See Local Short Films Wednesday and Saturday At The Moxie

The New Stepdad from A5Films

The Moxie and Carver M. School Present a lineup of locally produced films this week. THIN AIR Missouri State Electronic Arts senior thesis project for Max Rosen, Sam Gibson, Garret Layman, and David Bae. It’s about a young woman struggling to make sense of life after her mother’s spontaneous combustion. Starring Inge Chiles, Ross Murphy, [...]

Queen City Cinema Film Series Begins Tuesday January 4th

Queen City Cinema poster

The Missouri Film Alliance and Moxie Cinema will open a FREE five-month “Queen City Cinema” series, dedicated to screening the works of Springfield-area filmmakers, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The free film series, which will take place the first Tuesday of the month January through May, 2011 begins at 9:30 p.m. at the Moxie Cinema, [...]

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 [...]

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

Maiden Voyage movie poster

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

Summer of the Spy_banner

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 [...]

Brook Linder Tops At Inaugural Missouri State Student Film Festival

The 1st Annual Missouri State University Film Festival screened their entries on May 5th at Plaster Theater on campus. The contest, open to students, faculty and staff, offered prizes for winners that include an Apple MacBook and a $500 Bookstore Gift Card. The theme was Your Missouri State Experience. Student judging took place during the [...]

Rock On Music Video Competition Announces Award Winners

Eli Cunningham, 2nd Place best video, "Mushroom Tea" & Audience Favorite Award

Monday night at The Moxie, the inaugural Rock On Music Video competition came to a close with screenings of all of the entries and distribution of the awards. MC and founder of the competition, Ryan Piotrowski, is shown with with Matt Stowe, Brook Linder and Max Rosen, winners of the award for Best Video for [...]

Glue Girl by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – By Brook Linder

The newest music video for Springfield’s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin has popped up on YouTube. The song is “Glue Girl” and you’ll recognize a number of locales including the Conco quarries in Galloway Village as Egypt, The Coffee Ethic as Brussels Belgium, the Moxie Cinema as Kyoto Japan, the original Moxie as Spain, [...]

Brook Linder Offers Feedback on Nikon D90 As Video Source

Brook Linder, Chicago Millenium Park

I recently asked Missouri State freshman Brook Linder to offer some feedback on his choice of a Nikon D90 not only for it’s photography but as a camcorder. He shared this short response with me (via Facebook) along with the short video he created while participating in the Hillcrest TV road trip that took them [...]

Casting Call: Music Video for MTV, Wednesday and Thursday!

Festival 2005 Workshop

Casting Call – Music Video for Grammy-nominated band, will air on MTV. Wednesday March, 4th 2009 5:00-800 PM @ The Library Station, 2335 N. Kansas Expressway Thursday March, 5th 2009 5:00-8:00 PM @ Pipkin Middle School, 1215 N. Boonville Ave SHOOT DATE: Sunday, March 8th ( All Day ) CAST: (All youth ages 9-11 years [...]

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.