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September 13, 2023

Following the 2019 Musical, the Nelly Don Story Returns as a Film

Terence O’Malley’s “Nelly Don: the Musical Movie” hits several local screens this fall.
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September 6, 2023

Kansas City Underground Film Festival presents José Luis Solís Olivares’ “Pool of Nobodies” 

Award-winning film addresses the “violence and rejection” of migrants.
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September 6, 2023

Compelling, Moving & the Perverse: Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Year 4

The Kansas City Underground Film Festival opens this weekend, Sept. 7-9, and continues Sept. 13- 16 at Charlotte Street.
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September 21, 2022

‘West Bottoms’: ‘We have a good little movie’

KC filmmaker Greg Sheffer makes the most of the evocative local setting in his first original short film, now on the international film festival circuit.
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September 13, 2022

A Robust Spectrum: Kansas City Underground Film Festival Starts Sept. 14

“Film is an integrating art and everything that happens in your life, or the stimuli you receive, influences your films,” says Arturo Dueñas Herrero, whose Pessoas, a bittersweet travelogue, plays at the Kansas City Underground Film Festival.
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July 19, 2022

Tosin Morohunfola: Telling Our Stories

As he embarks on the most ambitious project of his career, L.A.-based actor and filmmaker Tosin Morohunfola remains true to his Kansas City roots.
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July 11, 2022

A Microcosm of the United States in an Era of Dynamic but Uncertain Change

Award-winning documentary by KU professor Bob Hurst chronicles a white supremacist plot in Garden City, Kansas.
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June 29, 2022

Julius Karash on Business and the Arts: ‘Bel Air’ TV Show Created by Native Kansas Citian Opens New Vistas for Kansas City Artists

The creatives behind the remake of a ’90s sitcom have proven once again that Kansas City artists can play with coastal counterparts on the same field.
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June 28, 2022

Editor’s Letter, July/August 2022

Kansas City’s creative energy never flags. Currently the field of documentary filmmaking has moved front and center, with new works by local producers racking up awards and screenings, thanks in part to the support of local institutions.
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