation: The Rise at Standing
Rock — Michele Noble
Remember When — Paola Ossa
That’s Hollywood Baby — Jeff
Ryan
Cheap Seats — Brittany Reeber
The Deepest Hole — Matt
McCormick
The Oceans are the Real Conti-
nents/ Los Océanos son Los Ver-
daderos Continentes — Tommaso
Santambrogio
The Other Border — Justin
Zimmerman
Tired Eyes — Ryan Martin Brown
Town Girl — Chris A. Crowley
A Good Man — Anthony Gainer
A Lark and a Swallow — Parker
Winship
Aida (In Between) — Christopher
W. Graham
Another Day — Sommer Martin
Barney — Colin Earner
Bite the Hand — Nolan Wilson
Goff
Black Bear — Peter Paton
CENTURY: summer — Stephanie
Hough
Conspiracy Party — H. Nelson
Tracey
Dafa Metti (Diffi cult) — Tal Amiran
Dispatches from the Vietnam War:
Beer, Bunkers and Typewriters —
Keith Lane
Down on Our Luck — Paul K. Oh
Friends Like That — Francesca
de Fusco
Ghost Moves — Sebastian
Karantonis
Immortal — Robert Allaire /
Natalie Metzger
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Feature fi lms / directors
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