Keith Moncrief — 2012 Board Candidate Bio

Keith Moncrief Producer, Actor Co-Founder & Board Member of The Missouri Film Alliance of Springfield   Who am I My earliest memories are of my twin brother, my family & Television. I’m old enough to remember when television was something that families gathered around and watched together. Though my playpen I could see the images [...]

Open Casting Call Saturday for The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Hilary Duff

A new movie entitled THE STORY OF BONNIE AND CLYDE will begin shooting in the Joplin area soon. Described on the IMBD website as featuring an account of the career of the infamous and notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang, the film will feature Hilary Duff, Kevin Zegers and Michael Madsen as well [...]

Coming Soon to Mattel’s Green Lantern – Marshfield’s Noah Harden

noah harden, marshfield

With the attention to WINTER’S BONE and filmmaking in this region, I reached out to a young man and his mother who recently took an important step. Noah Harden and his mother Stacie are in Burbank, having made the decision to go to Hollywood and see if Noah could develop his acting career there. Here [...]

Just Another Wednesday Casting Call In Springfield Sept 2nd

Film production

Just Another Wednesday, LLC is producing an ambitious fifteen-minute short that will be used to sell a feature length narrative set at Lake of the Ozarks. We are currently casting for many key roles and extras, with a casting call scheduled for Thursday, September 2 in Springfield, MO. With this ensemble cast we are looking [...]

Hannah Montana Casting Director Offering Young Talent Workshops in Kansas City

Disney Acting Workshop featuring Howard Meltzer

The following information is from the KC Film Commission website: Howard Meltzer, the award-winning Hollywood based Casting Directory for Disney’s Hannah Montana is coming to Kansas City. The Workshop will include talent reading a scene from a top notch show with Howard (one on one) and he will be redirecting/working with them. He will also [...]

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 [...]

Winter’s Bone Lead Jennifer Lawrence Chosen For NY Times Nifty 50

Jennifer Lawrence

From the NY Times interview with Jennifer as part of their Nifty 50 up-and-coming talent list The star of “Winter’s Bone,” a moody mystery set in the Ozarks which just won the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is a 19-year-old actress from Kentucky named Jennifer Lawrence. She was discovered while still in junior [...]

Screenwriting Workshops At Missouri State on Saturday

On Saturday, March 20, 2010, American screenwriters Paul Guyot and Jack Snyder will participate in afternoon workshops, a film showing, and an evening lecture. Free and open to the public, these events will take place on the Missouri State University campus. Screenwriter Paul Guyot will lead a student workshop on writing for television. His workshop [...]

Casting Call: JO VS Web Series

Jo VS

A horror comedy about a OCD girl, who doesn’t take risks or like complications. Her life turns upside down when she has to fight off monsters, creatures and evil things in the most random times. Trying to get by her sexist boss, her womanizer best friend, and trying to be noticed by her crush in [...]

Casting Call For “Summer Of The Spy: Continues

For the Missouri State University student production Summer of the Spy, auditions for the leads parts are outlined below. The production will be taking place during the last weekend of March from March 25th to March 28th. What: Casting Call – Summer of the Spy When: Saturday February 20th, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Where: [...]

Casting Call – for “Summer of the Spy” This Saturday

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt from "Mr and Mrs Smith"

This casting call is for one of the MEDIA 562 projects at Missouri State University. The film Summer of the Spy will hold auditions for three parts in the film.

What: Casting Call
Where: Craig Hall 203, Missouri State University
When: 12:00 – 3:30 pm Saturday 2/13/2010
for auditions….

We are looking for:

Screenwriters to Speak, Show Film, Lead Workshops at Missouri State University

MSU English Society screenwriting event flier

On Saturday, January 30, 2010, American screenwriters Paul Guyot and Jack Snyder will participate in afternoon workshops, a film showing, and an evening lecture. Free and open to the public, these events will take place on the Missouri State University campus. Screenwriter Paul Guyot will lead a student workshop on writing for television. His workshop [...]

MacLaren And Brown Featured In Headliner News

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A pair of Nixa High School graduates, students of original MFAS President Scott-Arthur Allen and his wife Elizabeth at Creative Actors Workshop, are featured in the Christian County Headliner for their work in the Winters Bone feature film. Local actors to appear on big screen -‘Winter’s Bone’ premiers at Sundance Film Festival. By: Amelia Wigton, [...]

Creative Actors Showcase 2009

Phil Brock, Studio Talent Group

Come be entertained by 32 of our professionally trained actors. They will be performing 16, 3 to 4 minute scenes with two actors in each scene. This was an annual event in Los Angeles for over thirty years, where many of your current stars were discovered, and is now continuing here in Missouri. Only actors [...]