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Missouri Film Alliance Newsletter: About A Son In Branson & KC Idols
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Sponsors update - if you haven't had a chance to show your support for Nonna's Italian American Cafe with your checkbook, here's an alternate opportunity. GO Magazine is soliciting votes for their annual "Hot List". Nonna's is included in the Hot Dinner Entertainment category.Vote for Show Tunes at Nonna's Cast Party =============== A.J. Schnack, Director of "About A Son: The Kurt Cobain Story", is working on a documentary about Branson, Missouri. From his blog:
"For the past two months, I've been spending the majority of my time not in Los Angeles, but in Branson, Missouri, at work on a new nonfiction feature about the community that Bart Simpson once referred to as "Vegas if Ned Flanders ran it" and once famously dubbed "the live entertainment capitol of the world".
For the first time in my filmmaking career, I am co-directing with my good friend David Wilson, whom most of you know as the co-conspirator behind the popular and influential True/False Film Festival, but who I have known for years as an accomplished artist in his own right." Here's the link to his story about the documentary. You can also find it on the MFAS blog!
"About A Son"" =============== Movies at Founders Park continues on Friday and Saturday evening through August. Let the folks at the ticket counter know you heard about the screenings here and appreciate their support of local film makers in this fashion. Here's a list of locally produced short-films that are being shown prior to the main feature. July 25th and 26th: "Playing with Fire" by JJ Sturgeon
August 2nd: "Doing What We Know" by unknownfilms
August 9th: " Double or Nothing" by SpeedyProductions There are several more in process, I'll keep you up-to-date as always via our blog and this newsletter. Here's the link to the Founders Park schedule. =============== KC 48 Hour Film Project The 48 Hour Film Project is coming to Kansas City! In a wild, sleepless weekend, your team will make a movie: write, shoot, edit and score it! From scratch! On Friday, August 15th, you will be given a line of dialogue, prop, character and genre: All to be included in your film. By Sunday August 17th, your movie must be completed. It will be shown at the Glenwood Arts Theater the following week! Registration Deadline - July 28th
Meet & Greet event - July 30th http://www.48hourfilm.com/kansascity/ =============== Film Maker Networking with MFAS Wednesday July 30th
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Moxie Cinema
408 W Walnut Street Join us for our monthly networking event. We had a dozen folks in June and one of the highlights was Drew's short film "Stop". A stop action film by the high school junior, it had the entire group digging into his experience shooting it and drew high praise (look for it at Founder's Park in August!). If you'd like to show your trailer, short or work-in-progress, contact Cina Canada at c.canada@mac.com or call her at 417.860.9948. While you're at it, congratulate her on becoming an Aunt! The movie "Mongol", about Ghengis Khan, is showing that evening at 6:00 pm. Academy Award nominated, here's a recent review by photographer Rick Sammons who just completed a photo shoot in Mongolia
"I just saw the movie, Mongol. It is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen. The photography is stunning, breathtaking.It's a must-see for movie-goers - and anyone interested in filmmaking."
http://www.moxiecinema.com/films/332 =============== Production Assistants Needed In KC August 5th through 8th for "American Idol" This is NOT for performers or fans, please don't contact them unless you are available and have experience. Contact them at kcfilmcommission@themckellargroup.com. =============== Ira Glass Is Coming! (to St Louis) What's that sound? Is it the whirring of printers thumping out tickets for Prison Performing Arts presents An Evening with Ira Glass at the Pageant on Sept. 27? It is! Saturday Sept. 27 at 8 pm
The Pageant | Delmar Loop | 6161 Delmar Blvd. | 63130
General Admission tickets (non-reserved seats) are $35.
Preferred Seating tickets (reserved seats) are $60. Ira Glass is the host and producer of the public radio program This American Life. The show had its premiere on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ in late 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.7 million listeners. It's finally available in Springfield IF you have HD radio, available on KSMU's 2nd channel on Friday's and Saturday's. Check out www.prisonperformingarts.org for more details!
http://www.irascoming.com/index.php ===============
THE END As always, if you have a production, casting call or general info to share with us, send it my way! Steve Ole Olson
President, Missouri Film Alliance of Springfield
417-569-8062, mobile/text
email: solson@missourifilm.org