Astoria Picture Show is a nonprofit film organization rooted in Astoria, Oregon. We run curated mini-fests, a large annual festival, a year-round community film school, and regular screenings and special events — all built around one conviction: that this place deserves cinema that pays attention.
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What ties this organization together is a belief in cinema that pays attention — honest, strange, alive work that makes you feel something you didn’t expect. We show it. We teach people to make it. And we help fund it when it’s being made right here.
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Here’s a number that should not be true for a beginner filmmaking class in a town of about ten thousand people: nearly two dozen. That’s how many showed up for the first session of our Film 1 class at Clatsop Community College. Some people put a lot of miles on their car to be there.…
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There’s a question worth asking: why here? Not in a self-deprecating way. We know why we love this town. But from a purely logistical standpoint, why would a studio in Los Angeles, with the entire continental United States at its disposal, keep sending film crews to a small fishing and cannery town at the rainy…
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There’s a version of small-town history where the past gets cleared away to make room for whatever comes next. The Victorian houses come down for ranch-style sprawl. The working waterfront completely disappears, making way for all-new Anywhere USA structures. The old essentially becomes a memory instead of a neighbor. Astoria didn’t really do that. Drive…
