News

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  Student’s Screenplay Attracts Film Festival Attention
  December 9
  Noah Foster-Koth BA ’19 heard his screenplay Red Ivory come to life during a table reading at the Seattle International Film Festival’s Catalyst Screenplay Competition. Inspired by a 2013 trip Foster-Koth made to Tanzania, his work explores that country’s blood ivory trade and the individuals who have dedicated themselves to its obstruction.
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  Truck Tales
  October 24
  The recipe for an award-winning documentary about Portland’s vibrant food truck scene? Take one experienced documentary film-making professor. Add two dozen students. Mix in 400 food trucks and carts. Stir consistently for 3 years. Serve at international film festival. Read the full story in the new issue of the Chronicle.
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  Brian Lindstrom B.A. ’84 signs development deal with HBO
  November 13
  Brian Lindstrom B.A. ’84 and his wife, best-selling author Cheryl Strayed, just signed a development deal with HBO to adapt her essay collection, Tiny Beautiful Things, into a television series.
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  Cannes Film Festival gives students “reel” internship experience
  May 16
  For a second year, Lewis & Clark students are among a select group of interns at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.
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  A Critical Lens
  November 4
  Through his documentary films, Brian Lindstrom B.S. ’84 brings marginalized lives to light.
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  Students explore mobile food culture in Cartlandia
  August 26
  Alia Al-Hatlani ’14 and Sofia Alicastro ’14 are working alongside Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies Bryan Sebok on his documentary, Cartlandia. The feature-length documentary explores the phenomenon of food carts in Portland and the cultural implications therein. In the following Q&A, the team reflects on their experience.
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  Alumnus helps local students create short documentary
  July 3
  Award-winning filmmaker Brian Lindstrom B.S. ’84 will premiere a youth video project, Dreamers, in Portland in July. The short documentary profiles six Portland teens who participate in an I Have a Dream Foundation program, designed to help low-income students be successful in school.
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  Sophomore takes home film festival honors
  May 6
  Laurel Sager ’15, a rhetoric and media studies major, took home second place in the Medford Mail Tribune’s third annual Two-Minute Film Festival.
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  Students earn internships at Cannes International Film Festival
  April 23
  Taylor Finch ’13 and Sofia Alicastro ’14 earned spots in the super-selective business internship program, which accepts only 25 students.
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  Alumna to film a documentary about sun bears
  March 4
  Jocelyn Stokes ‘07, founder and director of Survival of the Sun Bears, is aiming to bring awareness of the plight of the sun bears - the smallest of all bears - whose habitat and survival is threatened.