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2F THE WICHITA EAGLE ■ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014
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Volunteers keep
the Grass tall
The Tallgrass Staff and Board of
Directors extend a very-special
thank you to the volunteers who
make the Tallgrass Film Festival
possible. These people work
tirelessly year-round and we
couldn’t do it without them. Look
for our “Deputies” in their bright
orange shirts, and know how
important they are to the success
of Tallgrass.
The Staff & Board also send an
“extra-special thank you, happy
birthday, farewell & we’ll miss you"
to our Volunteer Director Gay
Quisenberry who will be retiring
after this year’s festival. Don’t be a
stranger!
Volunteers, don’t forget to visit
the Clear Channel Outdoor Volunteer Lounge throughout the festival for sustenance and entertainment. Thank you to all of the local
businesses who support our
Tallgrass volunteers.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 ■ THE WICHITA EAGLE 3F
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CREDITS
My Eye on Photography
Missing: Arietta Austin, Anne Bowman, Shan Jabara, Erin Patten,
Ashley Randall
The Stubbornly
Independent Trail
I
t’s an undeniable fact, independent filmmakers are cinematic trailblazers. These
brave men and women are
daring, bold and unafraid to
forge into the unknown, to do
everything it takes to tell their
stories, and to leave in their
wakes fascinating tales peppered
with colorful characters that
conquer our audiences year after
year.
Like the pioneers who banded
together to discover the Wild
West, independent cinema is a
collaborative process - from the
talented group of passionate
people who pour their sweatequity into creating the films, to
the crowd-funding movie-lovers
who help with financing and
finally to the appreciative audiences, who come out year after
year to applaud the final masterpiece.
Tallgrass Film Association
relies on the same collaborative
approach to create exceptional
shared experiences around the
international medium of film.
Cinema remains such an accessible art form and by combining
this medium with other artistic
expressions, we’ve had the opportunity to demonstrate how
when coupled together, great art
transcends mere entertainment,
to make us more engaged and
informed citizens of the world.
Cinema began as a collective
experience, but the advent of
technology has turned it into an
often-solitary activity. Communi-
ty-driven film festivals like Tallgrass are tasked with creating
unique and engaging cinematic
adventures for our audiences
that extend far beyond on-demand, streaming and the multiplex.
Some of this year’s partnerships included wonderful events
with the Wichita Symphony
Orchestra (FOLLOWING THE
NINTH), MTWichita (A SOUTH
PACIFIC celebration), Watermark Books (a screening of ERNEST & CELESTINE amongst the
books), Wichita Art Museum
(BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID), Project Nano Short
Filmmaking Lab with alumni
filmmaker Morgan Nichols, the
third annual Down to the Wire:
24 Hour Film Race with CreativeRush, a progressive screening of the movie WICHITA
(1955) and of course, Dudegrass
(THE BIG LEBOWSKI) at Northrock Lanes (to many, bowling is
an art.)
Tallgrass is committed to preserving the communal elements
of movie-going, whether our
audiences are watching films in
a theater, alfresco, a bookstore,
or a bowling alley. We invite you
to enjoy the 12th annual Tallgrass Film Festival together.
See you at the cinema,
Lela Meadow-Conner (Executive Director), Paul Witte
(Board President), the Staff and
Board of TFA
STAFF
Lela Meadow-Conner,
Executive Director
Gretchen Mitchell,
Co-Director of
Programming
Nick Pope, Co-Director
of Programming
Shan Jabara, Director
of Acquisitions
Tom Mittlestadt,
Event Designer
Thane Chastain,
Technical Director
Arietta Austin,
Hospitality Director
Francine Fairweather,
Box Office Director
Gay Quisenberry,
Volunteer Director
Brian Gray, Advancement Manager
Erin Patten,
Production Manager
Anne Bowman, Food &
Beverage Director
Mary Ann Hollander,
Event Coordinator
Danielle Werner, VIP
Lounge Concierge
Carole Jacobs, VIP
Logistics Manager
Amber Brown,
Production Assistant
Ashley Randall, Box
Office Coordinator
Joshua Ellis, Print Traffic
Coordinator
Hulda Bocchino,
Programming
Assistant
B.J. Love, Production
Design Team
Richard Bowman,
Production Design
Team
Blair Birdsong,
Hospitality Assistant
Ian Stewart,
Graphic Design
SPECIAL THANKS
Agile Ticketing Team
Arleigh Aldrich
Arctic Ice
Anne’s Minions
Sarah Bagby
Teddy Barlow
Eva Bergman-Larsson
Larry Bennetta
Kylie Brown
Joe Buell
Wayne Bryan
Barney Byard
Kerry Candaele
Angela Cassette
Cinespecialists
Christopher Clark
Photography
Brad and Edie Conner
Arvin Cruz
Patty Lane,
Graphics Associate
Mike Briley,
Staff Photographer
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
President: Paul Witte
Vice President:
Trudy Swint
Secretary:
Susan Bowers
Treasurer: Cindy Hand
Bonnie Bing
Emily Bonavia
Nick Bonavia
Steve Butcher
Lynda Carrier-Metz
Wade Davis
Jeff Deitchler
Kyle Filiatreault
Stephanie Galichia
Ryan Gates
Ruthie Gillespie
Floyd Gruver
Dick Honeyman
Boyd Howard
Nicole Howerton
Pam Irish
(Past President)
April Johnson
Ann Keefer
Jim Siebert
Kathy Siebert
Marcie Zwygart
PROGRAMMERS
Jeremy Bennett
Richard Davies
Jason Dilts
Tyler Emerson
Shannon Fitts
Vaughn Fry
Charity Hicks
John Jones
Art Kenyon
Sheila Mitchell
Teri Mott
Fletcher Powell
Tina Walterscheid
Debbie Deuser
Peter Exline
Eric Fisher Academy
Armin Gerhard
ICT Roller Girls
Wade Hampton
Marla Hayden
Hatman Jack's
Carol Hughes
Greg Hunt
Jacobs Lawn Care
Leif Jonker
Jack Kellogg
Paul Klusman
Laughing Feet
Performers
Rebecca Maholland
Jamil Malone,
Twitter Master
Patricia McDonnell
Tim McGill
Deyne Meadow
PRE-SCREENERS
Paulina Alcocer
Torin Andersen
Kathy Anderson
Patti Coleman
Leslie Foster
Brenda Knight
Matt Krehbiel
Heather Lassmann
Jason Ohman
Andre Seward
Erick Schlick
Marcia Scurfield
Del Torkelson
EMERGING
PROGRAMMER
APPRENTICES
Mariah Hall
(Andover Central)
Meg Jack (Wichita East)
Jackson Laurie
(Wichita East)
Satchell Owens
(Wichita East)
Blaise Webster (The
Independent School)
Patti Siering
Alice Ward
Bruce Ward
DECOR COMMITTEE
Anne Bowman
Taylor Garon
Mary Ann Hollander
Carole Jacobs
Jim and Stacy Mayou
Builder Bob McDowell
Tanya Merritt
Erin Patton
Will Pyles
Wyatt Sheeder
PROJECTIONISTS
Russ Autry
Jim Davis
Amy Delamaide
Vaughn Fry
Julie Linneman
Tommy Milligan
Clem Moreno
Fletcher Powell
Jake Treat
Chris Wren
VENUE MANAGERS
Jack Silvers (Orpheum)
Larry Bennett (Garvey)
Hugo Phan
(Scottish Rite)
Janet Davis
Marti Secondine
PROGRAM GUIDE
Rod Pocowatchit/
The Wichita Eagle
ASSISTANT VENUE
MANAGERS
Bryan Clark (Orpheum)
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TALLGRASS PRESS
CORPS
Marie Carroll
Dwight Corrin
Arnold Graef
Steven Green
Kelsy Gossett
Toni Means
Neil Marcus
Win Oo
John Pic
Susan Richardson
Novelene Ross
Mittlestadt Props
and Design
Eric Mezdow-Moore
Brian Moore/House of
Schwan Graphics &
Design Dept.
Music Theatre Wichita
Morgan Nichols
Pepsico
Rod Pocowatchit
Wynn Ponder
Lonny Quattlebaum
Don Reinhold
Old Cowtown Museum
Ray’s Party Rental
Lesley Rogers
Bo Savage
Andre Seward
SIFF
Ashton Smith
Stephen C. Smith
The Stong Family
COVER ART
& 2014 FESTIVAL
ARTWORK
Howerton + White
Festival Founder
Timothy O. Gruver
Vagabond Café
Watermark Books
Wichita Art Museum
Wichita Bar Association
Wichita Symphony
Orchestra
James Woods
WSU Costume Shop
WSU Opera Dept.
X-clusive Events
And a special thanks
to all of the
businesses, galleries
and organizations who
allow TFA to hand out
information, posters
and fliers throughout
the year.
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GALA SCREENING EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT GALA - SPONSORED BY RICK & MONICA NUTT
RETURN OF THE REELS GALA - SPONSORED BY JACK DANIELS
Yojimbo (Yôjinbô)
Life Itself
Directed by Steve James
Documentary, 2014, 120m, USA
Special Guest: Producer Zak Piper
scheduled to attend
This recounts the surprising and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic/social commentator Roger Ebert — a
story that is by turns personal, wistful,
funny, painful, and transcendent. The
film explores the impact and legacy of
Ebert’s life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism and his nearly quarter-century run with Gene Siskel on their
review show, to becoming one of the
country's most influential cultural voices,
and finally to Ebert’s inspiring battles
with cancer and the resulting physical
disability — how he literally and symbolically put a new face on the disease and
continued to be a cultural force despite
it.
Playing with: The Gunfighter, d. Eric
Kissack (USA, 2014, 9m)
$25, includes screening and after-party
at Union Station with open bar, eats & live
music from The Cherokee Maidens
Wed. Oct. 15, 7:00 p.m.
at the Orpheum
STUBBORNLY INDEPENDENT GALA - SPONSORED BY VIMEO
Directed by Akiro Kurosawa
Starring Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno,
Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu
Yamada, Takashi Shimura
Feature, 1961, 110m, Japan
Special Guest: Film Historian and
Kurosawa Scholar Stephen Prince
scheduled to attend. Q&A moderated
by Flavorwire’s Jason Bailey.
Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a
rural town in 19th century Japan. After
learning from the innkeeper that the
town is divided between two gangsters,
he plays one side off against the other.
One of famed Japanese director Akira
Kurosawa's masterpiece films. Screening
on 35mm film. (Japanese with English
subtitles)
Playing with: Hide & Seek, d. Kayoko
Asakura (Japan, 2013, 11m)
$25, includes both screenings and after
party at Old Cowtown with open bar, eats
from Artisan Catering and Noodles &
Company, & live music from The Phantom
Plainsmen
Fri. Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
at the Orpheum
A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno
di dollari)
Directed by Sergio Leone
Starring Clint Eastwood, Glan Maria
Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, 1964, 99m, Italy/Spain/West Germany
An anonymous, deadly man rides into
a town torn by war between two factions. He schemes to play the two sides
off each other, getting rich in the bargain. This is the first film in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy.”
Sponsored by Dodge City CVB & Boothill
Casino
Fri. Oct. 17, 11:59 p.m. at Orpheum
$10 GA tickets also available
CLOSING NIGHT GALA - SPONSORED BY STEVE ANDERSON
Before I Disappear
The Living
back as her mother continuously expresses her disapproval. Meanwhile, Molly’s
Directed by Jack Bryan
brother gets in way over his head as he
Starring Fran Krans, Jocelin Donahue,
tries to take revenge on Teddy.
Kenny Wormaid, Chris Mulkey, Joelle
Playing with: Copy Cat, d. Shane KonCarter, 2014, 89m, USA
icki (USA/Kansas, 2014, 6m, 2014 Down
Special Guests: Director Jack Bryan to the Wire Film Race winner)
and producers John Snyder and Laura
$25, includes screening and after party
DuBois scheduled to attend.
at Emprise Bank Parking Garage with
After an alcohol-induced blacked-out
open bar, eats from Rain Cafe & Lounge &
night of drinking, Teddy discovers he has live entertainment from DJ Carbon
severely beaten his wife, Molly. As he
Sat. Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. at Scottish
attempts to redeem himself, she must
Rite
decide whether or not she will take him
Directed by Shawn Christensen
Starring Shawn Christensen, Fatima
Ptacek, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley, Ron
Perlman, Richard Schiff, 2013, 93m, USA
Special Guest: Editor Andrew Napier Scheduled to Attend
Based on the 2013 Academy Awardwinning short “Curfew.” At the lowest
point of his life, Richie gets a call from
his estranged sister asking him to look
after his 11-year old niece, Sophia, for a
few hours. Richie cancels his ominous
plans, and picks Sophia up from school.
He does his best to juggle her intense
schedule with his equally intense (but
much messier) commitments. It seems
more like she’s the one looking after him
than the other way around. As he tries
hard to be the grownup, he realizes she
just might be the spark he needs to
bring him back from the edge.
Playing with: Grandma’s Not A Toaster, d. Andrew Napier (USA, 2013, 10m)
at Block1 Parking Garage with open bar,
eats from Bob & Luigi’s and live entertainment from DJs Ghouled and Deathblack
Flowers.
Sun. Oct. 19, 7:00 p.m.
at the Orpheum
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Thursday, Oct. 16 – Saturday, Oct.
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A is For Alex (SI Nominee)
Child of God
The David Dance
Five Star (SI Nominee)
Directed by Alex Orr
Starring Alex Orr, Katie Rowlett, Daniel
L. Kelly, 2014, 74m, USA
Director/Writer/Actor Alex Orr
scheduled to attend
Alex is an inventor about to face his
greatest challenge: Fatherhood. Striken
by anxiety and struggling to keep his
pregnant wife happy, Alex works to save
the world and become a worthy father
and husband. Shot throughout the 9
months before their child was born, husband and wife team Katie and Alex Orr
turn the cameras on themselves and end
up with a modern look at becoming a
parent and mixing real life with fiction.
