WINNER OF the Portland Events and Film Office Post-Production Grant

The Portland Events and Film Office, in partnership with Travel Portland, has announced that This is An Awesome Rock Show, a feature documentary directed by Laura Sams Jordan and Robert Sams, are recipients of the 2024 Post Production Grant.

The award was given to five feature films.  The funding is designed to encourage the completion of a local feature-length film and position local producers to build toward larger, more resourced productions. Past recipients of the Post-Production Grant have included “Nora” by Anna Campbell and Dawn Redstone Jones’ “Mother of Color,” the latter picked up by Amazon Prime Studios for worldwide streaming distribution.   

Five films, selected from a pool of over 23 applicants were awarded $8,000 each. Grant funds are applied towards Portland based post-production services such as: sound, picture editing, color matching, color grading, closed caption, tech specs for distributors, VFX/animation, and music clearances using local post-production houses.  

“Keeping post production in Portland is so important; so many times when people make movies here, they end up doing post in other places.  It is really important to continue to build on the post production infrastructure that we have here in the city,” said Film Industry Project Manager Elyse Taylor Liburd. “I was really blown away by the caliber of the productions and the uniqueness of the storytelling.  Every year that I think we can’t top the last, it just keeps on getting better.”   

The projects were selected based on their commitment to diverse representation in their film and/or in production, the potential impact of the film on local talent and economy; influence of funding on the project and/or career of the applicant, and the potential impact of the film on external markets by way of bringing Portland’s vitality to the big screen. .