the one and only:
OMPA Annual Meeting
Friday, January 27th
6pm-9pm
at Hollywood Theatre in Portland
OMPA Awards of Excellence
Installation of New Board Members
World-Class mingling
Followed by a private screening of a recent work from Wooden Frame Productions and Polluted Pictures
RSVP now closed.
Remaning seats available first-come-first-served at the door after RSVP's are seated.
Growing Jobs 
& Business Opportunities
thank you
for supporting
the Oregon Food Bank
Food and Fund drive!
Looking for talent or a crew? SourceOregon.com is the definitive guide for film, video, or interactive media production in the State of Oregon.
Stay in the loop with OMPA, a central point of contact for Oregon's diverse creative services community.
OMPA established the Media Arts Education Fund to encourage the growth of Oregon's film, video, multimedia and journalism industries.
Spend a day of merriment on a golf course while supporting a worthy cause.
SourceOregon - Oregon's media production directory
Every major produc
er and coordinator currently shooting in Oregon endorses SourceOregon as the best res ource for hiring crew, equipment and services. Print and digital copies are distributed to each commercial, feature and television production company that considers shooting in the state.
This year SourceOregon publishes in magazine format, with editorial highlighting a selection of Oregon's best qualities. Look for the print edition in early April. Copies are free to OMPA members and any one hiring in state.
SourceOregon is published in cooperation with OMPA, IATSE, MOPAN, SOFaT, the City of Portland and the Governor' s Office of Film & Television. OMPA members get a $35 discount, which is the cost of one Ba sic Listing. Display advertising is available both in print and online.
OMPA Newsletter: The Callsheet
Current news for Oregon's production industry. Click the link below or browse past issues at www.issuu.com/ompa.
Telling Oregon’s Story - November 2011
We are lucky to work in a state that promotes our film, television, commercial and new media production resources, and the last 5 years in Oregon have shown record-year after record-year of production business. We did it by working together to earn as much business for Oregon companies and workers as we possibly could... More
Good Time Had at Final Cut Classic
The weather was great (ok, a bit windy), everyone was on their best behavior (as far as we can recall) the play was fair (although we're still not quite sure who really won), and the 2011 Final Cut Classic golf tournament and wine tour once again goes down as a memorable good time. OMPA scholarship award winners were on hand to be celebrated and to document the tournament, which was powered by collaborative workflow and solution partners AJA, Autodesk and Key Code Media.
If you didn't make it, we'll be around next year - go ahead and pencil your calendar for Friday, July 20, 2012!
Thanks again to guests and sponsors, in particular R2 who sponsored the beverage cart and hosted a Martini at the awards party for all attendees, MacPac whose hole-in-one offering kept the best golfers on their game, Advanced Broadcast Solutions who managed the increasingly popular ''Skills Challenge,'' Hays Companies for arranging the Prize Putt and sponsoring the awards party, plus a host of others, listed here.
Some ''coverage'', thanks to Cine Rent West: Golf Digest...
...and a photo slideshow from Timothy Levine: Vimeo
More Bad Golf...
The 2010 Final Cut Classic documentation includes Video by Wayne Paige, "Golf Digest" Foursome Photos by Cine Rent West, and a short script by Pete Fulford, Scriptwriter, Fulford Creative.
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Feedback Please!: Have you signed up for the OMPA Dental/Vision plan? Do you like it? Tell us your experience by email at info(at)ompa.org.
Contact OMPA member/Insurance expert Dennis Noreen at 503-667-0500 for help with OMPA's Dental/Vision plan, or to improve your personal or business health insurance.
Kitzhaber, Business and Labor Agree:
Extend and enhance the Oregon Production Investment Fund to prioritize the growth of good jobs in Oregon. More
Thank our Legislative Champions!
Send a thank you note to Governor Kitzhaber!
Thanks as well to Senator Ginny Burdick!