Sat. Oct. 18, 11:15 a.m. at Scottish
Rite
Directed by James Franco
Starring Scott Haze, James Franco, Jim
Parrack, Tim Blake Nelson, 2013, 104m,
USA
Set in mountainous Sevier County,
Tenn., in the 1960s, this tells the story of
Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent
man whom the narrator describes as “a
child of God much like yourself, perhaps.”
Ballard’s life is a disastrous attempt to
exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and a home and
with few other ties, Ballard descends
literally and figuratively to the level of a
cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime
and degradation. Based on Cormac
McCarthy's book of the same name.
Playing with: Bloodhounds, d. Alan
Scott Neal (USA, 2014, 15m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 9:45 p.m. at Scottish Rite
Directed by Aprill Winney
Starring Don Scime, Guy Adkins, Antoinette LaVecchia, Jordan Baker, 2014,
108m, USA
Producer/Writer/Cast Don Scime
scheduled to attend.
David is soft spoken, shy and unsure of
himself. However, as host of the local
radio show “Gay Talk” in Buffalo, New
York, he’s poised and witty. His sister,
Kate, is a thrice divorced banker. Though
successful, the siblings suffer from a vast
sense of inadequacy.
Sponsored by Liberty Press
Spotlight on Women Directors sponsored
by Lucinda's
Sat. Oct. 18, noon at Bank of America
Sun. Oct. 19, 4:00 p.m. at the Garvey
Mediterranean
Directed by Keith Miller
Starring James ‘Primo’ Grant, John Diaz,
Wanda Nobles Colon, Jasmine Burgos,
2014, 83m, USA
Actor John Diaz scheduled to attend.
After John’s absent father is struck by a
stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself
to verse the young boy in the code of the
streets — one founded on respect and
upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods
since the age of 12 — both in the film and
in reality — the streets of Brooklyn are all
Primo has ever known. While John questions whether or not to enter into this life,
Primo must decide whether to leave it all
behind as he vows to become a better
husband and father.
Sun. Oct. 19, 3:45 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Gone Doggy Gone
Half Brother (SI Nominee)
Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter
The Ladies of the House
Directed by Kasi Brown and Brandon
Walter
Starring Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter,
Kate Connor, 2014, 89m, USA
Co-Director/Actor Kasi Brown
This comedy is about a couple working
the grind in L.A. who have little time for
each other, and what free time they have
they spend doting on their dog ... until it
gets kidnapped.
Playing with: The Struggle of Libations, d. Erin Mullally (Ireland, 2014, 8m)
Thursday Night Spotlight Sponsored by
Wichita State University, $8 for WSU Community with valid ID
by Lucinda’s
Thur. Oct. 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Orpheum
Directed by Anthony Grippa
Starring Elizabeth Masucci, Casey Biggs,
Christina Haag, Jenny Dare Paulin, Stephen Plunkett, 2014, 75m, USA
Director Anthony Grippa scheduled
to attend.
When his longtime girlfriend breaks up
with him, 30 year-old Michael suddenly
finds himself homeless. With nowhere
else to go, he spends the weekend at his
father and stepmother’s house, only to
find that they’re embroiled in a bitter
divorce. As he gets caught in the middle
of their angry disputes, Michael struggles
to come to terms with his place in his
dysfunctional family.
Sat. Oct. 18, 2:30 p.m. at the
Orpheum
Directed by David Zellner
Starring Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, 2014, 105m, USA
A lonely Japanese woman becomes
convinced that a satchel of money buried
and lost in a fictional film, is in fact, real.
With a crudely drawn treasure map and
limited preparation, she escapes her
structured life in Tokyo and embarks on a
foolhardy quest across the frozen tundra
of Minnesota in search of her mythical
fortune.
Fri. Oct. 17, noon at Scottish Rite - $5
Matinee
Rite
Directed by John Stuart Wildman
Starring Farah White, Melodie Sisk,
Brina Palencia, Belladonna, Gabriel Horn,
2014, 93m, USA
Director John Wildman scheduled to
attend.
This follows the events surrounding a
birthday outing with two brothers and a
friend that turns into a horrific fight for
survival after they become trapped in a
house with a family of malevolent women
who enjoy a pin-up lifestyle and a special
diet.
Thur. Oct. 16, 9:45 p.m. at the
Orpheum
Orpheum
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U.S. NARRATIVE FEATURES IN COMPETITION, CONT.
Love Land
Man From Reno (SI Nominee)
Pretty Rosebud (SI Nominee)
Sun Belt Express
Directed by Joshua Tate
Starring Monica Gaseor, Michael Iovine,
Johnny Walter, Juli Erickson, 2014, 101m,
USA
Director Joshua Tate scheduled to
attend.
24-year-old Ivy sterilizes needles at a
tattoo parlor in a small East Texas town.
She has an intellectual disability, but she
hides her label with grace. What she
doesn’t hide is the crush she has on Oscar,
a 16-year-old apprentice tattoo artist who
works at the same parlor. When Ivy’s
sister wants to place her in an institution,
Ivy must choose how far she will go in
order to reunite with her dream man.
Sun. Oct. 19, 4:00 p.m. at Bank of
America
Directed by David Boyle
Starring Ayako Fujitani, Pepe Serna,
Kazuki Kitamura, 2014, 111m, USA
In a small town, Sheriff Paul Del Moral
is driving home through the fog when he
accidentally strikes a lone Japanese man.
At the same time, Japanese mystery author Aki Akahori takes a trip to San Francisco in order to escape the press tour for
her latest book. Feeling lonely, she begins
a romantic affair with a mysterious Japanese traveler. (English and Japanese with
English subtitles)
Rite
Directed by Oscar Torre
Starring Chuti Tiu, Kipp Shiotani, Dana
Lee, Bel Hernandez, 2014, 93m, USA
Writer/actor Chuti Tiu scheduled to
attend.
Everyone thinks Cissy has the perfect
life – except Cissy. Striving to be the
“good girl,” at home and at work has left
her on the verge of a breakdown. A childless marriage to a handsome architect has
gone stale, while questions about babies
pepper every well-meaning conversation
with family and friends. The cultural
abyss dividing Cissy and her traditional
Asian parents drives her to a desperate
act of survival, defying societal taboos.
Sun. Oct. 19, 1:30 p.m. at Scottish
Rite
Directed by Evan Buxbaum
Starring Stephen Lang, Rachael Harris,
Tate Donovan, 2014, 91m, USA
Co-writer/Actor/Producer Chance
Mullen scheduled to attend (KS Filmmaker)
Ethics professor Allen King has just
been fired for plagiarizing a student’s
work. Living in sunny Arizona, he now
shuttles immigrants across the Mexican
border in the trunk of his beat-up Volvo
for cash. But it’s only a matter of time
before Allen’s life devolves into chaos as
his pregnant Mexican girlfriend and his
teenage daughter land in his car during
an illegal run across the border.
Rite
WORLD NARRATIVE FEATURES IN COMPETITION
The Dark Valley (Das finstere Tal)
Directed by Andreas Prochaska,
Starring Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti,
2014, 114m, Austria/Germany
It is the late 19th Century, a stranger
arrives in a remote community of alpine
farmers. But this reticent observer, who
finds accommodation with the widow
Gader and young Luzi, finds himself confronted with the deep distrust of a closeknit community. When the youngest son
of a wealthy farmer has a fatal accident,
the old order in the valley begins to unravel. (German with English subtitles)
Casino
Fri. Oct. 17, 3:45 p.m. at the Orpheum
- $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30 a.m. at the Orpheum
Longwave (Les grandes ondes à
l'ouest)
Directed by Lionel Baler
Starring Valéie Donaelli, Michel Vuillermoz, Patrick Lapp, Francisco Belard, 2013,
85m, Switzerland/France/Portugal
April 1974, Switzerland. The Federal
Councellor, annoyed by the anti-establishment tone of the French-speaking
Swiss radio channel, imposes “safer”
subjects on Philippe de Roulet, the program director. To please him, de Roulet
sends a team to Portugal to report on the
impact of Swiss aid to the country.
(French with English subtitles)
Playing with: Democracy (Democracia), d. Borja Cobeaga (Spain, 2013, 10m)
Sat. Oct. 18, 7:15 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Metro Manila
Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours)
Directed by Sean Ellis
Starring Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla,
Althea Vega, 2013, 115m, UK/Philippines
Seeking a brighter future in Manila,
Oscar Ramirez and his family flee their
impoverished life in the rice fields of the
Philippines. But the sweltering capital’s
intensity quickly overwhelms them, and
they fall prey to hardened locals. Oscar
catches a lucky break when he’s offered
steady work for an armored truck company. Soon, though, the reality of his work’s
mortality rate force Oscar to confront the
perils he faces in his new job and life.
(Tagalog with English subtitles)
Thur. Oct. 16, 10:30 a.m. at Scottish
Rite - $5 Matinee
Fri. Oct. 17, 4:45 p.m. at WSU Shift
Space - $5 Matinee
Directed by Michel Gondry
Starring Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou,
Gad Elmaleh, 2013, 94m, France/Belgium
Set in Paris, wealthy bachelor Colin
spends his time developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano). When
Colin learns that his best friend has a new
American girlfriend, our hero attends a
friend’s party in hopes of falling in love
himself. He soon meets Chloe and plunges headfirst into a romance. Their whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual
illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to
grow in her lungs. So Colin sets out to
save her. (French with English subtitles)
Fri. Oct. 17, 5:00 p.m. at the Garvey
Mediterranean
Sun. Oct. 19, 2:00 p.m. at the Wichita
Art Museum
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U.S. DOCUMENTARIES
The Salvation
Traitors
Wetlands
Art and Craft
Directed by Kristian Levring
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green,
2014, 89m, Denmark/UK/South Africa
In 1870s America, a peaceful DanishAmerican settler kills his family’s murderer, which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow
townspeople then betray him, forcing him
to hunt down the outlaws alone. This
UK/Danish/South African production is a
faithful homage to the American Western.
(English and Danish with English subtitles)
Casino
Fri. Oct. 17, 11:00 a.m. at the
Orpheum - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct. 19, 11:30 a.m. at Bank of
America
Directed by Sean Gullette
Starring Chaimae Ben Acha, Soufia
Issami, 83m, Morocco
Malika is the leader of the all-female
punk rock band Traitors, with a strong
vision of the world, her hometown of
Tangier, and her place in it. When she
needs money to save her family from
eviction, and to realize her dreams for the
band, Malika agrees to a fast cash dangerous proposition. (Arabic and French with
English subtitles)
Playing with: Claire, d. Cate Smierciak
(Germany, 2014, 14m)
Sponsored by Subaru of Wichita
Directed by David Wnendt
Starring Carla Juri, Christoph Letowski,
Marlen Kruse, 2013, 105m, Germany
The eccentric 18 year-old Helen narrates her life, including tales about her
preferred sexual practices that involve
vegetables, her attitude towards hygiene,
drugs, her best friend Corinna and her
challenging childhood. The story takes
place in a hospital where she is treated
because of an anal fissure. (German with
English subtitles)
Playing with: Meet My Rapist, d. Jessie Kahnweiler (USA, 2013, 7m)
Sat. Oct. 18, 11:59 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Directed by Sam Cullman, Jennifer
Grausman, Mark Becker, 2014, 89m, USA
Mark Landis has been called one of the
most prolific art forgers in US history. His
impressive body of work covers a wide
range of painting styles. When his decades-long ruse is finally exposed, Landis
must confront the legacy of his 30-year
con.
Playing with: Tinker, d. Lou Ward (USA,
2014, 5m)
by Lucinda's
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:00 a.m. at Wichita
Center for the Arts - Free to the general public
Sun. Oct 19, noon at the Wichita Art
Musem
U.S. DOCUMENTARY FEATURES IN COMPETITION, CONT.
Brave New Wild
Fight Church
The Great Invisible
Growing Cities
Directed by Oakley Anderson-Moore,
2014, 76m, USA
Director Oakley Anderson-Moore
scheduled to attend
Through a mishmash of campfire stories with climbing pioneers, archival
footage and cartoons, this film explores
an answer to “Why climb when there's
nothing to gain — and everything to lose?”
Sponsored by PRo Kansas & Great Plains
Nature Center
Sponsored on Women Directors sponsored by Lucinda’s
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:15 a.m. at WSU Shiftspace - $5 matinee GA; This film is also
a Free Friday Film Selection and admission is complimentary for students/teachers/seniors 65+ with valid ID
Directed by Daniel Junge and Bryan
Storkel, 2014, 84m, USA
Co-Director Bryan Storkel scheduled to attend.
This examines the confluence of Christianity and mixed martial arts, including
ministries that train fighters. The film
follows several pastors and popular fighters in their quest to reconcile their faith
with a sport that many consider violent
and barbaric. Faith is tried and questions
are raised. Can you really love your
neighbor as yourself and then punch him
in the face?
Thur. Oct. 16, 3:45 p.m. at Scottish
Rite - $5 Matinee
Directed by Margaret Brown, 2014, 92m,
USA
Peabody Award-winning documentarian Margaret Brown travels to small
towns and major cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of
the Deepwater Horizon explosion on the
people of the region. Eyewitnesses reconstruct the oil spill, creating a vivid picture
of the accident and its consequences.
Nature Center
by Lucinda's
Thur. Oct. 16, 5:00 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Fri. Oct. 17, 9:45 a.m. at the Garvey
Forum - $5 Matinee
Directed by Dan Susman and Andrew
Monbouquette, 2013, 97m, USA
Co-Producer Brent Lubbert Scheduled to Attend.
Filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew
Monbouquette take a road trip and meet
the men and women who are challenging
the way this country grows and distributes its food, one vacant city lot, rooftop
garden and backyard chicken coop at a
time. Join them as they discover that
good food isn't the only crop these urban
visionaries are harvesting.
