2011 Work-in-Progress-Screened Film Gets Anchor Bay Deal
January 31st, 2012 – 10:02 pm | No Comment

Biehn wrote the script and made his directorial debut with this film, a suspense thriller about a ruggedly handsome recluse (Biehn) living in the woods far from civilization, when a single knock on his door throws his solitary life into chaos.
Biehn, the star of The Terminator, Aliens, and Planet Terror, attended the screening with his [...]

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Reel Spirit – Young Filmmakers Reap the Rewards of Industry Experience
January 31st, 2012 – 10:06 pm | No Comment

Reel Spirit – Young Filmmakers Reap the Rewards of Industry Experience

Celebrating local young filmmakers in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Reel Spirit is the youth alliance for AMC Kansas City FilmFest, the region’s largest film festival. Scheduled this year for April 14, there is still time to submit a film for competition. Reel Spirit was founded by local educators Barbara Noble, Becky Palmer, [...]

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2011 FilmFest Shorts Filmmaker Wins Two Screenplay Awards
January 31st, 2012 – 9:48 pm | No Comment
2011 FilmFest Shorts Filmmaker Wins Two Screenplay Awards

Devi Snively, a filmmaker who attended FilmFest last year with her short film Last Seen On Delores Street, has won two screenplay awards in the Park City, Utah’s Table Read My Screenplay competition for her feature Love in the Time of Zombies. The screenplay won a prize for Best Horror category, as well as [...]

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2011 FilmFest opener makes world tour
November 10th, 2011 – 10:53 am | No Comment
2011 FilmFest opener makes world tour

Happy New Year, a feature film that played at FilmFest 2011, has been popular with many festivals. It was part of the Narrative Competition at the South By Southwest film festival in March and won Best Actor and Best Director awards at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIFF) in August. It just recently had its European premiere at the Oldenburg Film Festival (often referred to as the “German Sundance”) and took home the German Independence Audience Award for Best Picture.

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2010 award winner credits FilmFest for successful launch
November 10th, 2011 – 10:47 am | One Comment
2010 award winner credits FilmFest for successful launch

The writer/director of Fanny, Annie & Danny, the film that won the Best US / International Narrative award at the 2010 Kansas City FilmFest, recently contacted the FilmFest to give an update on the film, which he says the festival “helped launch into the world.”

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Print program wins local communications award
November 10th, 2011 – 10:42 am | No Comment
Print program wins local communications award

The print program used by thousands at 2011 FilmFest won a first place award in Nonprofit Connect’s 9th Annual Philly Awards Honoring Excellence in Nonprofit Communications. Jeph Scanlon, executive director of the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee is pictured with Dana Weaver, co-chair of the Philly Awards. The FilmFest program was recognized in the Print Magazine category of the competition at the Nonprofit Connect awards luncheon on October 18 at the downtown Kansas City Convention Center.

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2011 FilmFest Winner Receives International Acclaim
October 12th, 2011 – 12:08 pm | One Comment
2011 FilmFest Winner Receives International Acclaim

A Kansas-lensed feature film, which premiered at the 2011 AMC Theatres® Kansas City FilmFest, won the festival’s Independent Best Heartland Narrative Feature and went on to win fans on both sides of the Atlantic. Au Pair, Kansas, which was written, directed and produced by KU graduate JT O’Neal, also received the Best Low Budget [...]

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Looking Back: The History of the Kansas City FilmFest
October 12th, 2011 – 12:00 pm | No Comment
Looking Back: The History of the Kansas City FilmFest

The next annual AMC Theatres® Kansas City FilmFest, scheduled for April 2012 at AMC’s downtown Mainstreet theater, will showcase local, regional and international short and feature-length films over the span of five days.
Prizes will be handed out. Panels and workshops on different areas of the filmmaking process will be offered. Many of the filmmakers [...]

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“Get Twisted” at the 2011 Tallgrass Film Festival
October 12th, 2011 – 11:55 am | No Comment
“Get Twisted” at the 2011 Tallgrass Film Festival

The ninth annual Tallgrass Film Festival is set for Oct. 20-23 and will take place at more than 16 venues in and around downtown Wichita, Kansas. The festival showcases 45 independent feature films representing 21 countries from around the world, and nearly twice as many short films. This year’s festival will also present one [...]

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Happy New Year Heads to NY
October 11th, 2011 – 9:36 am | No Comment
Happy New Year Heads to NY

After an incredibly successful festival tour, Happy New Year, the opening night film for AMC Theatres® Kansas City FilmFest in April 2011, heads to New York. The film was well received around the country and at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in Germany in September.
The New York premiere of the film will be at the [...]

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The Economics of Indie Filmmaking
September 17th, 2011 – 1:33 pm | No Comment
The Economics of Indie Filmmaking

For filmmaker Jon Foy it began, as many mysteries do, with an unexpected twist of fate — in this case, a prank phone call in the middle of the night picked up by someone other than the intended target.

But before that, there were the tiles. Starting sometime in the 1980s, cryptic messages began to appear embedded in the roadways of cities across the U.S. and South America. Linoleum tiles, most roughly the size of a U.S. automobile license plate, were fused into the asphalt, carved with some variation of the message…

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Broderick’s Distribution Bulletin # 16 Is Out
July 9th, 2011 – 3:53 pm | No Comment
Broderick’s Distribution Bulletin # 16 Is Out

2008 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee guest Peter Broderick has just released the latest edition of his e-mail newsletter, The Distribution Bulletin. #16: SPECIAL REPORT: HOW FILMS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD is available on Peter’s website, peterbroderick.com. Subscribe to Peter’s newsletter.
This Special Report includes exclusive coverage of the studies of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and WAITING [...]