Metamora Films: Transforming Hearts and Minds through Film

Metamora Film Festival Site Has Launched June 30, 2017 Metamora Films continues to expand in 2017! Keeping with a similar mission as Metamora Films, the festival strives to promote indie films that inspire, transform and educate. The festival recognizes filmmakers in their creative film endeavors and hopes to impact the world using the power of film.  Dramas, documentaries, shorts, student films, social justice, human rights, spiritual…these are just a few examples of genres presented at the Metamora Film Festival .  The festival awards prizes 3x per year: spring, summer and fall. After a successful spring, 2017 session, Director, Matt Duhamel says he hopes that in 2018, the festival can hold live film screenings either in Vancouver, Washington or Portland, Oregon.  Co-Directors and judges of the festival include: Deanna Hays of Santa Rosa, CA and Carolyn Esparza of Dallas, Texas. The Me...

   ‘Everyone Deserves A Place To Live’ – NOT FOR RENT! Documentary Film In Post-Production Phase November 11, 2016 NOT FOR RENT! , our latest documentary film project is currently in the post-production and pre-release marketing phase.  An April, 2017 release is planned. We’re excited to be promoting this eye-opening documentary film about people living with a felony record and the housing restrictions they face everyday in the United States.   With new announcements from HUD earlier this year and talk of more rehabilitation rather than prison sentences, we feel this is a perfect time to release a film about former inmates and the challenges they face during community reentry. Why produce a film about rental housing and ex-felons?  Here are some stats that are worth reading: Ex-felons suffer a higher rate of homelessness. People convicted of certain sex offenses and drug crimes are prohibited from public housin...

We are excited to be launching a complete overhaul of our Metamora Films ‘ website.  Since our website launch May 2013, we’ve undergone two website re-designs.  I remember designing our first simple layout during that spring and was excited to get Metamora Films and our mission out to the world.  Since our inception, our website traffic has grown significantly.  Generally, we advertise our films and projects by word of mouth, social media, and interaction with the public during our film releases and public speaking presentations such as the workshop I gave earlier this year at the InterNational Prisoner’s Family Conference in Dallas, Texas.  You can also check out our new logo film opener which was released in June: In addition to our new look, we’ve revamped MetamoraTV and introduced our first video podcast, ‘ Solitary Nation ‘. MetamoraTV produces thought-provoking journalism through video, photography, artwork, writing, graphic arts and any...