Nature Center
Sat. Oct. 18, 1:15 p.m. at the Wichita
Art Museum
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Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty
Keep On Keepin’ On
The Kill Team
The Life and Mind of Mark
DeFriest
Directed by Dan Krauss, 2013, 79m, USA
Directed by Greg Olliver, 2014, 95m,
USA
A look at the life and career of blues
legend Johnny Winter, featuring Edgar
Winter, James Cotton, Billy Gibbons,
Warren Haynes, Luther Nallie, Tommy
Shannon, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks
and more.
Playing with: Lomax, d. Jesse Kreitzer
(USA, 2013, 12m)
Sponsored by Subaru of Wichita with
additional support from Wichita Blues
Society
Rite - $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 4:45 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Directed by Al Hicks, 2014, 84m, USA
Shot over the course of five years by
first time filmmaker Al Hicks, this film
depicts the remarkable story of
93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A
living monument to the Golden Era of
Jazz, Terry is among the few performers
ever to have played in both Count Basie
and Duke Ellington’s bands. In the 1960s,
he broke the color barrier as the first
African-American staff musician at NBC
on “The Tonight Show.” The film highlights his friendship with the gifted Justin
Kauflin, a blind, 23-year-old piano prodigy who suffers from debilitating stage
fright. These two friends confront the
toughest challenges of their lives.
Rite
Private Adam Winfield was a
21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when
he attempted to alert the military about
heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield's pleas went unheeded. Left on his own and with threats
to his life, Private Winfield was forced to
make a split-second decision that would
change his life forever.
Playing with: Little Shadow, d. Toby
Fell-Holden (USA, 2013, 18m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:15 p.m. WSU Shiftspace - $5 matinee GA; This film is also
Sun. Oct 19, 9:00 a.m. at Scottish
Rite
Directed by Gabriel London, 2014, 102m,
USA
Producer Charlie Sadoff scheduled
to attend
At 19, Mark DeFriest was sent to prison
for “stealing” tools that were allegedly
willed to him by his father. For 30 years,
and after 13 breakout attempts, Mark sat
in an isolated cell with little light and no
human contact. As his health reached a
critical point, the doctor who incarcerated him re-emerges with a startling admission about his original diagnosis that
could change Mark's life forever.
- $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 12:00 p.m. at the Garvey
Forum
Limited Partnership
Little Hope Was Arson
Mad As Hell
Oil & Water
Directed by Thomas G. Miller, 2014,
74m, USA
Subject Clela Rorex scheduled to
attend.
This is the story of Filipino-American
Richard Adams and Australian Tony Sullivan who filed the first federal lawsuit
seeking equal treatment for a same-sex
marriage in U.S. history.
Playing with: My Guide, d. Barnabas
Toth (Hungary, 2013, 13m)
Forum - $5 matinee GA; This film is
also a Free Friday Film Selection and
admission is complimentary for students/
teachers/seniors 65+ with valid ID
Forum
Directed by Theo Love, 2013, 71m, USA
Director Theo Love scheduled to
attend.
January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible
Belt, 10 churches burn to the ground in
just over a month igniting the largest
criminal investigation in East Texas history. No stone is left unturned and even
Satan himself is considered a suspect in
this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Families
are torn apart and communities of faith
struggle with forgiveness and justice in
this incredible true story.
Forum - $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 2:30 p.m. at Garvey
Forum
Directed by Andrew Napier, 2014, 80m,
USA (U.S. festival premiere)
Director/Producer Andrew Napier
This follows Cenk Uygur’s transformation from unknown talk show host to
internet sensation with his online news
show “The Young Turks.” But when he
lands a prime spot on MSNBC, his uncensored brand of journalism is compromised and he becomes the nexus in the
battle between new and old media.
Playing with: The Missing Scarf, d.
Eoin Duffy (Ireland, 2013, 7m)
Rite
Directed by Alan Robert Davis, 2014,
75m, USA
This follows a Cajun family in the years
following the BP oil spill. Despite coming
close to losing their shrimp-processing
business, they remained in support of the
oil and gas industry, which has been a
part of Cajun culture over its 100-year
history. But as compounding factors production threaten the their livelihood, they
are forced to deal with harsh realities.
Playing with: Isle de Jean Charles, d.
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (USA, 2014, 10m)
Nature Center
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:15 p.m. at Wichita
Center for the Arts - Free to the public
Mediterranean
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The Overnighters
Directed by Jesse Moss, 2014, 90m, USA
This is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of
Williston, N.D. With the town lacking the
infrastructure to house the overflow of
migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial “overnighters” program, allowing
down-and-out workers a place to sleep at
the church. His well-meaning project
gradually runs into resistance with his
community, forcing him to make a decision that leads to profound consequences.
Playing with: Monotony, d. Joanne
Postlewaite (UK, 2013, 3m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:00 a.m. at Scottish
Rite - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct 19, 2:00 p.m. at the Garvey
Forum
Queens & Cowboys: A Straight
Year on the Gay Rodeo
Directed by Matt Livadary, 2014, 92m,
USA
This chronicles a complete season of
the International Gay Rodeo Association
(IGRA). Roping and riding across North
America, the IGRA’s courageous cowboys
and cowgirls brave challenges both in and
out of the arena on their quest to qualify
for the World Finals. Along the way,
they’ll bust every stereotype in the book.
Playing with: Hoover Road, d. Jonathan Pope Evans (USA/Kansas, 2014,
16m)
Mediterranean
Sun. Oct 19, 9:00 a.m. at the Garvey
Mediterranean
U.S. DOCUMENTARIES, CONT.
Self Medicated: A Film About Art
Silenced
Directed by Ethan H. Minsker, 2014,
98m, USA
Director Ethan Minsker scheduled to
attend.
The Antagonist Movement was formed
by a group of unknown artists in 2000 in
bars and clubs of the Lower East Side,
and promoted works by up-and-coming
talent. Over the next 13 years, the movement expanded from its base in New York
to show in cities around the world. This
film documents the history of the movement and the artists involved.
Fri. Oct. 17, 4:15 p.m. at Wichita Center for the Arts - Free to the general
public
Art Museum
Directed by James Spione, 2014, 104m,
USA
Director James Spione scheduled to
attend.
Behind world-changing headlines are
those who risk everything to speak the
truth to power. From Academy Awardnominated and Tallgrass alumni director
James Spione (“Incident in New Baghdad”) we see what it means to challenge
unethical behavior in the corridors of
power and influence, and gain access to
the lives of three of the world’s most
important government whistleblowers
Sat. Oct. 18, 2:30 p.m. at Bank of
America
Rite
WORLD DOCUMENTARY FEATURES IN COMPETITION
Stray Dog
A Life in Dirty Movies
Light Fly, Fly High
The Supreme Price
Directed by Debra Granik, 2014, 98m,
USA
Ron “Stray Dog” Hall lives in Southern
Missouri where he owns and operates an
RV Park. After seven years of living with
four small dogs as his only companions,
he is adjusting to life with his wife, newly
arrived from Mexico. Stray Dog seeks to
strike a balance between his commitment
to his family, neighbors, biker brotherhood, and fellow veterans. As part of the
legacy of fighting in the Vietnam War, he
wrestles with the everlasting puzzle of
conscience, remorse and forgiveness.
by Lucinda's
- $5 Matinee
Directed by Wiktor Ericsson, 2013, 80m,
Sweden
Subject Peggy Steffans Sarno
This is a love story about legendary
sexploitation director Joe Sarno, “The
Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street,” and his
loyal wife and collaborator Peggy — their
place in sex film history, life between
New York and Sweden, and their struggle
to make one last erotic film.
Playing with: Directors on Directing,
d. Damien Patrik (USA, 2013, 5m)
Mediterranean
America
Directed by Beth Hofseth, Susan Ostigaard, 2013, 80m, Norway/India
As a young Indian girl born outside the
caste system, Thulasi is trying to box her
way out of poverty. In many ways, her life
is pre-determined. She is expected to get
married and accept her place at the very
bottom of the ladder. But Thulasi dreams
of a different life. (In Tamil with English
subtitles)
Playing with: Nesma’s Birds (Iraq,
2013, 7m) Iraqi Independent Film Center
by Lucinda's
Mediterranean - $5 matinee GA; This
film is also a Free Friday Film Selection
and admission is complimentary for students/teachers/seniors 65+ with valid ID
Directed by Joanna Lipper, 2014, 75m,
USA/Nigeria
Following the annulment of her father's
victory in Nigeria's Presidential Election
and her mother's assassination by agents
of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola
faces the challenge of transforming a
corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria's most
marginalized population: Women.
Playing with: Not Anymore: A Story
of Revolution, d. Matthew VanDyke
(USA, 2013, 15m)
by Lucinda's
public
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Stubbornly Independent Gala celebrates fest’s roots
F
or the third year, the Tallgrass Film Festival features
the Jake Euker Stubbornly
Independent Gala – as
celebration of independent cinema and an homage to the independent filmmakers who make
film festivals possible. Tallgrass
congratulates all of the nominated films, which will screen
during the festival, and be followed by a Q&A with a filmmaker.
Out of 117 eligible films - US
narrative feature films made for
under $750,000 with no traditional theatrical distribution - six
were selected as Stubbornly
Independent nominees and
judged by the first-ever industry
jury, comprised of Andrea Allen
(Vimeo,) Brian Flanagan (Roadside Attractions) Jenny Jacobi
(Drafthouse Media) and Scott
Mansfield (Monterey Media). All
jurors are scheduled to attend
the festival.
In addition to the gala spotlight, the winning film and filmmakers receive a $2,500 cash
prize from Vimeo, a one-night
theater rental from AMC Theatres, and a one-of-a-kind Tallgrass
Tap Handle Award from VanChase Studios.
The winning film, as selected
by this year’s jury, is THE LIVING, from Director Jack Bryan.
Bryan will attend the festival
along with the film’s producers,
Laura DuBois and John Snyder.
THE LIVING screens at the Stubbornly Independent Gala on
Saturday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 pm at
the Scottish Rite Theatre and is
followed by an after-party at the
Emprise Bank Parking Garage
with open bar, eats and live
music from DJ Carbon. Tickets
are $25.
“In independent film, we sacrifice budgets, and in return, we
are free to serve the story exclusively. Being stubbornly independent means seeing this as an
opportunity and a responsibility.
It means we will shoot films with
whatever tools we can get our
hands on and we will make them
unforgettable.”
— Jack Bryan, Director, THE
LIVING
Jury Statement
We, the members of the Stubbornly Independent Film Jury,
have chosen THE LIVING as the
winner of the 2014 Stubbornly
Independent Award as presented
by the Tallgrass International
Film Festival. While each of the
contenders met the award criteria in different ways, we found
that this film most successfully
represents independent filmmaking at its core: smart,
thought provoking, and well
made despite (or perhaps because of) budgetary constraints.
THE LIVING weaves a thoroughly engrossing story with
beautiful cinematography, solid
direction, and strong perform-
ances that never pander, yet
never fail to engage. The film
conveys a thematic universality
applicable to anyone who has
ever felt trapped within the confines of a fate seemingly set in
motion by one irreversible action, and yet the plot still unfolds
in surprising and unpredictable
ways.
We found THE LIVING a joy to
watch, and it is our pleasure to
“The Living"
select it as our winner.
RICK & MONICA
NUTT
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SPECIAL INTEREST FILM COLLECTIONS
WESTERNS
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The Dark Valley
Drunker than a Skunk (short)
The Gunfighter (short)
The Salvation
A Fistful of Dollars
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
BIG READ
(Fri. Oct. 17, Free Screenings
at the Wichita Public Library –
Central, Media Sponsor: KMUW)
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Satan Met a Lady
HORROR/THRILLER/MIDNIGHT
The Ladies of the House (with
Director John Wildman)
NOTABLE FILM
PROGRAMS
Child of God
Wetlands
KANSAS CONNECTIONS
The Bona Fide (shorts program)
Down to the Wire Showcase
(with local filmmakers)
Gone Doggy Gone (with Director Kasi Brown)
Home on the Range: featurette
program (with Director Ed
Shank)
Timothy Gruver Spotlight on
Kansas Filmmakers (sponsored
by Mindfire Academy)
Sun Belt Express (with screenwriter Chance Mullen)
VISUAL ARTS
A Life in Dirty Movies (with
subject Peggy Steffans Sarno)
Art and Craft
Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage
Bruce Conner: Crossroads &
Experimental Shorts
Self Medicated: A Film about
Art (with Director Ethan Minsker)
The Brio: animated shorts
collection
SPORTS
Brave New Wild
Fight Church
Light Fly, Fly High
Running Blind (short)
ASIAN INFLUENCE
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Man from Reno (with Assoc.
Producer Mye Hoang)
Pretty Rosebud (with star
25, 1946. Playing with new experimental shorts.
Sat., Oct. 18, 12:00 pm, Orpheum
The Supreme Price, 2:15
Oil & Water Fri., Oct. 17, 12:15 Oct. 19, 4:00 pm, Garvey Mediterranean
Self Medicated: A Film About
pm, Center for the Arts; Sat. Oct.
Limited Partnership with
Art, 4:15 pm
18, 12:15 pm, Garvey Mediterranean
Spotlight on Bruce Conner
Recognized as one of the leaders of New American Cinema in
the 1960’s, Bruce Conner transformed the discards of pop culture - from B-movie clips to
newsreel and television footage into an art form that paved the
way to the music video. Conner’s
films, as with his art, are politically charged, humorous, melancholic, and unsettlingly beautiful. In conjunction with Bruce
Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints
(Sept. 5- Dec. 14, Ulrich Museum
of Art, Wichita State University.)
The Art of the Montage: A
retrospective shorts program
featuring a selection of Conner’s
films made over a 50-year period
from 1958-2008.
