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FESTIVALS
EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS
AROUND EASTERN OREGON
SEPTEMBER 15�22, 2021
Eastern Oregon
Film Festival makes
changes for 2021
Oct. 21-23 festival will offer
in-person and virtual events
EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL
Oct. 21-23
Online and various venues in La Grande
www.eofi lmfest.com
www.eofi lmfest.com
Go! staff
L
A GRANDE — The 2021
Eastern Oregon Film Festival
is slated for a hybrid presentation
Oct. 21-23, with in-person and
virtual events.
As of now, passes for in-
person events will be limited
to only offi cial EOFF members
Western
Feed,
LLC
Pendleton, OR 97801
and visiting artists. Membership
levels are:
• $125 — Festival Friend.
Includes all-access festival pass,
$5 discount on Liberty Theatre
monthly screening tickets, $2
discount on additional ticket
purchases, discount on festival
merchandise, exclusive access
to several screenings, recogni-
tion on programs, plus four virtual
screening tickets.
• $250 — Festival Fan. In-
cludes the above perks, plus 10
virtual screening tickets.
• $500 — Festival Funder.
Includes the above perks, two
all-access virtual passes and 10
virtual screening tickets.
Festival passes are now avail-
able on the EOFF website, while
virtual passes will be available to
purchase online starting Sept.
17. Further details on streaming
the event will be available at www.
eofi lmfest.com.
Chris Jennings, EOFF direc-
tor, said the festival is showing
more fi lms than ever this year
and received its largest intake of
(503) 317-3145
submissions. Visiting fi lmmakers
contributed 40 short fi lm selec-
tions and 13 feature fi lm selec-
tions to this year’s exhibition.
Jennings is already expecting
at least 30 visiting fi lmmakers to
present their fi lms in person in
La Grande.
The fi lm festival will be held
at the Liberty Theatre, McKenzie
Theatre and Schwarz Theatre at
Eastern Oregon University, the
Lodge at Hot Lake Springs, and
HQ on Depot Street. The venues
have varying capacity limits.
Jennings said the festival will
take it one step at a time and
determine in-person availability in
October depending on the public
health situation. Once the total
number of member passes and
visiting fi lmmakers can be deter-
mined, in-person tickets for non-
members may come available.
“We will have an in-person
festival,” Jennings said. “It will be
an artists’ festival and a mem-
bers’ festival, but there will be
public opportunities depending
on capacities.”
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