Winter’s Bone DVD Released

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It’s available! Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, this tense, naturalistic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly as she confronts the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father, who has put up the family homestead for his bail. [...]

The Last Days of Extraordinary Lives: A full-length film by Randy Bacon Screens Oct 16th

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A Taste of Hollywood Arrives at The Gillioz Theatre! The Last Days of Extraordinary Lives, a A full-length film by Randy Bacon premieres October 16th with a Red Carpet Documentary World Fundraiser. Recognized photographer Randy Bacon, along with his wife and partner, Shannon, have taken the plunge into filmmaking. Bacon will unveil his first feature [...]

One80 Film Festival Saturday!

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The Council of Churches of the Ozarks invites you to their inaugural One80 Film Festival. The Top 10 3-minute films will be screened along with plenty of fun activities for the family. The films are all designed to address the counter-intuitive teachings of Jesus as their subject. A panel of local filmmakers acted as judges [...]

Movies at Founders Park Aug 27 Includes “Love” and “Clink” from SATO48

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Movies at Founders Park wraps up for the summer with the movies this Friday and Saturday evening in downtown Springfield. Movies begin at dusk and I’d recommend lawn chairs or comfortable blankets for perching on the many choices within the park. This weeks movies are: Friday August 27 – “Princess and the Frog” (G) Saturday [...]

Winter’s Bone Stands Out On The Indie Circuit

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From Variety and their story Distrib Uncertainty Colors Fall Film Festivals: The good news is that, even with all companies exiting indie distribution over the past several years, the parties still in business continue to need fresh fare. Many of the films premiering at Venice, Telluride and Toronto already have distribution, but a few titles [...]

Missouri State Student Films Being Screened At The Moxie

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From the Facebook event page for the evening: Moxie Cinema is excited to present a collection of short films from students in the Media, Journalism and Film Department at MSU. A portion of the night’s proceeds will help underwrite their scholarship in digital filmmaking. The films to be shown are: 1. Overcome – 90 seconds [...]

Movies At Founders Park Aug 20th feature Color Theory and The Colors of Adolescence

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Movies at Founders Park continues this week with movies on Friday and Saturday evening in downtown Springfield. Movies begin at dusk and I’d recommend lawn chairs or comfortable blankets for perching on the many choices within the park. This weeks movies are: Friday August 20 – “UP” (PG) Saturday August 21 – “Transformers: Revenge of [...]

See SATO48 Films “Soldier” and “Granted” at Founders Park Movies Saturday

Movies at Founders Park continues this week with movies on Friday and Saturday evening in downtown Springfield. Movies begin at dusk and I recommend lawn chairs or comfortable blankets for perching on the many choices within the park. This weeks movies are: Friday August 13 – “Fame” (PG) Saturday August 14 – “Invictus” (PG-13) • [...]

SATO48 Film “The Maiden Voyage of August Juncture’s Incredible ‘Time Machine’” at Founders Park Movies

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Movies at Founders Park continues this week with movies on Friday and Saturday evening in downtown Springfield. Movies begin at dusk and I’d recommend lawn chairs or comfortable blankets for perching on the many choices within the park. This weeks movies are: Friday August 6 – “Astro Boy” (PG) Saturday August 7 – “The Blind [...]

Moxie Cinema Screening Four Local Indie Films June 29-30

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This just in – Moxie Cinema has put together an evening of independent film featuring four locally produced short films. From the Facebook event, here are the early details: A showing of four films [one ticket, four movies, bro] will take place on Tuesday, June 29th and Wednesday, June 30th at The Moxie. Showtimes and [...]

Winter’s Bone Advanced Screening Thursday – Opens Friday at Campbell 16 Cine

(St. Louis, MO – June 10, 2010) Winter’s Bone, a movie filmed in Southwest, MO, opens throughout the Midwest Friday, June 18, 2010. However, Springfield residents wanting to enjoy the big screen presence early have that opportunity. Wehrenberg Theatres proudly announces a special “Red Carpet” Advance Screening of Winter’s Bone Thursday, June 17 at 7:30 [...]

Springfield Loves “Winter’s Bone”, Returns June 18th

Debra Granik, Director with Chris Louzader, MFAS Board member

I thought I’d pull together the coverage the Springfield premiere screening of “Winter’s Bone” attracted. For those that missed the sold-out show at Plaster Theater, mark June 18th on your calendar as the return date. It will be showing at Wehrenberg’s Campbell 16 theater and I’ve heard rumors of a red carpet style bash that [...]

Winter’s Bone Screening Draws Sell Out Crowd To MSU Campus

Director/Screenwriter Debra Granik (standing) and Exec Producer Jonathan Scheuer (seated, in cap) with sell out crowd

The photos are from the event, the song is “Palm of My Hand” by Dirt Road Delight Band, from the Winter’s Bone soundtrack.

Lauren Sweetser A Featured Missouri State Graduate

Missouri State University will confer 2,539 degrees during the spring commencement ceremony May 14 at JQH Arena. Graduates from the colleges of Arts and Letters, Education and Humanities and Public Affairs will receive their degrees at 5 p.m. that day. One of the 2,539 spring graduates is Lauren Sweetser, a student in the College of [...]

Fifth Annual SATO48 Awards Ceremony Rocks The Gillioz

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The fifth incarnation of the annual SATO48 Awards Ceremony pointed tonight to the progress and development of the event. More importantly it reflects the impact that founders Jeff Clinkenbeard and Kyaw Tha Hla have had on the local film community. By attracting almost 90 teams to participate with 77 completing the 48 hour challenge and [...]