Fri., Oct. 17, 2:15 pm, WSU
Shiftspace
Sat., Oct. 18, 4:30 pm, WSU
Shiftspace
Crossroads & Experimental
Shorts: A retrospective look at
Bruce Conner’s landmark 35mm
film (featuring a brand new,
restored 35mm, print) in which
he combined repeated slowmotion images from National
Archives footage of the first
underwater hydrogen bomb test
conducted on Bikini Atoll on July
Grasscendo
Greengrass
This selection of environmentally-focused films is sponsored
by PRo Kansas and The Great
Plains Nature Center.
Brave New Wild Fri. Oct. 17,
10:15 am, WSU Shiftspace
The Great Invisible Thurs.
Oct. 16, 5:00 pm, Orpheum
Growing Cities with Co-Producer Brent Lubbert, Sat. Oct.
18, 1:15 pm, Wichita Art Museum
This film will also screen at a
private showing for USD 259
High School Students at East High
School
Home on the Range: Kansas
Documentary Program: This
featurette program showcases
two films that focus on cattle
ranching and wheat harvesting
in Kansas including Cowboys
(Director Ed Shank) and Great
American Wheat Harvest (Director Conrad Weaver.) Filmmakers will attend. Thurs., Oct.
16, 11:45 AM, Historical Museum
This program of films with
music-themes is sponsored by
Subaru of Wichita.
Thurs., Oct. 16, 1:15 pm, Scottish
Rite; Sat. Oct. 18, 4:45 pm, Orpheum
Keep On Keepin’ On, Sat.
Oct. 18, 1:30 pm, Scottish Rite
Traitors Fri. Oct. 17, 7:45 pm,
Scottish Rite
LGBTQ Films
This group of LGBTQ-themed
films is sponsored by Liberty
Press.
The David Dance with Writer/Actor Don Scime, Sat. Oct. 18,
2:00 pm, Bank of America; Sun.
Chuti Tiu)
Yojimbo
Metro Manilla
CHURCH DIALOGUE
Fight Church (with Director
Bryan Storkel)
Little Hope was Arson (with
Director Theo Love)
The Overnighters
IMMIGRATION ISSUES
Limited Partnership (with
subject Clela Rorex)
WOMEN’S STUDIES
The Battle: A Matter of Conflict (featurettes program)
Light Fly, Fly High
Pretty Sosebud (with star Chuti Tiu)
Subject Clela Rorex, Fri. Oct. 17,
2:15 pm, Garvey Forum; Sat. Oct.
18, 4:45 pm, Garvey Forum
Queens & Cowboys: A
Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo Sat, Oct. 18, 2:15 pm, Garvey Mediterranean, Sun. Oct. 19,
9:00 am, Garvey Mediterranean
Free Friday Films
These educational film selections are offered free of charge
to students/teachers and seniors
65+ with valid ID, on Friday,
October 17th only. This program
is sponsored by Prairie Fire Coffee Roasters.
The Battle: A Matter of Conflict (Featurette Program) 2:15
pm at Scottish Rite
Brave New Wild, 10:15 am at
WSU Shift Space
The Kill Team, 12:15 pm at
WSU Shift Space
Limited Partnership, 2:15 pm
at Garvey Forum
Light Fly, Fly High, 3:00 pm at
Garvey Mediterranean
These educational films are
offered free of charge to the
public at the Wichita Center for
the Arts:
Art & Craft, 10:00 am
Oil & Water, 12:15
The Supreme Price
CASUALTIES OF CONFLICT
& OPRESSION
The Burden: Wounds of Conflict (shorts program)
The Kill Team
Light Fly, Fly High
Silenced (with Director James
Spione)
The Supreme Price
FREE SCREENINGS AT
WICHITA CENTER FOR THE
ARTS
(Friday, Oct. 17)
Art and Craft
Oil & Water
The Supreme Price
Spotlight on Women
Directors
Art & Craft (Co-Directed by
Jennifer Grausman), Fri., Oct.
17, 10:00 am, Center for the Arts,
Sun. Oct. 19, 12:00 pm, Wichita
Art Museum
Brave New World (Directed
by Oakley Anderson-Moore) Fri.,
Oct. 17, 10:15 am, Shift Space
The David Dance (Directed
by Aprill Winney) Sat. Oct. 18,
Oct. 19, 4:00 pm, Garvey Mediterranean
The Great Invisible (Directed
by Margaret Brown) Thurs., Oct.
16, 5:00 pm, Orpheum
Gone Doggy Gone (Directed
by Kasi Brown. Brown will attend screening.) Thurs., Oct. 17,
7:00 pm, Orpheum
Light Fly, Fly High (Directed
by Beathe Hoffseth, Susan Ostigaard) Fri. Oct. 18, 3:00 pm,
Stray Dog (Directed by the
Academy-Award nominated
Debra Granik) Fri. Oct. 18, 4:30
pm, Scottish Rite
The Supreme Price (Directed
by Joanna Lipper) Fri. Oct. 18,
2:15 pm, Center for the Arts
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Purchase your 5-day, all-access
VIP TALLPass ($195) for the best
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You’ll have access to over 200
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you mingle with visiting
filmmakers, festival
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tastemakers.
The TALLPass admits
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Films, all Gala Films and
After-Parties, all Filmmaker Labs and the following VIP-only events (one
guest/per pass) :
■ Thursday, October 16:
5:00 - 6:30 pm: Go Wichita VIP Shindig at Penthouse at Mayflower Plaza
Join festival sponsors and
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them to Wichita at one of the
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Drinks, eats from Chapada
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■ Friday, October 18:
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Gather above Douglas Ave. at the
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party on the tracks. Drinks, eats from Olive
Tree Catering & live music by Aaron Lee
Martin. (700 E. Douglas)
■ Sunday, October 19:
10:00 am - noon: Firkin Filmmaker
Brunch at The Monarch, Presented by
Gavin Peters Photography
The weekend’s not over yet - time for a
little hair of the dog. Join us for a delicious
brunch at The Monarch Gastropub and a
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Consolidated Equities Trust VIP
Lounge
VIP lounge schedule
(subject to change)
Thank you to all of the wonderful vendors
who’ve contributed to our VIP experience.
Thursday, Oct. 16
(9:00 am - 5:00 pm)
“Get the Heck into Dodge” with Dodge
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10:00 am: Chair Massages by Massology Spa
11:00 am: Salad Bar by Fork and Fennel
11:00 am: Lunch by Douglas Avenue
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12:00 pm: Bloom Wellness Stretch and
Bend Yoga session
Bend Yoga session
3:00 pm: Cocktail Hour sponsored by
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3:00 pm: Special Musical Performance
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4:00 pm - Bloom Wellness Stretch and
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Friday, Oct. 17
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all levels. Mats and blocks provided. (See
schedule)
Recycling sponsored by PRo Kansas
(9:00 am-5:00 pm)
“Get the Heck into Dodge” with Boot
Hill Casino
9:00 am: Breakfast by Jimmie’s Diner
11:00 am: Lunch by NuWay and Larkspur
11:00 am: Music Styling’s of DJ Carbon
Beer Store
11:00 am: Irvin Jacks Mens Barber Spa
Bend Yoga Session
Bend Yoga session
Public Oldtown
by Emily Strom
Bend Yoga session
Saturday, Oct. 18th
(9:00 am-5:00 pm)
“Get the Heck into Dodge” with The
Depot Theater Company serving Miss Kitty
Vodka
9:00 am: Breakfast by Public Oldtown
9:00 am: Bloody Mary Bar sponsored
by The Anchor
11:00 am: Sliders from Heroes
11:00 am: Salad Bar by Fork and Fennell
11:00 am: Lunch by NuWay
11:00 am: Music Styling’s of DJ Akira
sponsored by Lucky’s Everyday and Kirby’s Beer Store
Bend Yoga Session
Bend Yoga session
Miss Kitty Vodka
by Ryan Windham
Bend Yoga session
Sunday, Oct. 19
(Noon-5:00 pm)
Hill Museum serving homemade fudge all
day.
12:00 pm: Salad bar by Fork and Fennell
12:00 pm: Lunch by Al’s Tex Mex
12:00 pm: VIP Glamour Bar sponsored
by Major Hair Co.
12:00 pm: Music Styling’s of DJ BJ
3:00 pm: Wine and Chocolate Pairing
sponsored by Cocoa Dolce
3:00 pm: Jack Daniel’s Family Brand
Tasting
Have a TALLPass, Sponsor or Filmmaker
NOTABLE FILM PROGRAMS, CONT. FROM PAGE 18
Festival Satellite Shows
The Tallgrass Film Festival
Satellite Screening features a
selection of short films in a specially curated program for our
Kansas Historic Theatre Association member theatres across
the state. A program of the Tall-
grass Film Association, a 501(c)3
organization, the Tallgrass Film
Festival fosters the cinematic arts
by creating shared experiences
around the international medium of film. Support your local
historic theatre and experience
the world through a different
lens at the Tallgrass Film Festival
Satellite Screening.
Augusta Historic Theater,
Sat. Oct. 11, 2:00 & 7:00 pm, $6
McPherson Opera House,
Tues. Oct. 14, 7:00 pm, $4
Throughout the year, TFA
collaborates with Kansas Historic
Theatre Association member
theatres to present a Traveling
Road Show of short films in
support of theatre restoration.
This year’s venues included: C.L.
Hoover Opera House (Junction
City), Colonial Fox Theatre
(Pittsburg,) Historic Fox Theatre
(Hutchinson,) Paola Community
Center (Paola,) and McPherson
Opera House (McPherson.)
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GET SMART! FILMMAKER LABS, ROUNDTABLES & TALLGRASS TALKS
Tallgrass is pleased to offer the
following educational offerings
at the festival. For filmmakers
and film aficianados alike, Filmmaker Labs, Tallgrass Talks and
Roundtables offer exceptional
insight into the process of independent filmmaking from beginning to end. Tallgrass’ educational opportunities advance the
organization’s role in cultivating
an audience and a filmmaking
community that is more vibrant
and informed. Apart from postfilm Q&A’s, all educational
events take place in the Film Lab
at the Lux and are open to the
public.
Throughout the festival
Filmmaker Q&A’s: One of the
highlights of seeing movies at a
film festival is the post-screening
Q&A’s with visiting filmmakers,
where you gain valuable insight
into their films and processes.
This year’s Q&A sessions are
sponsored by The Wichita Luxury Collection: A member of the
Scholfield Auto Group. (See a
full list of visiting filmmakers on
Page 17)
Friday, Oct. 17
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Roundtable:
Filmmakers in Their Natural
Habitat: Meet the Class of 2014
as they introduce their projects
to one another, share war stories
and triumphs and give the behind the scenes scoop on their
projects. Moderated by KMUW’s
Fletcher Powell. (Free)
mentary. ($10 GA)
Noon - 1:00 pm: Tallgrass
Talk: Kurosawa & The Western
The samurai films of Japanese
director Akira Kurosawa exerted
a strong influence on the Western, both in Hollywood and
Europe. Using film clips, Film
Historian and Kurosawa Scholar
Stephen Prince explores this
influence and discusses how
Kurosawa’s samurai and the
American gunfighter are similar
figures of myth and legend.
(Free)
Meet the Distributors: Join
members of the Stubbornly Independent Jury and visiting filmmakers as they talk about the
state of distribution for independent film. Moderated by
Monterey Media’s Scott Mansfield. (Free)
Sunday, Oct. 19
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Filmmaker
Lab: Documentary 101
Alumni Filmmaker Mark Covino (Dir. A BAND CALLED
DEATH) returns with a crash
course in the world of documentary filmmaking. The workshop will examine the ways in
which artists use the moving
image to explore, represent,
construct and change the world.
Technical and aesthetic aspects
of video production will be covered as well. ($10 GA)
Crowdfunding Your Indie
Film: Is crowd-funding your film
project a sure-bet? Chat with
visiting filmmakers who have
used crowd-funding platforms to
finance their films and get the
straight-scoop on what works
and what doesn’t. Moderated by
KMUW’s Fletcher Powell. (Free)
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10:00 - 11:00 am: Filmmaker
Lab: Acting for Indie Film
Your script is great, your cinematography is beautiful, the
story is worth telling... but if
your actors aren’t good, nobody
cares. Alumni Filmmaker (FAVOR) and Writer/director/actor
Blayne Weaver will discuss the
challenges, benefits and tricks to
working with actors in independent film. While directing the
actor’s performance is a huge
responsibility, it’s only one aspect in the actor-director relationship. This workshop will
explore everything from the first
steps of auditioning talent and
negotiating with agents to the
actual shooting and then on to
post-production, red carpet,
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THE FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE
Wednesday, Oct. 15
Friday, Oct. 17
Saturday, Oct. 18
Sunday, Oct. 19
7:00 p.m. - Life Itself (Orpheum)
9:30 p.m. - Opening Night Gala Party
(Union Station)
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - VIP Filmmaker
Lounge (Candela At The Lux)
9:45 a.m. - The Great Invisible (Garvey Forum)
10:00 a.m. - The Burgeoning (Garvey
- Med)
10:00 a.m. - Art & Craft (Center for
the Arts)
10:00 a.m. - The Overnighters (Scottish Rite)
10:15 a.m. - Brave New Wild (WSU
Shiftspace) Oakley Anderson-Moore
11:00 a.m. - The Salvation (Orpheum)
11:15 a.m. - The Maltese Falcon
(1931) (Library)
12:00 p.m. - Kumiko, The Treasure
Hunter (Scottish Rite)
12:00 p.m. - The Brio (Garvey Forum)
12:30 p.m. - The Bonds (Garvey Med)
12:15 p.m. - The Kill Team - (WSU
Shiftspace)
12:15 p.m. - Oil & Water (Center for
the Arts)
1:00 p.m. - Satan Met A Lady (Library)
1:15 p.m. - The Life and Mind of Mark
DeFriest (Orpheum)
2:00 p.m. - Filmmakers in Their Natural Habitat Film Lab at the Lux
2:15 p.m. - The Battle (Scottish Rite)
2:15 p.m. - Limited Partnership (Garvey Forum)
2:15 p.m. - Bruce Conner: The Art of
Montage (WSU Shiftspace)
2:15 p.m. - The Supreme Price (Center for the Arts)
2:45 p.m. - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
(Library)
3:00 p.m. - Light Fly, Fly High (Garvey
- Med)
3:45 p.m. - The Dark Valley (Orpheum)
4:15 p.m. - Self Medicated: A Film
About Art (Center for the Arts)
4:30 p.m. - Stray Dog (Scottish Rite)
4:30 p.m. - Little Hope Was Arson
(Garvey Forum)
4:45 p.m. - Metro Manila (WSU Shiftspace)
5:00 p.m. - Mood Indigo (Garvey Med)
5:00 p.m. - Tallgrass Brewing Co.
