15th Annual

We Like Em Short Film Fest

August 22 thru 25th, 2024

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WLES celebrating 15 years of Short Films in Baker City

We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival celebrates Animation and Comedic short films. We provide a platform for independent filmmakers, seasoned and emerging, to share their talent. This festival seeks original, entertaining animated and comedy shorts from around the world.

We Like ‘Em Short allows aspiring and professional filmmakers the chance to show their films in beautiful Baker City, a small community known for embracing the arts.

WLES was started in 2010 as a very small local festival featuring local and American filmmakers. In 2012 we began taking submissions online and thanks to that change, we’ve screened films from all over the world while still priding ourselves as a festival that showcases local and regional filmmakers.

WLES has seen it’s share of international award winning shorts and hosted talented directors including Joan Gratz, Jim Blashfield. Mark Gustafson, Chel White, Paul Harrod, Doug Lussenhop, and Joanna Priestly in recent editions of this four day festival. WLES is centrally located at the historic Churchill School in Baker City, OR.

We were honored to receive the Ovation Award from the Oregon Festival and Events Association in 2014, which recognized us as the Best Fine Art or Performing Arts Festival in Oregon.

We hope you’ll join us this August a festival of over 70 short films

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Where

Churchill School

3451 Broadway St.

Baker City, OR 97814

When

August 22, 2024

*Opening Night*

8pm – 9:15pm Drive in Movie

*Free and Family Friendly*

Friday 8/23 7pm $5 per person

Sat. 8/24 1pm $5 family friendly

Sat. 8/24 7pm $5

Sunday 8/25 6pm $5

 

Event Schedule

WLES 2024 Program

click the link above to view this year’s program

Meet the Filmmakers

List of visiting filmmakers TBA

Thanks to Our Sponsors

The Baker County Cultural Coalition

and Travel Baker County