By ROBERT W. BUTLER
Years ago the president of the KC Independent Filmmakers Coalition described his job as “trying to teach cats to march.”
We may never get moviemakers to move in lockstep, but perhaps through the efforts of some local film supporters they all might be nudged in the same direction.
That’s the idea behind CinemaKC, a [...]

‘NEXT!‘, the creative brainchild of Kansas City-based casting director Heather Laird took top honors in the Comedic Webisode category at the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) LATV Fest in Los Angeles.

 NEXT! was one of only three finalists selected. The web-based comedy was announced as the winning entry during the LATV Fest July [...]

 
The Best of Fest from Kansas City FilmFest is screening as part of the KC Fringe Festival. Tickets are $8, plus a one-time festival button fee of $5 which funds the festival and allows you to buy tickets for any performance for the rest of the festival.
Screenings are Wed. July 28th at 6pm and [...]

The web series NEXT! has been selected as a finalist at the NATPE LATV Fest, to be held in Los Angeles this July 12 – 15. The National Association of Television Program Executives is a Hollywood mainstay, dedicated to the “creation, development and distribution of televised programming”. The annual NATPE Market & Conference is considered [...]

FLIKS (Facilitated Film Discussions in Kansas) is a facilitated film and discussion program using short humanities-themed films to talk about both historical and contemporary topics of interest to Kansans. The FLIKS program will be utilized by libraries, museums, art centers, and other cultural organizations in Kansas.
Films can be documentary, fiction, animation, or experimental but must [...]

MovieSet revolutionizes entertainment marketing by enabling real-time engagement with the actual film production process.

It was the “Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast TV Weasel Roast” on March 4th that brought together volunteers from many of Kansas City’s film groups. Members from the Women of the Motion Picture Industry, Women in Film and Television, and the Independent Filmmaker’s Coalition joined up with the Kansas City Filmmakers [...]

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KU Alum Gordy Hoffman, the Sundance award-winning writer/director (LOVE LIZA, A COAT OF SNOW) and founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, comes back to Kansas City to lead a screenwriting workshop on Sunday, December 13th from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA, Gordy [...]

Truth Blues is an award winning independent short film made by Studio Artist user Mike Snell of Blue Wall Design. The film showcases some really creative ways to incorporate Studio Artist processing into an animated film that go way beyond the normal process the entire video frame in one pass approach that is typically used. [...]