Shindig (Transportation Museum)
7:30 p.m. - Yojimbo (Orpheum)
7:45 p.m. - Traitors (Scottish Rite)
9:45 p.m. - Child of God (Scottish
Rite)
10:00 p.m. - Return of the Reels Gala
Party (Cowtown)
11:59 p.m. - A Fistful of Dollars (Orpheum)
9:00 a.m. - Kumiko, The Treasure
9:00 a.m. - The Bright (WSU Shiftspace)
9:30 a.m. - The Dark Valley (Orpheum)
9:30 a.m. - The Brio (Garvey Forum)
9:30 a.m. - The Bonds (Bank of America)
10:00 a.m. - The Burden (Garvey
Med)
10:00 a.m. - Acting for Indie Film, Film
Lab, at the Lux
11:15 a.m. - A is for Alex (Scottish
Rite) Alex Orr
11:30 a.m. - The Bold (WSU Shiftspace)
12:00 p.m. - Bruce Conner: Crossroads & Experimental Shorts (Orpheum)
12:00 p.m. - The Life & Mind of Mark
DeFriest (Garvey Forum)
12:00 p.m. - The David Dance (Bank
of America)
12:00 p.m. - Kurosawa & The West
Film Lab at the Lux
12:15 p.m. - Oil & Water (Garvey
Med)
1:15 p.m. - Growing Cities (Wichita
Art Museum)
1:30 p.m. - Keep On Keepin On
(Scottish Rite)
2:00 p.m. - The Bizarre (WSU Shiftspace)
2:00 p.m. - Distribs on Distribution
Film Lab at the Lux
2:15 p.m. - Queens & Cowboys (Garvey Med)
(Garvey Forum)
2:30 p.m. - Half Brother (Orpheum)
2:30 p.m. - Silenced (Bank of America)
About Art (Wichita Art Museum)
3:45 p.m. - Man From Reno (Scottish
Rite)
4:30 p.m. - A Life in Dirty Movies
(Garvey Med)
4:45 p.m. - Johnny Winter: Down &
Dirty (Orpheum)
4:45 p.m. - The Bloody (Bank of
America)
7:15 p.m. - Longwave (Orpheum)
7:30 p.m. - The Living (Scottish Rite)
9:15 p.m. - Ladies of the House (Orpheum)
10:00 p.m. - Stubbornly Independent
Gala Party (Emprise Bank Parking Garage)
11:59 p.m. - Wetlands (Orpheum)
12:00 - 5:00 p.m. - VIP Filmmaker
9:00 a.m. - The Kill Team - (Scottish
Rite)
9:00 a.m. - Queens & Cowboys: A
Straight Year on The Gay Rodeo (Garvey Med)
9:00 a.m. - The Burgeoning (Bank of
America)
9:30 a.m. - The Bright (Garvey Forum)
10:00 a.m. - Firkin Filmmaker Brunch
(Monarch)
11:00 a.m. - Silenced (Scottish Rite)
11:15 a.m. - Bona Fide (Garvey Med)
11:30 a.m. - The Salvation (Bank of
America)
12:00 p.m. - Down to the Wire Showcase (Garvey Forum)
12:00 p.m. - Documentary:101 Film
Lab at the Lux
12:00 p.m. - Art & Craft (Wichita Art
Museum)
1:30 p.m. - Pretty Rosebud (Scottish
Rite)
1:45 p.m. - Joel Fein Emerging Student Shorts (Garvey Med)
(Bank of America)
2:00 p.m. - The Overnighters (Garvey
Forum)
2:00 p.m. - Mood Indigo (Wichita Art
Museum)
3:45 p.m. - Five Star (Orpheum)
3:45 p.m. - Sunbelt Express (Scottish
Rite)
4:00 p.m. - The David Dance (Garvey
Med)
4:00 p.m. - Love Land (Bank of America)
4:00 p.m. - Crowdfunding Your Film
Film Lab at the Lux
4:30 p.m. - Timothy Gruver Spotlight
on Kansas Filmmakers (Garvey Forum)
7:00 p.m. - Before I Disappear (Orpheum)
9:00 p.m. - Closing Night Gala Party
(Block1 Parking Garage)
Thursday, Oct. 16
10:30 a.m. - Metro Manila (Scottish
Rite)
11:45 a.m. - Cowboys with The Great
American Wheat Harvest (Historical
Museum)
Dirty (Scottish Rite)
3:00 p.m. - Bona Fide (Historical
Museum)
3:45 p.m. - Fight Church (Scottish
Rite)
5:00 p.m. - Go Wichita VIP Shindig
(Rooftop At Sutton Place)
5:00 p.m. - The Great Invisible (Orpheum)
7:00 p.m. - Gone Doggy Gone (Orpheum)
7:30 p.m. - Mad As Hell (Scottish
Rite)
Vimeo
Audience
Award
Every vote counts so grab your ballot
and cast your vote for the Vimeo Audience Awards. All “in competition" films
are eligible to win. On Sunday evening, votes will be tallied and awards
will be given to the Feature Narrative
($1,000 Cash Prize), Feature Documentary ($1,000 Cash Prize) and Short
film ($500 Cash Prize) that Tallgrass
audiences appreciated the most. All
monetary prizes are furnished by Vimeo.
These and other awards will be
handed out at the Awards Ceremony at
the Closing Night Gala include special
Golden Strands programming awards,
Best Kansas Short and Best Emerging
Student Short.
Plus, every time you vote, you’ll be
entered to win a VIP TALLPass for the
13th annual Tallgrass Film Festival.
Film lovers, let your voice be heard!
Saddle Up to These
Watering Holes
Join fellow Tallgrass patrons
and visiting filmmakers at some
of our favorite eating & drinking
establishments after the WSU
Thursday Night Spotlight films.
The Anchor, Public Oldtown,
Taste & See, The Monarch,
Heroes & Larkspur will offer a
Tallgrass Beer and Jack Daniel’s
cocktail special.
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Simply Delicious
WITH A SIZZLING SUBPLOT
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SHORTS PROGRAMS
BRUCE CONNER SHOWCASE
Bruce Conner: Crossroads & Experimental
Shorts 71m
Crossroads
Directed by Bruce Conner (USA, 1976, 36m)
A retrospective look at Bruce Conner’s landmark
35mm film (featuring a newly restored 35mm print)
in which he combined repeated slow-motion images
from National Archives footage of the first underwater
hydrogen bomb test conducted on Bikini Atoll on July
25, 1946. Playing with new experimental shorts:
Playing with:
The point, d. Thomas Brandstatter, Andrea Maurer
(USA, 2013, 5m)
The Otherworldly, d. Evan Mann (USA, 2013, 8m)
This is (not) Yates, d. Joshua Yates (USA, 2013,
4m)
Interstates, d. Jeffery Chong (Canada, 2014, 3m)
The Meteor, d. Charles Griffin Gibson (USA, 2013,
15m)
Sat. Oct. 18, noon at the Orpheum
Bruce Conner: The Art of the Montage 75m
Recognized as one of the leaders of New American
Cinema in the 1960s, Bruce Conner transformed the
discards of pop culture - from B-movie clips to newsreel and television footage- into an art form that
paved the way to the music video. (Curated by Film
Forum, NYC.)
Cosmic Ray (1962, 4m)
A Movie (1958, 12m)
The White Rose (1967, 7m)
Marilyn Times Five (1973, 14m)
Vivian (1965, 3m)
Ten Second Film (1965, 0.167m)
Breakaway (1966, 5m)
Mea Culpa (1981, 6m)
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976, 6m)
Valse Triste (1977, 5m)
His Eye Is on the Sparrow (2006, 5m)
Easter Morning (2008, 10m)
Sponsored by Ulrich Museum of Art
Fri. Oct. 17, 2:15 p.m. at WSU Shift Space - $5
Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 4:30 p.m. at WSU Shift Space
FEATURETTES
HOME ON THE RANGE: Kansas Documentary
Program
(Total running time 105m)
Cowboys d. Ed Shank (USA/Greenwood County,
Kan., 2014, 45m)
Great American Wheat Harvest d. Conrad Weaver (USA/Colby, Kan., 2014, 60m)
Sponsored by PRo Kansas & Great Plains Nature
Center
Thur. Oct. 16, 11:45 am at the Wichita Historical
Museum - $5 Matinee
THE BATTLE: A Matter of Conflict
I Married My Family’s Killer d. Emily Kassie (Canada, 2014, 40m)
War Against Women (La Guerra Contra Las
Mujeres) d. Hernan Zin (Spain/USA, 2013, 62m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 2:15 p.m. at the Scottish Rite - $5
matinee GA; This film is also a Free Friday Film Se-
lection and admission is complimentary for students/
teachers/seniors 65+ with valid ID.
THE BURDEN: Wounds of Conflict and
Oppression
Children of War (Atfal al harb) d. Meedo Ali (Iraq,
With Time d. Malak Quota (United Arab Emirates,
2014, 14m)
Aban + Khorshid d. Darwin Serink (USA, 2013,
14m)
We Are The Ones d. Jon Michael Shink, Michael
Skinner (Sudan/USA, 2014, 62m)
Sponsored by KU School of Medicine
Sat. Oct. 18, 10:00 a.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean
SHORTS BEFORE FEATURES
The Struggle of Libations (w.Gone Doggy Gone)
d. Erin Mullally (Ireland, 2014, 8m)
The Missing Scarf (w.Mad As Hell) d. Eoin Duffy
(Ireland, 2013, 7m)
Lomax (w.Johnny Winter) d. Jesse Kreitzer (USA,
2013, 12m)
Meet My Rapist (w.Wetlands) d. Jessie Kahnweiler
(USA, 2013, 7m)
Hoover Road (w.Queens & Cowboys) d. Jonathan
Pope Evans (USA/Kansas, 2014, 16m)
Monotony (w.The Overnighters) d. Joanne Postlewaite (UK, 2013, 3m)
Democracy (Democracia) (w.Longwave) d. Borja
Cobeaga (Spain, 2013, 10m)
Nesma’s Birds (w.Light Fly, Fly High) d. Najwan
Ali & Medoo Ali(Iraq, 2013, 7m) Iraqi Independent
Film Center
Isle de Jean Charles (w.Oil & Water) d. Emmanuel
Vaughan-Lee (USA, 2014, 10m)
Bloodhounds (w.Child of God) d. Alan Scott Neal
(USA, 2014, 15m)
Little Shadow (w.The Kill Team) d. Toby FellHolden (USA, 2013, 18m)
Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution (w.The
Supreme Price) d. Matthew VanDyke (USA, 2013,
15m)
Directors on Directing (w.A Life in Dirty Movies)
Tinker (w.Art & Craft) d. Lou Ward (USA, 2014,
5m)
Claire (w.Traitors) d. Cate Smierciak (Germany,
2014, 14m)
THE BRIGHT: Comic Lighter Fare Shorts
Sheltered Love d. Alex Italics (USA, 2014, 10m)
We Are Friends (Somos Amigos) d. Carlos Solano Perez (Spain, 2014, 13m)
What Cheer d. Michael Slavens (USA, 2014, 17m)
Tape Recorder d. Douglas Horn (USA, 2014, 7m)
Failure Groupies d. Mandira Chauhan (USA, 2014,
13m)
Bingo Night! d. Jordan Liebowitz (USA, 2014,
15m)
The Moped Diaries d. Tyler Nilson, Nick Vitale
(USA, 2013, 10m)
Dad in Mum (Papa dans Maman) d. Fabrice
Bracq (France, 2014, 7m.)
