Oregon Film Museum Selig Award

The Oregon Film Museum is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2nd annual “Oregon Film Museum Selig Award,” which honors a young filmmaker with a promising future.

In partnership with Outside the Frame, we are excited to award the 2024 Selig Award to Violet Clyne. Violet has created several films with Outside the Frame, including In Between, The Spot, and American Teenager. She will receive the Selig Award and a stipend at a ceremony on December 7 at 7:00 p.m. at the Liberty Theater in Astoria.

The film American Teenager, for which Clyne wrote the script, will be screened at the award presentation, followed by a Q&A. American Teenager is centered on a young girl with an absent mother and draws from the experiences of its creators. This event is FREE and open to the public.

Clyne, who has lived in Oregon since she was six, has experienced homelessness intermittently throughout her teenage years. At eighteen, she moved from Wilsonville to Portland and stayed at the Porchlight homeless youth shelter before moving to transitional housing.

Outside the Frame is a dynamic non-profit organization in Portland: We train homeless and marginalized youth to be directors of their own films and lives. In addition, OTF offers a creative outlet, job skills, an audience, and a sense of dignity and possibility through filmmaking. Because if youth experiencing homelessness can make films, they can do anything.

The Oregon Film Museum Selig Award is named after William Selig, whose Selig Polyscope Company was a pioneering motion picture company widely credited with creating Hollywood, the cliffhanger, multi-reel films, travelogues, and other innovations. In 1909, the company filmed The Fisherman’s Bride in Astoria, the first commercial film with a plot filmed in Oregon.

For more information about Outside the Frame: https://www.outsidetheframe.org.

For more information about this event or other Clatsop County Historical Society activities, please call 503-325-2203 or e-mail: info@astoriamuseums.org.

Clatsop County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of Clatsop County, Oregon, and the surrounding area. The Society operates the Flavel House Museum, the Heritage Museum, the Oregon Film Museum, and the Uppertown Firefighters Museum.