There are several reasons why Oregon is the best state for your next independent production.
First of all, our talented crews have worked on many recently successful indie features including Debra Granik’s “Leave No Trace” and Nicolas Cage in “Pig.” In addition, one of the strongest directors of the indie scene started, and based most of his early work, in Oregon – Gus Van Sant – including “Drugstore Cowboy,” “My Own Private Idaho” and “Elephant.” Kelly Reichardt has shot most of her projects in Oregon including “Old Joy,” “Wendy & Lucy” and “First Cow.” On top of that, many of the early trailblazing titles of Indie production were based in Oregon including Paul Newman’s “Sometimes a Great Notion” and the multi-Oscar winning “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Secondly, these are cash rebates that are paid out quickly. That means, from a cash flow perspective, Oregon is a partner in the making of your project. If you are financing your rebate, taking a loan out against our incentive projections or just hoping for a little help in having the cash in the bank to help with your post production work, Oregon’s program can help with that.
And lastly, we’re not Canada. That means you can fly in and fly out easily, you don’t have to worry about customs, immigration or currency conversion, you can just get in a car from the airport and arrive in downtown Portland in about ten minutes.
We don’t just talk about being the Indie Capital, we walk-the-walk and we’ve done that since the turn of the 20th Century when Buster Keaton came to Oregon specifically to escape the reach and oversight of the burgeoning studio system in 1929 for his seminal film”The General”.
We love indie productions and there’s more than one reason why you should bring your next one here.
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