The locally-lensed feature film, Works In Progress, debuted at FilmFest 2010 before two sold-out audiences. Now it’s out on DVD so that even more people can enjoy the story and the chance to see Kansas City locales shown lovingly on film. It has just been released for distribution by Vanguard Cinema and is available from many outlets and Amazon.com.

The film, which has played at nine different film festivals around the country, was directed by Stephen Pruitt and written by Pruitt and his wife, Mary Settle Pruitt, both of Overland Park, Kansas. In addition to FilmFest 2010, Works in Progress has played at festivals in San Antonio, Memphis, and the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis.

As described by the director, Works in Progress is a poignant, romantic comedy feature film that follows the lives of two recent small-town college fine art graduates and a successful, yet unfulfilled insurance professional during a magical summer in “the big city.” The film stars local actors Christina Blodgett, Greg Brostrom and Ben Jeffrey. According to an October 23 article in the Kansas City Star, “the film’s romantic themes weren’t only in the script. Blodgett and Jeffrey met on the set and are now married.”

Works in Progress is set in the present day (with brief flashbacks) in rural western Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.