WIA Portland

Happy Le***an Visibility Day! 🧡🤍🩷 We give our love and support to ALL le****ns not just today but every day, and celebrate their lasting impact on communities everywhere.

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Check your emails for an invite to a special in-person screening of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, followed by a Q&A featuring Director Merlin Crossingham and moderated by Toby Froud from . A big thank you to our friends at for extending the invitation to our members!

Join us for the panel Breaking Barriers: Alternative Tech Careers in Animation and VFX tomorrow at featuring pros from , , , and !
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🎉🧠 Trivia Night Alert! 🧠🎉

Join us for an exciting evening of Portland-focused Animation, VFX, and Film trivia hosted by WIA Portland!

📍 Location: Rouge Eastside Pub, 928 SE 9th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM

Test your knowledge, have some fun, and connect with fellow animation fans. Stick around after the trivia to network and make new friends in the industry!

Don't miss out—see you there!

Say hello to our new Co-Lead, Sara Hofstein! 👏 Her career has spanned all four corners of the US and into Europe. She moved in 2021 to Portland, Oregon, where she worked as the Senior Visual Effects Coordinator for the Los Angeles branch of . Her recent credits include The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Hocus Pocus 2 and Unfrosted. She is currently a Producer at ! 🎮
Sara gives back to her community through volunteering on the board of the 501(c)(3) organization Women in Film Portland, as Co-Lead of WIA Portland since January of this year and as a Mentor for the latest WIA Mentorship Circle. She is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America, ASIFA-Hollywood, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Visual Effects Society.
You can learn more about Sara and her work by following her on Instagram or by checking out her professional work on LinkedIn. We are so pleased to have Sara and Christina with us can't wait to see how the WIA Portland community grows with these two at the helm!