Brentwood Library Showing GOOD BYE LENIN on Tuesday

good bye lenin movie poster

The Brentwood Library’s Foreign Film Festival offers GOOD BYE LENIN on Tuesday, May 10th. Synopsis: In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma; a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. What: GOOD BYE LENIN, [...]

Brentwood Library Showing SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS Tuesday

Something Like Happiness movie poster

The Brentwood Library’s Foreign Film Festival offers SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS on Tuesday, April 12th. Synopsis: Monika, Tonik and Dasha grew up together, but now as adults, each possess something the others intensely desire–uncovering hidden feelings of longing, desire and loneliness. Czech Republic. Official Selection – New York Film Festival. What: SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS no rating; [...]

Beginning Filmmaking Workshop Sunday March 27th

Count Zee - Make Your Movie

Join us for a Beginning Filmmaking Workshop this Sunday, March 27th at the Creamery Arts Center. Filmmaker John “Count Zee” Senovich will offer an introductory workshop that will help you learn how to take your story from concept to finished product. What: Beginning Filmmaking Workshop When: Sunday, March 27 · 1:30pm – 3:30pm Where: Creamery [...]

Brentwood Library Showing REPRISE on Tuesday

Reprise movie poster

The Brentwood Library’s Foreign Film Festival offers REPRISE on Tuesday, March 8th. Synopsis: Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers. What: REPRISE rated R; Norwegian with English subtitles. When: Tuesday March 8th, 6:30 pm Where: Brentwood Branch Library 2214 Brentwood Blvd. Springfield, MO [...]

Queen City Cinema Wants To Screen Your Film

Queen City Cinema poster

The “Queen City Cinema” film series, dedicated to screening the works of Springfield-area filmmakers, returns on Tuesday, March 1st. Showtime is 8:30 pm and we’ve been having a lot of fun! The free film series, which will take place the first Tuesday of the month January through May, 2011 is at the Moxie Cinema. Supported [...]

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

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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 [...]

See SUMMER CHILDREN Tuesday – Shot By Vilmos Zsigmond

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Fresh from it’s World Premiere at Slamdance on Monday, Springfield native Jack Robinette brings his remastered film to the Queen City Cinema film series on Tuesday. UPDATE – screening moved to February 8th, 9pm due to snowstorm The film was made in 1965 on Catalina Island and locations around LA. The movie was shot by [...]

Drury University Professor Receives Grant for Documentary Project

Dr Monty Dobson

From Drury University SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jan. 21, 2011 —Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Monty Dobson received a $10,000 grant from the Kirby Foundation for the production of a documentary film about the Native American culture near St. Louis. Dobson’s company ShovelReady Productions will produce the film Cahokia: Native American City of Mystery. The film examines the [...]

Summer Children Accepted To Slamdance

Summer Children

Summer Children, a black & white feature film shot in 1965, has been included in the SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL SCREENINGS PROGRAM. The Festival is in Park City, UT and runs concurrently with Sundance from January 21-27, 2011. The film was produced by Springfield native (Greenwood 1955/Southwest Missouri State 1959) and resident Jack Robinette and [...]

Chris Beckman’s Going To Sundance – You Can Help

Sophie Parker and Chris Beckman viewing Sundance Short Film Competition announcement

Park City, UT – The Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. This year the Festival’s Short Film Program comprises 81 short films from U.S. and international filmmakers selected from 6,467 submissions up 6% over 2010. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 [...]

Chris Beckman Win’s Vimeo National Award

Chris Beckman, from his Facebook page

From the Vimeo website: We are very proud to announce the winners of the 2010 Vimeo Awards. These exemplary films and videos were culled form over 6500 submissions and voted on by our esteemed judges. Chris’s film won the Experimental Award – Short films/videos that experiment with new ideas, forms, techniques, and expressions that are [...]

This Is The Orange Line accepted to Cucalorus Film Festival

This is the Orange Line film poster

This Is the Orangle Line is described by writer and director Nathan Maulorico as An experimental documentary film about the shapes and movement of the Chicago (CTA) Orange Line L Train from day to night. The short includes a soundtrack that is a Cello Concerto by Edward William Elgar, thanks to Naxos Rights International Ltd. [...]

BBQ Guys Grew Their Revenue 48% – Thanks to Video!

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From the Youtube Blog comes this growth story – If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million We sell everything from home furniture and fireplaces to kitchen cookware, but our true passion is barbecuing and grills. We’re in BBQ country, where people are fanatical about barbecuing and smoking. [...]

Food Network “The Opener” To Feature Savor on C-Street

Savor Cafe & Bakehouse

From the KY3 story – SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Two first-time restaurant owners are opening Savor on Commercial Street despite the current climate. It’s still a few weeks away from opening but will get some national attention when it’s featured on The Food Network. Their new restaurant, Savor, is already generating buzz from The Food Network. [...]

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 [...]