A Mini-Film Festival, Featuring Portland

June 6th, 2006

Grab some popcorn, dim the lights, and huddle around your computer monitor for an evening of community exploration. I’m not talking about browsing CitySearch but rather watching mini-film stories on TurnHere.com.

TurnHere features a range of entertaining short films featuring neighborhoods, both famous and infamous, along with their inhabitants and their unique stories. Each movie is about 3 minutes long.

TurnHere is the most recent company to be founded by Brad Inman, an entrepreneur, journalist, and technology expert. He runs the popular Inman News Service, which covers the real estate industry.

TurnHere, Inc. is a digital media company with a unique mission. TurnHere produces professional digital videos, accessible on the Internet, which convey authentic experiences of places and leisure activities in cities and neighborhoods around the world. Each TurnHere digital film is driven by an individual filmmaker’s vision, translated into compelling storytelling, engaging narrators, insider perspective and high entertainment value.

TurnHere’s tagline: Short films, cool places. TurnHere leverages the the skills of local, independent filmmakers and charters them to make mini-video narratives of interesting neighborhoods and events. These aren’t sanitized, narrated Welcome Wagon DVDs, but gritty, fun vignettes that capture the local sights, sounds, and characters to tell the story.

TurnHere has been very prolific since their launch in January, and now have films from all parts of the country, and even some from Mexico City, Jerusalem, and even Reykjavik.

Here are the Portland-area stories: (I especially like the ’sordid’ OldTown clip.)

• OldTown Portland
• Sandy Boulevard
• Alberta Street
• Filmmaker’s Portland

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