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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This posting expires on Monday, Dec. 5th at 6pm CST. The Festival Coordinator plans, oversees and manages all aspects of AMC Theatres Kansas City FilmFest, an annual, five-day festival that takes place primarily at AMC Mainstreet in Kansas City, Missouri.

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.

You’re invited to CinemaKC’s fall fundraiser, “Go to 11 on 11-11-11 with Spinal Tap.” The event includes a screening and celebration of the classic rock ’n’ roll mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap, on Friday Nov. 11, 2011 at the Screenland Crossroads Theatre, 1656 Washington. Tickets are $11.

Relive the sights, the sounds and the smells of [...]

At the K.U. Spencer Museum of Art on Sunday, October 16, O’Neal will introduce his award-winning film and, following the screening, answer questions from the audience. The film screening is free and open to the public and is from 3:30-5:30 PM. O’Neal also will conduct a special screenwriting workshop for artists from 1–3 PM.

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 [...]

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 [...]