Sat. Oct. 18, 9:00 a.m. at WSU Shift Space
Sun. Oct. 19, 9:30 a.m. at the Garvey Forum
THE BOLD: More Serious Shorts
The Followed d. Zak Klein (UK, 2013, 13m)
From the Sky d. Ian Ebright (USA, 2013, 18m)
Righteous d. Cory Bowles (Canada, 2014, 12m)
Krisha d. Trey Edward Shults (USA, 2013, 15m)
Stop Traffik d. Wes Halula (USA/Kansas City,
2013, 14m)
The Phone Call d. Mat Kirkby (UK, 2013, 21m)
Lambing Season d. Jeannie Donohoe (USA, 2013,
15m)
THE BONA FIDE: Documentary Biopics
Font Man d. Dress Code (USA, 2013, 6m)
Families Are Forever d. Caitlin Ryan (USA, 2013,
21m)
Maikaru d. Amanda Harryman (USA, 2014, 8m)
The Last Days of Peter Bergmann d. Ciaran Cassidy (Ireland, 2013, 20m)
Running Blind d. Ryan Suffern (USA, 2013, 32m)
Find Me a Man d. John Sebelius (USA/Kansas,
2014, 8m)
Dwayne’s Photo d. Sarah George (USA/Kansas,
2014, 7m)
Blind Guy d. Kyle Pugh, Evan Senn (USA/Kansas,
2014, 6m)
Running Blind sponsored by ENVISION
Thur. Oct. 16, 3:00 p.m. at the Wichita Historical
Museum - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct. 19, 11:15 a.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean
THE BRIO: Animated Shorts full of vivacity
Forward, March! d. Pierrick Barbin, Rimelle
Khayat, Loic Le Goff (France, 2013, 4m)
A Tax on Bunny Rabbits, d. Nathaniel Akin (Canada, 2011, 3m)
Sebastian, d. Vlad Marsavin (USA, 2013, 19m)
One Night in Florida, d. Tess Martin (Netherlands,
2013, 1m)
Happily Ever After d. Ben Genislaw, Yonni Aroussi
(Israel, 2012, 7m)
A Ride Towards The Sea, (Une balade a la mer)
d. Damien Stein (France, 2013, 4m)
Eideann, d. Alvaro Granados (Spain, 2013, 5m)
School Friends, d. Johgsu Oh (Australia, 2014,
2m)
Yearbook, d. Bernardo Britto (USA, 2013, 6m)
Silent, d. Sara Hebert (USA, 2014, 3m)
Locked, d. Madaline Barwegen (USA, 2014, 5m)
Payada pa’ Satan, d. Antonio Balseiro, Carlos
Balseiro (Argentina, 2013, 8m)
The Chaperone 3D, d. Fraser Munden, Neil Rathbone (Canada, 2013, 12m)
Rabbit and Deer, (Nyuszi es Oz) d. Peter Vacz
(Hungary, 2013, 17m)
Humanexus, d. Ying-Fan Shen (USA, 2013, 11m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00 p.m. at the Garvey Forum - $5
Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30 AM at the Garvey Forum
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SHORTS PROGRAMS
THE BONDS: Relationships — some
complicated, some not
Two Penny Road Kill d. Lisa Rose Snow (Canada,
2013, 7m)
Molly d. Craig Elrod (USA, 2014, 13m)
In Passing d. Alan Miller (Canada, 2013, 5m)
Tom in America d. Flavio Alves (Brazil/USA, 2014,
16m)
My Guide d. Barnabas Toth (Hungary, 2013, 13m)
Electric Indigo d. Jean-Julien Collette (Belgium/
France, 2013, 24m)
Life’s A Bitch (Toutes des Connes) d. Francois
Jaros (Canada, 2013, 6m)
The Proposal d. Geordie Sabbagh (Canada, 2013,
8m)
The Morning After d. David Renaud (Canada,
2013, 14m)
The Struggle of Libations d. Erin Mullally (Ireland, 2014, 8m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:30 p.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean - $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30 AM at Bank of America
THE BIZARRE: Sci-fi and just plain strange
Leviathan Ages d. Jon Yeo (UK, 2013, 4m)
Stereo Love d. Martin Lliev (Bulgaria, 2013, 9m)
Liability d. Travis Aitken (USA, 2013, 6m)
Load d. Paul-Anthony Navarro (USA, 2013, 11m)
Project: EGO d. Angel Alvarez (Canada, 2014, 4m)
Tall Evil d. Wally Chung (USA, 2013, 3m)
The Routine d. Brian Groh (USA, 2013, 10m)
Astigmatismo d. Nicholai Troshinsky (Spain, 2013,
4m)
First Prize d. Kevin McMullin (USA, 2013, 10m)
The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey
Danger d. Michael Lukk Litwak (USA, 2013, 10m)
Total Freak d. Andrew Ellmaker (USA, 2014, 10m)
THE BLOODY: A blend of dark, ruthless and
somewhat bloody
Last Shot d. Greg Popp (USA, 2013, 11m)
Sibling Rivalry d. Colin Davis (Canada, 2013, 8m)
One Armed Man d. Tim Guinee (USA, 2014, 28m)
#twitterkills d. Brett Sorem (USA, 2013, 11m)
Dead Hearts d. Stephen Martin (Canada, 2014,
17m)
Counter Parts d. Patrick Rea (USA/Kansas, 2014,
13m)
Fool’s Day d. Cody Blue Snider (USA, 2013, 20m)
Sat. Oct. 18, 4:45 p.m. at Bank of America
THE BURGEONING: Coming-of-age
Full-Windsor d. Faraday Okoro (USA, 2014, 6m)
Whale Valley, (Hvalfjorour) d. Guomundur Arnar
Guomundsson (Iceland/Denmark, 2013, 16m)
Lipstick d. Luay Fadhil (Iraq, 2013, 9m) Iraqi Independent Film Center
Up on the Roof d. Nour Wazzi (UK, 2013, 17m)
Rite of Spring d. Glen Wood (Canada, 2014, 11m)
Hero d. Benoit Martin (France, 2013, 22m)
The Hero Pose d. Mischa Jakupcak (USA, 2013,
13m)
Bernard The Great d. Marie-Helene Viens, Philippe
Lupien (Canada, 2013, 10m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:00 AM at the Garvey Mediterranean - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct. 19, 9:00 AM at Bank of America
TIMOTHY GRUVER SPOTLIGHT ON
KANSAS FILMMAKERS PROGRAM
Knee Jerk Reflex d. Andrew Regoli (Wichita, 2014,
4m) ICTFest Visual Noise Music Video Contest Winner
The 6th Stage of Sugar d. Emily Railsback (Chicago-Hillsboro/Peabody, 2013, 13m)
The Burden of Being d. Rodrick Pocowatchit
(Wichita, 2014, 12m)
MasterPiece,d. Meagan Flynn, Amber Rapp
(Shawnee, 2014, 5m)
Drive-Ins Driven Out? d. John Kitch (Conway
Springs, 2014, 12m)
Diner Off The Highway d. Drew Conley/p. Megan
Fleming (Nebraska-Lawrence, 2014, 7m)
Mouth Breather d. Tyler Doehring (New YorkWichita, 2013, 13m)
Last Week d. Vaughn Fry (Wichita, 2014, 4m)
Housekeeping d. Catherine Licata (Austin-Lenexa/
Lawrence, 2014, 16 m)
Good Conduct d. Patrick Rea (Lawrence, 2014,
8m)
Oklahoma d. Tyler Emerson (Wichita, 2014, 3m)
Sponsored by Mindfire Academy
Sun. Oct. 19, 4:30 p.m. at the Garvey Forum
JOEL FEIN EMERGING FILMMAKER
PROGRAM: High School and Younger
Little Kitty in the Big City d. Nick Connell (USA/
Towanda, Kan., 2014, 6m)
Screenwriter’s Block d. James Tralie (USA/Pennsylvania, 2013, 3m)
King’s Cross d. Benjamin Murphy (Australia, 2014,
9m)
Breaking Point d. Samuel Gouldthorpe (USA/
California, 2013, 4m)
Changing Identity d. Mary Adams (USA/Georgia,
2013, 4m)
Lunch with Yoshi d. Chaitanya Gopinath (Thailand, 2012, 5m)
Penelope’s Penguin d. Oliver Levi-Malouf (Australia, 2013, 7m)
Heavenly d. Caroline Palsi (USA/New Jersey, 2014,
12m)
James d. Jonah Haber (Canada, 2013, 4m)
Model Figure d. Isabella Olaguera (USA/New
Jersey, 2014, 5m)
Connie d. Abbey Sacks (USA/Washington, 2014,
2m)
Soul’d d. Samantha Mustari (USA/New Jersey,
2013, 6m)
Inside the Ring d. Darian Henry (USA/New York,
2013, 8m)
Black Rock Creek d. Malone Lumarda (USA/California, 2013, 5m)
Your Second Self d. Anna Vosbigian (USA/California, 2m)
Violets Are Blue d. Kathryn McCarthy (USA/Florida, 2014, 7m)
Short Circuit d. Marina Bruno (Canada, 2013, 6m)
Laundry Day d. Michael Stevantoni (Canada, 2013,
3m)
Falling d. Miles Warren (USA/New York, 2014, 7m)
Timeless Solutions d. Mark Breedlove (USA/
Illinois, 2014, 8m)
Sponsored by The Galichia Foundation
Sun. Oct. 19, 1:45 p.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean
DOWN TO THE WIRE SHOWCASE: Films
from the Down to the Wire: 24 Hour Film
Race ... with a twist!
Cat Zero d. Lonny Quattlebaum (Creature Feature,
USA/Kansas, 2014, 4m) 2nd place
One Life Left d. Kevin Wildt (Adventure, USA/
Kansas, 2014, 6m) 3rd place
The Curse of the Cat d. Chris Steinert (Musical,
USA/Kansas, 2014, 6m)
Catnap d. Alex Thomas (RomCom, USA/Kansas,
2014, 6m)
From Wichita With Love d. Ryan Gates (Spy, USA/
Kansas, 2014, 4m)
The Good, The Bad, & The Fury d. Christopher
Ary (Western, USA/Kansas, 2014, 6m) Audience
Choice
Sponsored by Blacktop Nationals & CreativeRush
Sun. Oct. 19, noon at the Garvey Forum
SATELLITE ROAD SHOW
Drive-Ins Driven Out? d. John Kitch (USA/Conway Springs, Kan., 2014, 12m)
Fleming (USA/Lawrence, Kan., 2014, 7m)
Lomax d. Jesse Kreitzer (USA, 2013, 12m)
Find Me a Man d. John Sebelius (USA/Topeka,
Kan., 2014, 8m)
15m)
Augusta Historic Theater, Sat. Oct. 11, 2:00 &
7:00 p.m., $6
McPherson Opera House, Tues. Oct. 14, 7:00
p.m., $4
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IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BIG READ
These selections screen for free intrigue of a statuette known as
at the Wichita Public Library in the Maltese Falcon.
association with the 2014 Big
Fri. Oct. 17, 11:15 a.m.
Read:
Satan Met a Lady
The Maltese Falcon
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Starring Bebe Daniels, Ricardo
Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma Todd
1931, 80m, USA
A lovely dame with dangerous
lies employs the services of a
private detective, who is quickly
caught up in the mystery and
Directed by William Dieterie
Starring Bette Davis, Warren
William, Alison Skipworth, Arthur
Treacher
1936, 74m, USA
Sardonic detective Ted Shane,
thrown out of one town for
bringing trouble, heads for home
and his ex-partner's detective
agency.
The Maltese Falcon
Directed by John Huston
Starring Humphrey Bogart,
Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter
Lorre
1941, 100m, USA
A private detective takes on a
case that involves him with three
eccentric criminals, a gorgeous
liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Fri. Oct. 17, 2:45 p.m.
VISITING FILMMAKERS & GUESTS
■ Filmmakers:
Oakley Anderson-Moore, Brave
New Wild
Kasi Brown, Gone Doggy Gone
Jack Byran, The Living
John Diaz, Five Star
Laura DuBois, The Living
Anthony Grippa, Half Brother
Mye Hoang, Man From Reno
Emily Kassie, I Married My Family’s
Killer
Theo Love, Little Hope Was
Arson
Brent Lubbert, Growing Cities
David McGowan, The Struggle of
Libations
Ethan Minsker, Self Medicated:
A Film About Art
Chance Mullen, SunBelt Express
Andrew Napier, Before I
Disappear, Mad As Hell, Grandma’s Not a Toaster
Alex Orr, A is for Alex
Damien Patrik, Directors on Directing
Zak Piper, Life Itself
Emily Railsback, 6th Stage of Sugar
Patrick Rea, Counter Parts
Clela Rorex, Limited Partnership
Charlie Sadoff, The Life & Mind of
Mark DeFriest
Don Scime, The David Dance
Ed Shank, Cowboys
Jon Michael Shink, We Are The
Ones
Michael Skinner, We Are The Ones
John Snyder, The Living
James Spione, Silenced
Peggy Steffans Sarno, A Life in
Dirty Movies
Bryan Storkel, Fight Church
Josh Tate, Love Land
Chuti Tiu, Pretty Rosebud
Conrad Weaver, Great American
Wheat Harvest
John Wildman, Ladies of the House
■ Guests:
Andrea Allen, Director of Production, Vimeo
Jason Bailey, Flavorwire Film Editor
Mark Covino, Filmmaker (A Band
Called Death), Filmmaker Lab
Instructor
Brian Flanagan, Senior Director,
In-Theatre Marketing, Roadside
Attractions
Jenny Jacobi, Project Manager,
Drafthouse Media
Scott Mansfield, Managing Partner,
Monterey Media
Stephen Prince, Film Historian/
Kurosawa Scholar
Blayne Weaver, Filmmaker (Favor),
Filmmaker Lab Instructor
Plus many more local and
regional filmmakers
BOX OFFICE INFO, CONT. FROM PAGE 7
of films are offered free of charge
to students, teachers and seniors
VIP TALLPass: $195 (includes
65+ on the morning and afternoon
5-day admission to all Galas, GA
of Friday, Oct. 17. Sponsored by
films, Educational Offerings, VIP
Prairie Fire Coffee Roasters.
Receptions & VIP Lounge)
Free Films at Wichita Center
Student TALLPass: $80 (infor the Arts & Wichita Public
cludes admission to all Gala Films, Library: All films screening at
GA films and educational offerthese venues are free. Seating is
ings)
available on a first-come, firstGeneral Admission: $10
serve basis.
Discounted General AdmisFine Print: Once purchased,
sion: $8 for students, teachers,
tickets are non-refundable and
seniors 65+, military with valid ID
non-exchangeable. Many films
General Admission Matinees: have not yet been rated by the
$5 admission for films starting
MPAA, parental discretion is adbefore 5:00 pm on Thursday and
vised. No babes in arms. Program
Friday
running times may or may not
Gala Tickets: $25 includes
include introductions, shorts, and
movie & after party with open bar, Q&A’s.
eats & live music
Gala Film-Only Tickets: $15
Box Office F.A.Q.’s
available only for Opening Night,
TALLPass Vouchers: If you’ve
Return of the Reels and Closing
received a TALLPass voucher, it
Night Gala. Does not include
must be exchanged at festival will
admission to the party.
call. (see Page 7 for hours & locaFree Friday Films: A selection
Ticket Prices
STUFF FOR STUDENTS
Fri. Oct. 17, 1:00 p.m.
tion.)
