Tempest Pictures Casting Call At The Moxie Friday!

Tempest Pictures will be holding its first open casting call for a new television test-pilot in January, where auditions will be held at the New Moxie Cinema! We’re looking for available talent of all ages to participate in this audition, so we can get this project under way! We hope to begin production very soon, [...]

Springfield Connection At This Year’s Grammy’s

For those of you planning on watching the Grammy’s, or considering it, there is a local connection this year. Paul Crowder, who is married to Kelly H’Doubler (Glendale HS graduate), is nominated for his movie – “Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who” Paul and Kelly participated in the 2007 Show-Me Missouri International Film Festival, [...]

Winter’s Bone Casting Call January 10th

Registration for people who want to be extras in the feature film “Winter’s Bone” will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Forsyth High School gymnasium, 178 Panther Drive in Forsyth. Producers are seeking adults and school-aged children for the project. “We are also interested in babies around 8 months [...]

IndieVest Offering Independent Movie Investment Model

From the Wall Street Journal: High-Risk Glamour: A Piece of an Indie Flick IndieVest Members Pay Fee, Get Right to Buy Into a Film IndieVest Inc. is bringing the concept of fractional ownership to people who want to invest in movies, hoping that its financial model will prove profitable in a trying era for independent [...]

Springfield’s Motion Media Expo This Friday October 10th

Motion Media Expo

SPRINGFIELD’S FIRST ‘MOTION MEDIA EXPO’ TO BE HELD OCTOBER 10TH AT KEYES ART GALLERY, DOWNTOWN SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD, MO (October 1, 2008) – Springfield’s first MOTION MEDIA EXPO will be held at the Keyes Art Gallery, 229 South Market Avenue, Friday, October 10th, 8:00 to 11:00 PM. This Motion Media Expo has been organized for producers, [...]

A side of the film industry most people never see

I’ve been meaning to point to this film industry blog for awhile and have finally gotten around to it. You’ll find a link to “Peggy Archers” three most recent posts on the far right side under the blog title “Totally Unauthorized“. Here’s her “About Me” section. Enjoy! I work in the film industry, as a [...]

Missouri Filmmaker Documenting Democratic National Convention

David Wilson AJ Schnack at DNC

There’s a nice story in Indiewire on AJ Schnack’s ‘dream team’ that is documenting the recently completed Democratic National Convention. Schnack (“Kurt Cobain About a Son”) has titled the effort “Convention”. Currently on a break from the documentary that he and the True/False Film Festival’s David Wilson have been making in Missouri this summer, Schnack [...]

Submit Your Script to “Springfield 417 – Periods of Revelation”

Springfield 417 The Movie

Springfield 417- The Movie project for 2009 Friends, writers, gather ‘round… We’re still gathering scenes from different writers to put together into a vignette movie of Springfield, Missouri. The working title is: “SPRINGFIELD 417— Periods of Revelation.” We’re looking to do several 5 to 7 minute shorts that can be filmed somewhere in Springfield, Missouri, [...]

“Horde” Goes To Post-Production

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I got this email last night, another production goes into Post. My name is Joshua Jones and I am a part of True Indie Films. We just wrapped up shooting on our short film that will be turned into a feature film next summer. I have posted a quicktime clip of the first scene for [...]

New Music Video Directed By Brook Linder For SSLYBY

Recent Glendale graduate Brook Linder combines with local music heroes “Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin” for the music video for “Modern Mystery” from their “Pershing” album. Is that white house on Catalina? Hat tip to Caleb Copeland for the pointer.

Short Film “True To Life” Seeks Extras and Crew

A local short film is about to begin production and is looking for additional extras and crew. Here’s the shooting schedule and general requirements. Contact information is at the bottom or check out the Facebook Group All of you who said you wanted to help….now’s your chance. We are scheduled to shoot throughout August, detailed [...]

“About A Son” Director AJ Schnack On His Branson Project

david and AJ In branson

AJ Schnack, Director of “About a Son: The Kurt Cobain Story” writes on his blog about his current project that is underway in Branson, Missouri: For the past two months, I’ve been spending the majority of my time not in Los Angeles, but in Branson, Missouri, at work on a new nonfiction feature about the [...]

“True to Life” Benefit Concert Sunday At Big Momma’s

From the Green Glass Productions Facebook event page: We are in pre-production for an up and coming short film called “True to Life” written by Jana Thomas and directed by Jonna Howes. Making good movies costs money. Come and jam out to some amazing music and support our film. $3 cover (gets you 1 free [...]

Video Log of Life Along the Mississippi River – Editors Sought

SENT VIA THE STLFILMWIRE: I’m looking for video editors who would be interested in being part of a crew that documents a canoe trip down the Mississippi river. For students it could be a unique chance to build upon your portfolio. Or if you’ve got editing experience you might enjoy this adventurous project. Here are [...]

Short Film “Sides” Open Casting Call

On May 24th and 25th True Indie Films will be holding an open casting call. Everybody is invited to come down to the Creamery Arts Center and audition. No need to make an appointment, just show up between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. The Arts Center is located at 411 N. Sherman Parkway in Springfield. [...]