Film Commission of Greater Kansas City

MGM Casting Director in KC

marketing — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:31:37 +0000

MGM Casting Director Paul Weber will speak on Sunday, March 21 at the Westport Coffeehouse. The fee for the 10:00 AM event is $50 for adults, $30 for students. The Film Commission of Greater Kansas City is giving away FREE TICKETS to the first three (3) individuals who join the Film Commission at the $50 level. Pay for your membership on this web site and the ticket will be sent via e-mail following confirmation of the purchase. ONLY THREE complimentary tickets available, so act now!

MGM Casting Director Paul Weber

For more information go to www.wrightlairdcasting.com

KC Film Folk Lobby in Jeff City

marketing — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:46:47 +0000

Kansas City producers, directors, actors, and other film supporters gathered for Legislative Day in Jefferson City February 2, 2010. MOMMA (Missiouri Motion Media Association) organized the effort with a great turnout of Industry professionals from all over the state. Lead by MOMMA director Lorah Steiner, individuals and groups met with various legislative leaders at the Capitol building to encourage the support of the state tax credits that attract filmmakers to Missouri communities.

KC FilmFest’s Fred Andrews shows off his proclamation, for his considerable contribution to the film industry in Kansas City.

Photos by Patrick Lamb & Heather Laird

Film 3001 – Supporting Independent Filmakers

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:49:36 +0000

Check out the latest edition of the Film 3001 Newsletter . Film 3001 is a great resource provided by Award winning director and Producer Dennis Fallon. You can visit the main website here.

Winter’s Bone Takes Sundance

marketing — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:52:31 +0000

Production Assistant Training Seminar

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:34:19 +0000

Production Assistant Training Seminar, LLC (PATS) is pleased to announce the 2010 winter seminar schedule for Kansas and Missouri. View the schedule.

Power & Light District

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:06:10 +0000

The Kansas City Power & Light District or Power & Light District is a shopping and entertainment district in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States, developed by the Cordish Company of Baltimore, Maryland and designed by 360 Architecture. The district comprises nine blocks on the south side of the downtown loop. It is located between Baltimore Avenue to the west, Grand Boulevard to the east, 12th Street to the north, and Interstate 670 to the south. The $850 million “mixed-use” district is one of the largest development projects in the Midwestern United States. The Power & Light District is one of only a few places in the United States where possession and consumption of open containers of alcoholic beverages are allowed on the street, although they remain prohibited on the street throughout the rest of Kansas City.

Show-Me Showbiz Bulletin

marketing — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:04:34 +0000

The Missouri-made film Winter’s Bone will be competing at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and Up in the Air leads the Golden Globes with six nominations. All this and more in this month’s Show Me Showbiz Bulletin Jan 2010

THE BLUECAT SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP COMES BACK TO KANSAS CITY

Education Committee — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:10 +0000

First Ten Pages Workshop (limit 12 writers)
        Sunday, December 13th, 9:00am – 6:00pm
        Screenland Theatre at the Crossroads
        1656 Washington
        Kansas City, Mo. 64108
        Fee $75

        To register, please visit
        http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/

        KU Alum Gordy Hoffman, the Sundance award-winning writer/director (LOVE LIZA, A COAT OF SNOW) and founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, comes back to Kansas City to lead a screenwriting workshop on Sunday, December 13th from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

        Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA, Gordy is a former Adjunct Professor of screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, as well as having led workshops across the US and Canada, London and Poland. To read Gordy’s articles on screenwriting, visit http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/news/advice.php

        Gordy Hoffman is now attached to direct a movie in 2010 in UK and France, written by Melissa Brandt.

        THE FIRST TEN PAGES WORKSHOP
        This workshop will consist of 12 writers each submitting ten pages of a work in progress in advance. We will go over each work individually, reading the pages aloud, while discussing the specific, unique challenges each writer is facing on the page.

        This discussion will include the technical aspects of description and dialogue, the depth and reality of the characters, and how the ten pages reflect where the entire story goes.

        The intimate, focused interaction with fellow writers in the workshop will provide all with a greater understanding of the work that lies ahead on their screenplay, and more importantly, a detailed sense of how they might develop as writers themselves.

        REGISTER: http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/

        Any questions? Email Bluecatworkshop@bluecatscreenplay.com

Cliffhanger Falls

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:53:52 +0000

River Market

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:14:31 +0000

River Market stretches north of the downtown Interstate 70 loop to the Missouri River, and is bordered by the Broadway Bridge on the west and the Heart of America Bridge on the east. The area encompasses the location in which Kansas City was first founded. The market name comes from its large open air farmers’ market, the southern section of which was the public square in the mid 1800s.

It derives its “Westport Landing” name because it was the dock on the Missouri River for the exchange of goods going to the community of Westport three miles to the south on higher ground that was operated by John Calvin McCoy. McCoy was to lead a group of settlers to created the “Town of Kansas” in the neighborhood in 1850 which in turn became the “City of Kansas” in 1853.

The Quay name was applied to the neighborhood in the 1970s by developer Marion A. Trozzolo to capitalize on the neighborhood’s early French connections as a fur trading post operated by François Chouteau of the powerful Chouteau clan starting in 1821. Trozzolo’s vision was to make this neighborhood a destination for restaurants and bohemian shops. A mob war developed and three establishments burned or were blown up and several mobsters were killed. The war was part of an overall mob war that ultimately resulted in the mob being pushed out of influence of the Las Vegas casinos that was highlighted in the movie Casino.