KLAMATH FILM

“To build, promote, and support an industry of filmmaking in and around Klamath Falls, Oregon while connecting our community to film.”

Klamath Film, a 501(c)(3) located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, was established in 2012 to support a culture of filmmaking in Southern Oregon. In 2013 Klamath Film began the Klamath Independent Film Festival – an annual mid-September multi-day celebration of Made-in-Oregon independent films.

Today Klamath Film serves as the film liaison office for Klamath County – helping coordinate film productions throughout the Southern Oregon region. Klamath Film can help with location scouting, auditions, permits, crew calls, and much more.

CELEBRATING FILM

Klamath Film unveiled a historic marker in downtown Klamath Falls for the film “Phoenix, Oregon”

Klamath Film coordinates special film screenings throughout the year, including our ever-popular Oscar-nominated Shorts program always held right before the annual Academy Awards. Whenever possible we host filmmakers for question-and-answer sessions with our audience.

The Klamath Independent Film Festival has become renowned as the premier Oregon-centric film fest, celebrating filmmaking in Oregon and Northern California.

NETWORKING

To help aspiring filmmakers and actors, Klamath Film hosts monthly membership meetings, offering networking opportunities for upcoming projects, a chance to screen recently completed videos, and each month connect with a different featured guest from the film industry for an “Ask Me Anything” session.

As work opportunities come up Klamath Film is the first to announce auditions, crew calls, or commercial production needs for our membership. Looking for video work? Klamath Film maintains relationships with clients so that our members are the first to know when a job is needed.

EDUCATION

Klamath Film hosts an annual film camp – the Klamath Film Youth Film Fellowship – in partnership with the Southern Oregon University Digital Cinema Studies program. Intended for teens and beginning filmmakers, the film camp teaches the basic fundamentals of filmmaking with an emphasis on utilizing tools readily available around the home to make short films on your own.

Each year students not only collaborate to create their own film projects, but some get selected to showcase at the annual Klamath Independent Film Festival too!

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Klamath Film is a part of the greater Klamath community, and we collaborate often with groups to bring events to life. Whether livestreaming events, tech assistance, promotion, or education outreach, Klamath Film is ready to help. We speak often with students about filmmaking and careers in the film industry, and work closely with venues and organizations to enhance and enrich the Klamath arts scene.

—– Want to know more? Contact us at info@klamathfilm.org and find out —–

Helping Santa safely meet with kids at the Daily Bagel in downtown Klamath Falls during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

"Going into the production with these great actors in a welcoming city, for me personally it was a wonderful experience from start to today. The whole thing was a great experience...Filming in Klamath Falls was a wonderful experience, I would film there again in a heartbeat. The city and the bowling alley, it became a perfect partner. Being able to film around Klamath Falls and to have everybody be so great was really wonderful."

"Just driving to Klamath falls was breathtaking, coming around out of the forest and to that giant blue lake was amazing. Everyone was very open-armed. I got to the hotel and right away everybody was so kind. The energy in the town itself was lovely. The minute I got to meet the cast and see these people Gary had pulled together, it felt like a big breath of fresh air. It was nice to slowdown and knowing being creative would be that much easier because of it."

"I would say Klamath Falls was the right place to make this movie. I know it’s called Phoenix Oregon, but it was in Klamath that we found our allies, our locations, our support, investors. We found a film festival there and some lovely people who have built up the Klamath Film program there – it was the right place to make the film."

"I think what these markers and what the Oregon Film Office has done to incentivize that to support people like the Lundgrens. I think that’s why it’s so important we celebrate not only what the markers mean, but the films they represent and what it’s about. If we can keep it there the industry will grow and it will allow artists like us to come and it will lead to places like Klamath Falls getting to thrive. Backdrops, centers of industry, talent. A lot of Oregon people were great. You’ve got great talent in the state."

Mission

KLAMATH FILM

CELEBRATING FILM

NETWORKING

EDUCATION

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Luis Rodriguez

Reynaldo Gallegos

Gary Lundgren

Jesse Borrego

KLAMATH FILM