Winter’s Bone, the Kansas City FilmFest’s opening night film in 2010 and a big winner at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, just received four Oscar nominations:
Best Picture
Adapted Screenplay – Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini from book by Daniel Woodrell
Actress in a Leading Role – Jennifer Lawrence
Actor in a Supporting Role – John Hawkes
Congratulations, Debra!
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We recommend that all residents of Missouri contact your state Senators and Representatives and let them know that a working film office is vital to Missouri’s economic health in the future as soon as possible.

Distribution U. is shaping up to be the essential event for independents determined to maximize their distribution.
This one-day crash course on the New Rules of Crowd Funding, Audience Building & Distribution is being held Saturday, November 13th in New York at NYU and the following Saturday, November 20th in Los Angeles, where it is co-sponsored [...]

IFP FILMMAKER CONFERENCE
September 19 – 23, 2010 – NYC
Taking place during the 32nd annual Independent Film Week, IFP’s five-day Filmmaker Conference: The Future of Film, is the must-attend event that welcomes the independent film community to participate in discussions on financing for docs and narrative films, finding an agent and manager, outreach and audience building, [...]

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 [...]

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