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Oregon's film industry is expanding thanks to enticing tax rebates and expansive, diverse locations for productions. 

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The director, filmmaker, and Bent Image Lab Studio founder shares everything about the stopmo animation technique he created and how it will continue to live on as a unique art form.

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From Puppets to Apocalyptic Series About Viruses, Jaymes Neon Knows How to Outfit a Character The local costume designer talked to us about everything from crafting teeny puppet outfits to making Nicolas Cage look like hes been living in the woods for months. Neon was on set for The Stand—a series about a deadly virus wiping out most of the country—while the pandemic began to hit. Jaymes Neon née Hansen has been around the Portland wardrobe block. Between selling her rework...

Memphis animated series The Mound coming to Oprah Winfrey Network A Memphis animator is creating an Orange Mound-inspired comedy series for the Oprah Winfrey Network. Munirah Safiyah Jones, a local filmmaker whose smart and stylish animated shorts have generated buzz on YouTube and at the Indie Memphis Film Festival, will develop the networks first animated series, "The Mound," which will be set in the Orange Mound neighborhood in the 1980s. "The animated comedy series follows the lives of D...