GA & GALA VOUCHERS: Gala
Vouchers must be exchanged in
person at the Orpheum, Scottish
Rite or Garvey Theater Box Office
for an actual ticket. GA vouchers
may be exchanged at any box
office for a ticket. Vouchers have
no cash value and are non-refundable.
Online Pass Purchases: All
TALLPasses purchased online
must be picked up at Will Call.
Gala Tickets: Gala tickets are
sold as a package, including movie and after-party. Galas are
fundraisers for TFA and gala tickets are only valid for the individual
gala on the ticket. Individual movie
tickets are available for Opening
Night, Return of the Reels and
Closing Night Galas for $15.
Seating: Seating is first-come,
first-serve. We strongly encourage
you to be at the theater and in
your seat 15 minutes prior to
showtime.
Tallgrass offers many unique
educational opportunities for
students (of all ages and skill
sets) to learn about the craft of
cinematic arts, and encourages
students to meet filmmakers,
watch movies and attend educational events, many of which
are free or at low cost.
Free Friday Films: With
their valid school ID’s, students
are offered complimentary
admission to the Free Friday
Films selection, courtesy of
(see full list on Page 18)
Filmmaker Roundtables:
Various filmmaker roundtable
discussions are offered
throughout the festival at no
cost. (see Page 20)
Filmmaker Labs/Tallgrass
Talk: Students are encouraged
to attend instructional learning
events presented at the festival
by visiting filmmakers and
guests. (see Page 18)
Spotlight on Kansas Filmmakers/Emerging Filmmaker Program: With a valid
school ID, students are invited
to attend these programs free
of charge. (See Page 25)
Discounted GA Tickets/
Student TALLPass: With a
valid school ID, students received a discounted $8 admission to all general admission
films. A Student TALLPass is
also available which grants the
bearer admission to all GA
films, Gala Films (excludes
parties) and Filmmaker Labs.
Volunteer: The festival
offers great service opportunities for high school and college
students. Not only are these a
great way to network with
peers and filmmakers, but it’s a
nice addition for any application or resume.
Emerging Programmer
Apprentices: Each year, Tallgrass offers local high school
students an opportunity to
assist with the programming
process by learning how films
are critiqued and programmed.
Check the website in early
2015 for application information. (See credits page for this
year’s list of EPA’s.)
COMING SOON
■ Amadeus
Fri., Nov. 7, 2014, 7:30 pm,
Orpheum
The Wichita Symphony Orchestra, in association with
TFA, presents a 30th anniversary screening of the Academy
Award winning film AMADEUS
on 35 mm film, in advance of
their November 15 & 16 Mozart & Salieri performance at
Century II Concert Hall. For
more information visit wichitasymphony.org.
■ Smallgrass Film Festival
Sat., Jan. 17, 2015, 10 a.m.,
Boeing Dome Theater and
Planetarium at Exploration
Place
Get
your kids
out of
the
house during this three-day
weekend with special family
friendly films, including the
premiere of Exploration Place’s
newest dome theater film,
Animalopolis. Children as
young as three-years-old can
take a light-hearted look at the
animal kingdom with the film’s
Seussian-styled, rhyming narration and humorous scenes.
Discover interesting facts
about cheetahs, bears, lions,
crabs, sea lions, and hippopotamuses. Film selections include shorts and retrospective
and new works.
■ Indie at the Orpheum
presented by Tallgrass Film
Association
Sundays, 2015, Orpheum
TFA and the Wichita Orpheum are pleased to announce a new independent
film screening series. On the
second Sunday of every other
month, Tallgrass will present a
matinee screening of a new or
retrospective independent
film. Save the dates: Jan. 11,
March 8, May 10, July 12,
Sept. 13, Nov. 8 and visit tallgrassfilmfest.com in the coming months for more information.
■ Big Fish Soiree
May 13, 2015, Downing
Children’s Garden at Botanica
TFA and MTWichita present
a BIG FISH celebration, including a screening of the Tim
Burton film (2003,) and garden party. Special guests will
attend and residents will be
invited to submit their own tall
tales and family legends.
MTWichita will present the
musical adaption of BIG FISH
as part of their 44th season,
July 22-26th.
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Volunteers keep
the Grass tall
The Tallgrass Staff and Board of
Directors extend a very-special
thank you to the volunteers who
make the Tallgrass Film Festival
possible. These people work
tirelessly year-round and we
couldn’t do it without them. Look
for our “Deputies” in their bright
orange shirts, and know how
important they are to the success
of Tallgrass.
The Staff & Board also send an
“extra-special thank you, happy
birthday, farewell & we’ll miss you"
to our Volunteer Director Gay
Quisenberry who will be retiring
after this year’s festival. Don’t be a
stranger!
Volunteers, don’t forget to visit
the Clear Channel Outdoor Volunteer Lounge throughout the festival for sustenance and entertainment. Thank you to all of the local
businesses who support our
Tallgrass volunteers.
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CREDITS
My Eye on Photography
Missing: Arietta Austin, Anne Bowman, Shan Jabara, Erin Patten,
Ashley Randall
The Stubbornly
Independent Trail
I
t’s an undeniable fact, independent filmmakers are cinematic trailblazers. These
brave men and women are
daring, bold and unafraid to
forge into the unknown, to do
everything it takes to tell their
stories, and to leave in their
wakes fascinating tales peppered
with colorful characters that
conquer our audiences year after
year.
Like the pioneers who banded
together to discover the Wild
West, independent cinema is a
collaborative process - from the
talented group of passionate
people who pour their sweatequity into creating the films, to
the crowd-funding movie-lovers
who help with financing and
finally to the appreciative audiences, who come out year after
year to applaud the final masterpiece.
Tallgrass Film Association
relies on the same collaborative
approach to create exceptional
shared experiences around the
international medium of film.
Cinema remains such an accessible art form and by combining
this medium with other artistic
expressions, we’ve had the opportunity to demonstrate how
when coupled together, great art
transcends mere entertainment,
to make us more engaged and
informed citizens of the world.
Cinema began as a collective
experience, but the advent of
technology has turned it into an
often-solitary activity. Communi-
ty-driven film festivals like Tallgrass are tasked with creating
unique and engaging cinematic
adventures for our audiences
that extend far beyond on-demand, streaming and the multiplex.
Some of this year’s partnerships included wonderful events
with the Wichita Symphony
Orchestra (FOLLOWING THE
NINTH), MTWichita (A SOUTH
PACIFIC celebration), Watermark Books (a screening of ERNEST & CELESTINE amongst the
books), Wichita Art Museum
(BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID), Project Nano Short
Filmmaking Lab with alumni
filmmaker Morgan Nichols, the
third annual Down to the Wire:
24 Hour Film Race with CreativeRush, a progressive screening of the movie WICHITA
(1955) and of course, Dudegrass
(THE BIG LEBOWSKI) at Northrock Lanes (to many, bowling is
an art.)
Tallgrass is committed to preserving the communal elements
of movie-going, whether our
audiences are watching films in
a theater, alfresco, a bookstore,
or a bowling alley. We invite you
to enjoy the 12th annual Tallgrass Film Festival together.
See you at the cinema,
Lela Meadow-Conner (Executive Director), Paul Witte
(Board President), the Staff and
Board of TFA
STAFF
Lela Meadow-Conner,
Executive Director
Gretchen Mitchell,
Co-Director of
Programming
Nick Pope, Co-Director
of Programming
Shan Jabara, Director
of Acquisitions
Tom Mittlestadt,
Event Designer
Thane Chastain,
Technical Director
Arietta Austin,
Hospitality Director
Francine Fairweather,
Box Office Director
Gay Quisenberry,
Volunteer Director
Brian Gray, Advancement Manager
Erin Patten,
Production Manager
Anne Bowman, Food &
Beverage Director
Mary Ann Hollander,
Event Coordinator
Danielle Werner, VIP
Lounge Concierge
Carole Jacobs, VIP
Logistics Manager
Amber Brown,
Production Assistant
Ashley Randall, Box
Office Coordinator
Joshua Ellis, Print Traffic
Coordinator
Hulda Bocchino,
Programming
Assistant
B.J. Love, Production
Design Team
Richard Bowman,
Production Design
Team
Blair Birdsong,
Hospitality Assistant
Ian Stewart,
Graphic Design
SPECIAL THANKS
Agile Ticketing Team
Arleigh Aldrich
Arctic Ice
Anne’s Minions
Sarah Bagby
Teddy Barlow
Eva Bergman-Larsson
Larry Bennetta
Kylie Brown
Joe Buell
Wayne Bryan
Barney Byard
Kerry Candaele
Angela Cassette
Cinespecialists
Christopher Clark
Photography
Brad and Edie Conner
Arvin Cruz
Patty Lane,
Graphics Associate
Mike Briley,
Staff Photographer
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
President: Paul Witte
Vice President:
Trudy Swint
Secretary:
Susan Bowers
Treasurer: Cindy Hand
Bonnie Bing
Emily Bonavia
Nick Bonavia
Steve Butcher
Lynda Carrier-Metz
Wade Davis
Jeff Deitchler
Kyle Filiatreault
Stephanie Galichia
Ryan Gates
Ruthie Gillespie
Floyd Gruver
Dick Honeyman
Boyd Howard
Nicole Howerton
Pam Irish
(Past President)
April Johnson
Ann Keefer
Jim Siebert
Kathy Siebert
Marcie Zwygart
PROGRAMMERS
Jeremy Bennett
Richard Davies
Jason Dilts
Tyler Emerson
Shannon Fitts
Vaughn Fry
Charity Hicks
John Jones
Art Kenyon
Sheila Mitchell
Teri Mott
Fletcher Powell
Tina Walterscheid
Debbie Deuser
Peter Exline
Eric Fisher Academy
Armin Gerhard
ICT Roller Girls
Wade Hampton
Marla Hayden
Hatman Jack's
Carol Hughes
Greg Hunt
Jacobs Lawn Care
Leif Jonker
Jack Kellogg
Paul Klusman
Laughing Feet
Performers
Rebecca Maholland
Jamil Malone,
Twitter Master
Patricia McDonnell
Tim McGill
Deyne Meadow
PRE-SCREENERS
Paulina Alcocer
Torin Andersen
Kathy Anderson
Patti Coleman
Leslie Foster
Brenda Knight
Matt Krehbiel
Heather Lassmann
Jason Ohman
Andre Seward
Erick Schlick
Marcia Scurfield
Del Torkelson
EMERGING
PROGRAMMER
APPRENTICES
Mariah Hall
(Andover Central)
Meg Jack (Wichita East)
Jackson Laurie
(Wichita East)
Satchell Owens
(Wichita East)
Blaise Webster (The
Independent School)
Patti Siering
Alice Ward
Bruce Ward
DECOR COMMITTEE
Anne Bowman
Taylor Garon
Mary Ann Hollander
Carole Jacobs
Jim and Stacy Mayou
Builder Bob McDowell
Tanya Merritt
Erin Patton
Will Pyles
Wyatt Sheeder
PROJECTIONISTS
Russ Autry
Jim Davis
Amy Delamaide
Vaughn Fry
Julie Linneman
Tommy Milligan
Clem Moreno
Fletcher Powell
Jake Treat
Chris Wren
VENUE MANAGERS
Jack Silvers (Orpheum)
Larry Bennett (Garvey)
Hugo Phan
(Scottish Rite)
Janet Davis
Marti Secondine
PROGRAM GUIDE
Rod Pocowatchit/
The Wichita Eagle
ASSISTANT VENUE
MANAGERS
Bryan Clark (Orpheum)
FIND US ONLINE
web:
tallgrassfilmfest.com
facebook:
facebook.com/
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twitter: twitter.com/
Tallgrass
instagram:
instagram.com/
tallgrassfilmfest
hashtags: #tallgrassfilm
#stubbornlyindependent
TALLGRASS PRESS
CORPS
Marie Carroll
Dwight Corrin
Arnold Graef
Steven Green
Kelsy Gossett
Toni Means
Neil Marcus
Win Oo
John Pic
Susan Richardson
Novelene Ross
Mittlestadt Props
and Design
Eric Mezdow-Moore
Brian Moore/House of
Schwan Graphics &
Design Dept.
Music Theatre Wichita
Morgan Nichols
Pepsico
Rod Pocowatchit
Wynn Ponder
Lonny Quattlebaum
Don Reinhold
Old Cowtown Museum
Ray’s Party Rental
Lesley Rogers
Bo Savage
Andre Seward
SIFF
Ashton Smith
Stephen C. Smith
The Stong Family
COVER ART
& 2014 FESTIVAL
ARTWORK
Howerton + White
Festival Founder
Timothy O. Gruver
Vagabond Café
Watermark Books
Wichita Art Museum
Wichita Bar Association
Wichita Symphony
Orchestra
James Woods
WSU Costume Shop
WSU Opera Dept.
X-clusive Events
And a special thanks
to all of the
businesses, galleries
and organizations who
allow TFA to hand out
information, posters
and fliers throughout
the year.
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GALA SCREENING EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT GALA - SPONSORED BY RICK & MONICA NUTT
RETURN OF THE REELS GALA - SPONSORED BY JACK DANIELS
Yojimbo (Yôjinbô)
Life Itself
Directed by Steve James
Documentary, 2014, 120m, USA
Special Guest: Producer Zak Piper
scheduled to attend
This recounts the surprising and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic/social commentator Roger Ebert — a
story that is by turns personal, wistful,
funny, painful, and transcendent. The
film explores the impact and legacy of
Ebert’s life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism and his nearly quarter-century run with Gene Siskel on their
review show, to becoming one of the
country's most influential cultural voices,
and finally to Ebert’s inspiring battles
with cancer and the resulting physical
disability — how he literally and symbolically put a new face on the disease and
continued to be a cultural force despite
it.