Media Arts Education Grants:
Applications Due May 31st
OMPA accepts applications between January 1st and May 30th each year for the Edward Gustamante Media Arts Education Fund Scholarships. OMPA awards grants in three categories: Individual Education Scholarship, Project-Based Scholarship, and Scholastic Program Scholarship. Funds for the scholarship are derived from the Final Cut Classic golf tournament.New Scholarship This Year: Thanks to a very special opportunity from Intel, OMPA announces the Digital Media Commission, an opportunity for 8 students from around the state to earn a $2,000 stipend to explore applications of the latest in personal media technology, plus $500 for the sponsoring instructor.
Special Legislative Note
Oregon Film Incentives Do More with Less
An OPIF and Greenlight Fact Sheet
U.S. Incentives Ranked
Legislative Bullet Points (Flyer)
OMPA shares a common goal with all Oregonians to work together to grow jobs and economic activity and support a fiscally responsible state budget. In these economic times, this is an extremely challenging task for our state's elected leadership, just as it is for the private sector commerical, film, video, television and new media production industry that OMPA represents. Media production however has proven itself as a bright spot in Oregon's economic landscape, presenting solutions for job growth and economic prosperity. The industry represents the jobs which manufacture the advertising, marketing, entertainment and communications that fuel the growth of a 21st Century economy.
The programs that encourage jobs in the media production industry build jobs and grow the economy while raising revenue for the state to pay for those efforts. OMPA applauds the Oregon legislature for maintaining these programs for the past 6 years, and we encourage the 2011 legislature to continue them. The economic impact is immediate, reaches across many aspects and all regions of Oregon's economy, and cultivates an industry which promises to grow in the 21st Century.
The Numbers Add Up
Oregon's industry already accounts for $709 million per year in direct spending (and $1.39 billion of combined direct and indirect economic impact) according to the most recent analysis referenced here . $600 milllion of that is from Oregon companies - commercial producers, independent producers, post-houses, broadcasts television producers, web video firms and others.
To cultivate this industry and contribute to Oregon's creative industries infrastructure, our state stimulated investments from private projects to generate over $60 million increase in spending in Oregon in 2009 alone. The cost to stimulate this investment in Oregon was 12% of the revenue earned, and the economic impact to the state is determined as:
For every million dollars spent in Oregon by out-of-state productions, about $123,260 in state and local government revenues are generated.
Source: Economic Impact Analysis of the Oregon Film and Video Industry in 2007
That's 12% invested by government treasuries to attract projects, 12.3% returned.
Represented in dollars, in the last 5 years, the return to the state treasury was $1.5 million more than it spent, with $32.5 million allocated, $34 million returned. (See "Oregon Film Incentives Do More with Less" link above.)
Meanwhile, we've also generated at least $60 million dollars per year in spending in Oregon. That money came from out of state and wouldn't have existed in Oregon's economy otherwise. More importantly, the investment means jobs and cash flow to actors, painters, photographers, writers, directors, camera people, animators, data technicians, and drivers (among many others) as well as a host of supportive Main Street businesses from hotels, leasing agents and banks to hardware stores, caterers, and craft stores. All while building resources and infrastructure to allow our industry to continue to thrive and employ tomorrow's workforce.
The fact that the economic development programs that generated this activity returns more money to the state treasuries than is spent by them makes it a smart choice to move Oregon's economy forward, and a solution to Oregon's jobs crisis.
We appreciate your taking the time to become better informed on this opportunity to increase employment and spur economic growth in Oregon.
About OMPA
OMPA is the voice of the professional members of Oregon's commercial, film, video, and interactive media production industry.
Welcome Actors!
OMPA promotes our top-notch talent among Oregon's resources to the production industry and welcomes actors in OMPA membership.
Why support OMPA?
OMPA is a voice for Oregon's commerical, film/TV, video, and new media production industry. We achieve our mission to grow jobs and business opportunities through various programs:
- We collect Oregon professionals within a directory so that the professional industry is more readily accessed to make jobs and business happen
- We promote Oregon as a production location so the local market will benefit from increased business
- We conduct workshops, advocate for jobs and economic development programs at state and local levels, and produce high-value professional networking events.
Members benefit from industry information, access to other industry professionals, and a forum to shape the future of Oregon's economy. For more information, see "Join OMPA".