The latest update for the October 28th CinemaKC Showcase

Join the UMKC Film & Media Arts department for a showcase of the outstanding work being produced at UMKC and the innovative and resourceful students producing it.  Special guests include faculty members, Caitlin Horsmon, Kevin Mullin, Tom Poe, Carol Koehler, Joan Grossman.

Informal mixer begins at 6:30 and screening at 7:30 at Screenland Crown Center.

The Centron Corporation in Lawrence, Kansas, produced hundreds of educational films, but its true claim to fame couldn’t be further from “Why Study Industrial Arts?”  What made Centron beloved by generations of film geeks involved a pasty ghoul, an abandoned amusement park, and a director who wanted to try something new.

Herk Harvey had been making short films for Centron for a decade when he enlisted some of his co-workers in an ambitious project – a feature horror film… cont under the History & Legacy tab

The latest tasty tidbit of film history from Loey Lockerby, Official Historian of CinemaKC

CinemaKC Showcases University of Missouri Kansas City Student Filmmakers

KANSAS CITY, MO – CinemaKC salutes the University of Missouri-Kansas City Film Department on Thursday, October 28.

The evening features a variety of student media work – animation, documentary, fiction and promotional from every level of experience.  Talk with faculty from the department, as well as current students and recent graduates, to find out more about what’s happening in Film & Media Arts at UMKC and the special opportunities that our position in the urban core provides our students and others in the metro area.

Work made as a part of our extensive internship program will be featured as will opportunities for local media producers to work with and mentor students.

The screening at the Screenland Crown Center begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be preceded by an informal mixer at 6:30 p.m.

The films will conclude with a Q&A from the several filmmakers who will be in attendance.

A donation of $10.00 for general public and $5 for students and IFC members with ID is suggested.  All UMKC students are free with student ID.

“Our students coming out of some our local institutes teaching film and video craft are the future of the industry in this city,” says Shipp.  “We want to help set up a structure in which our emerging filmmakers are encouraged to stay in this area, and to that end we’re providing them a showcase where their hard work can be seen and appreciated.”
As well as the periodic showcases at Screenland Crown Center, CinemaKC encourages alliances between area filmmakers at its website, www.cinemakc.org. The organization is heavily reliant on social networking to connect the various film and industry associations by hosting space on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn.

CinemaKC is an initiative of the Film Society of Greater Kansas City, connecting with movie lovers since 1991.

For more information contact John Shipp at 816-718-4337 or john@filmrow.com.

Well, Warner Brothers just recently announced that the upcoming “Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1″ coming on November 19 will NOT be in
3-D, as originally announced.  Personally, I’ve loved all of the movies in
the series so far, and I think that 3-D in this instance is just not
necessary to keep HP as exciting and thrilling as ever.  Plus, no doubt Part
1 will be re-released in the finished 3-D version prior to the finale next
July.  I can wait. And it’s inevitable, given the technological advances
sure to happen in the future, that we’ll be treated to seeing each and every
HP, eventually, converted to 3-D for both the big and little screens.

The Film Peddler

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One of my favorite blogs is Seth’s Blog.  Today he spoke directly to us.  Independent Filmmakers

As filmmakers we are change agents.  Armed with great stories and cameras we have the opportunity to show the endless possibilities that exist to make this world a better place.

Sometimes we expose the problems.

Other times we feature individuals and/or groups that are working to solve the problems.

We help people see the world, themselves and their place in it in new ways.  It’s part of our contribution to making this world a better place.

Now, how can we get more people to see our work?

Let me know your thoughts,

Vicky

Check out Seth’s Blog.  Do you need a permit?

Where, precisely, do you go in order to get permission to make a dent in the universe?

The accepted state is to be a cog. The preferred career is to follow the well-worn path, to read the instructions, to do (for more, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/10/do-you-need-a-permit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/sethsmainblog+(Seth’s+Blog)