Playing with: The Gunfighter, d. Eric
Kissack (USA, 2014, 9m)
$25, includes screening and after-party
at Union Station with open bar, eats & live
music from The Cherokee Maidens
Wed. Oct. 15, 7:00 p.m.
at the Orpheum
STUBBORNLY INDEPENDENT GALA - SPONSORED BY VIMEO
Directed by Akiro Kurosawa
Starring Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno,
Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu
Yamada, Takashi Shimura
Feature, 1961, 110m, Japan
Special Guest: Film Historian and
Kurosawa Scholar Stephen Prince
scheduled to attend. Q&A moderated
by Flavorwire’s Jason Bailey.
Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a
rural town in 19th century Japan. After
learning from the innkeeper that the
town is divided between two gangsters,
he plays one side off against the other.
One of famed Japanese director Akira
Kurosawa's masterpiece films. Screening
on 35mm film. (Japanese with English
subtitles)
Playing with: Hide & Seek, d. Kayoko
Asakura (Japan, 2013, 11m)
$25, includes both screenings and after
party at Old Cowtown with open bar, eats
from Artisan Catering and Noodles &
Company, & live music from The Phantom
Plainsmen
Fri. Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
at the Orpheum
A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno
di dollari)
Directed by Sergio Leone
Starring Clint Eastwood, Glan Maria
Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, 1964, 99m, Italy/Spain/West Germany
An anonymous, deadly man rides into
a town torn by war between two factions. He schemes to play the two sides
off each other, getting rich in the bargain. This is the first film in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy.”
Casino
Fri. Oct. 17, 11:59 p.m. at Orpheum
$10 GA tickets also available
CLOSING NIGHT GALA - SPONSORED BY STEVE ANDERSON
Before I Disappear
The Living
back as her mother continuously expresses her disapproval. Meanwhile, Molly’s
Directed by Jack Bryan
brother gets in way over his head as he
Starring Fran Krans, Jocelin Donahue,
tries to take revenge on Teddy.
Kenny Wormaid, Chris Mulkey, Joelle
Playing with: Copy Cat, d. Shane KonCarter, 2014, 89m, USA
icki (USA/Kansas, 2014, 6m, 2014 Down
Special Guests: Director Jack Bryan to the Wire Film Race winner)
and producers John Snyder and Laura
DuBois scheduled to attend.
at Emprise Bank Parking Garage with
After an alcohol-induced blacked-out
open bar, eats from Rain Cafe & Lounge &
night of drinking, Teddy discovers he has live entertainment from DJ Carbon
severely beaten his wife, Molly. As he
attempts to redeem himself, she must
Rite
decide whether or not she will take him
Directed by Shawn Christensen
Starring Shawn Christensen, Fatima
Ptacek, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley, Ron
Perlman, Richard Schiff, 2013, 93m, USA
Special Guest: Editor Andrew Napier Scheduled to Attend
Based on the 2013 Academy Awardwinning short “Curfew.” At the lowest
point of his life, Richie gets a call from
his estranged sister asking him to look
after his 11-year old niece, Sophia, for a
few hours. Richie cancels his ominous
plans, and picks Sophia up from school.
He does his best to juggle her intense
schedule with his equally intense (but
much messier) commitments. It seems
more like she’s the one looking after him
than the other way around. As he tries
hard to be the grownup, he realizes she
just might be the spark he needs to
bring him back from the edge.
Playing with: Grandma’s Not A Toaster, d. Andrew Napier (USA, 2013, 10m)
at Block1 Parking Garage with open bar,
eats from Bob & Luigi’s and live entertainment from DJs Ghouled and Deathblack
Flowers.
Sun. Oct. 19, 7:00 p.m.
at the Orpheum
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U.S. NARRATIVE FEATURES IN COMPETITION
A is For Alex (SI Nominee)
Child of God
The David Dance
Five Star (SI Nominee)
Directed by Alex Orr
Starring Alex Orr, Katie Rowlett, Daniel
L. Kelly, 2014, 74m, USA
Director/Writer/Actor Alex Orr
scheduled to attend
Alex is an inventor about to face his
greatest challenge: Fatherhood. Striken
by anxiety and struggling to keep his
pregnant wife happy, Alex works to save
the world and become a worthy father
and husband. Shot throughout the 9
months before their child was born, husband and wife team Katie and Alex Orr
turn the cameras on themselves and end
up with a modern look at becoming a
parent and mixing real life with fiction.
Rite
Directed by James Franco
Starring Scott Haze, James Franco, Jim
Parrack, Tim Blake Nelson, 2013, 104m,
USA
Set in mountainous Sevier County,
Tenn., in the 1960s, this tells the story of
Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent
man whom the narrator describes as “a
child of God much like yourself, perhaps.”
Ballard’s life is a disastrous attempt to
exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and a home and
with few other ties, Ballard descends
literally and figuratively to the level of a
cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime
and degradation. Based on Cormac
McCarthy's book of the same name.
Playing with: Bloodhounds, d. Alan
Scott Neal (USA, 2014, 15m)
Directed by Aprill Winney
Starring Don Scime, Guy Adkins, Antoinette LaVecchia, Jordan Baker, 2014,
108m, USA
Producer/Writer/Cast Don Scime
David is soft spoken, shy and unsure of
himself. However, as host of the local
radio show “Gay Talk” in Buffalo, New
York, he’s poised and witty. His sister,
Kate, is a thrice divorced banker. Though
successful, the siblings suffer from a vast
sense of inadequacy.
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Sat. Oct. 18, noon at Bank of America
Sun. Oct. 19, 4:00 p.m. at the Garvey
Mediterranean
Directed by Keith Miller
Starring James ‘Primo’ Grant, John Diaz,
Wanda Nobles Colon, Jasmine Burgos,
2014, 83m, USA
Actor John Diaz scheduled to attend.
After John’s absent father is struck by a
stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself
to verse the young boy in the code of the
streets — one founded on respect and
upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods
since the age of 12 — both in the film and
in reality — the streets of Brooklyn are all
Primo has ever known. While John questions whether or not to enter into this life,
Primo must decide whether to leave it all
behind as he vows to become a better
husband and father.
Sun. Oct. 19, 3:45 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Gone Doggy Gone
Half Brother (SI Nominee)
Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter
The Ladies of the House
Directed by Kasi Brown and Brandon
Walter
Starring Kasi Brown, Brandon Walter,
Kate Connor, 2014, 89m, USA
Co-Director/Actor Kasi Brown
This comedy is about a couple working
the grind in L.A. who have little time for
each other, and what free time they have
they spend doting on their dog ... until it
gets kidnapped.
Playing with: The Struggle of Libations, d. Erin Mullally (Ireland, 2014, 8m)
by Lucinda’s
Thur. Oct. 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Orpheum
Directed by Anthony Grippa
Starring Elizabeth Masucci, Casey Biggs,
Christina Haag, Jenny Dare Paulin, Stephen Plunkett, 2014, 75m, USA
Director Anthony Grippa scheduled
to attend.
When his longtime girlfriend breaks up
with him, 30 year-old Michael suddenly
finds himself homeless. With nowhere
else to go, he spends the weekend at his
father and stepmother’s house, only to
find that they’re embroiled in a bitter
divorce. As he gets caught in the middle
of their angry disputes, Michael struggles
to come to terms with his place in his
dysfunctional family.
Orpheum
Directed by David Zellner
Starring Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, 2014, 105m, USA
A lonely Japanese woman becomes
convinced that a satchel of money buried
and lost in a fictional film, is in fact, real.
With a crudely drawn treasure map and
limited preparation, she escapes her
structured life in Tokyo and embarks on a
foolhardy quest across the frozen tundra
of Minnesota in search of her mythical
fortune.
Fri. Oct. 17, noon at Scottish Rite - $5
Matinee
Rite
Directed by John Stuart Wildman
Starring Farah White, Melodie Sisk,
Brina Palencia, Belladonna, Gabriel Horn,
2014, 93m, USA
Director John Wildman scheduled to
attend.
This follows the events surrounding a
birthday outing with two brothers and a
friend that turns into a horrific fight for
survival after they become trapped in a
house with a family of malevolent women
who enjoy a pin-up lifestyle and a special
diet.
Thur. Oct. 16, 9:45 p.m. at the
Orpheum
Orpheum
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Love Land
Man From Reno (SI Nominee)
Pretty Rosebud (SI Nominee)
Sun Belt Express
Directed by Joshua Tate
Starring Monica Gaseor, Michael Iovine,
Johnny Walter, Juli Erickson, 2014, 101m,
USA
Director Joshua Tate scheduled to
attend.
24-year-old Ivy sterilizes needles at a
tattoo parlor in a small East Texas town.
She has an intellectual disability, but she
hides her label with grace. What she
doesn’t hide is the crush she has on Oscar,
a 16-year-old apprentice tattoo artist who
works at the same parlor. When Ivy’s
sister wants to place her in an institution,
Ivy must choose how far she will go in
order to reunite with her dream man.
America
Directed by David Boyle
Starring Ayako Fujitani, Pepe Serna,
Kazuki Kitamura, 2014, 111m, USA
In a small town, Sheriff Paul Del Moral
is driving home through the fog when he
accidentally strikes a lone Japanese man.
At the same time, Japanese mystery author Aki Akahori takes a trip to San Francisco in order to escape the press tour for
her latest book. Feeling lonely, she begins
a romantic affair with a mysterious Japanese traveler. (English and Japanese with
English subtitles)
Rite
Directed by Oscar Torre
Starring Chuti Tiu, Kipp Shiotani, Dana
Lee, Bel Hernandez, 2014, 93m, USA
Writer/actor Chuti Tiu scheduled to
attend.
Everyone thinks Cissy has the perfect
life – except Cissy. Striving to be the
“good girl,” at home and at work has left
her on the verge of a breakdown. A childless marriage to a handsome architect has
gone stale, while questions about babies
pepper every well-meaning conversation
with family and friends. The cultural
abyss dividing Cissy and her traditional
Asian parents drives her to a desperate
act of survival, defying societal taboos.
Rite
Directed by Evan Buxbaum
Starring Stephen Lang, Rachael Harris,
Tate Donovan, 2014, 91m, USA
Co-writer/Actor/Producer Chance
Mullen scheduled to attend (KS Filmmaker)
Ethics professor Allen King has just
been fired for plagiarizing a student’s
work. Living in sunny Arizona, he now
shuttles immigrants across the Mexican
border in the trunk of his beat-up Volvo
for cash. But it’s only a matter of time
before Allen’s life devolves into chaos as
his pregnant Mexican girlfriend and his
teenage daughter land in his car during
an illegal run across the border.
Rite
WORLD NARRATIVE FEATURES IN COMPETITION
The Dark Valley (Das finstere Tal)
Directed by Andreas Prochaska,
Starring Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti,
2014, 114m, Austria/Germany
It is the late 19th Century, a stranger
arrives in a remote community of alpine
farmers. But this reticent observer, who
finds accommodation with the widow
Gader and young Luzi, finds himself confronted with the deep distrust of a closeknit community. When the youngest son
of a wealthy farmer has a fatal accident,
the old order in the valley begins to unravel. (German with English subtitles)
Casino
- $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30 a.m. at the Orpheum
Longwave (Les grandes ondes à
l'ouest)
Directed by Lionel Baler
Starring Valéie Donaelli, Michel Vuillermoz, Patrick Lapp, Francisco Belard, 2013,
85m, Switzerland/France/Portugal
April 1974, Switzerland. The Federal
Councellor, annoyed by the anti-establishment tone of the French-speaking
Swiss radio channel, imposes “safer”
subjects on Philippe de Roulet, the program director. To please him, de Roulet
sends a team to Portugal to report on the
impact of Swiss aid to the country.
(French with English subtitles)
Playing with: Democracy (Democracia), d. Borja Cobeaga (Spain, 2013, 10m)
Sat. Oct. 18, 7:15 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Metro Manila
Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours)
Directed by Sean Ellis
Starring Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla,
Althea Vega, 2013, 115m, UK/Philippines
Seeking a brighter future in Manila,
Oscar Ramirez and his family flee their
impoverished life in the rice fields of the
Philippines. But the sweltering capital’s
intensity quickly overwhelms them, and
they fall prey to hardened locals. Oscar
catches a lucky break when he’s offered
steady work for an armored truck company. Soon, though, the reality of his work’s
mortality rate force Oscar to confront the
perils he faces in his new job and life.
(Tagalog with English subtitles)
Thur. Oct. 16, 10:30 a.m. at Scottish
Rite - $5 Matinee
Fri. Oct. 17, 4:45 p.m. at WSU Shift
Space - $5 Matinee
Directed by Michel Gondry
Starring Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou,
Gad Elmaleh, 2013, 94m, France/Belgium
Set in Paris, wealthy bachelor Colin
spends his time developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano). When
Colin learns that his best friend has a new
American girlfriend, our hero attends a
friend’s party in hopes of falling in love
himself. He soon meets Chloe and plunges headfirst into a romance. Their whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual
illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to
grow in her lungs. So Colin sets out to
save her. (French with English subtitles)
Mediterranean
Sun. Oct. 19, 2:00 p.m. at the Wichita
Art Museum
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U.S. DOCUMENTARIES
The Salvation
Traitors
Wetlands
Art and Craft
Directed by Kristian Levring
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green,
2014, 89m, Denmark/UK/South Africa
In 1870s America, a peaceful DanishAmerican settler kills his family’s murderer, which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow
townspeople then betray him, forcing him
to hunt down the outlaws alone. This
UK/Danish/South African production is a
faithful homage to the American Western.
(English and Danish with English subtitles)
Casino
Fri. Oct. 17, 11:00 a.m. at the
Orpheum - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct. 19, 11:30 a.m. at Bank of
America
Directed by Sean Gullette
Starring Chaimae Ben Acha, Soufia
Issami, 83m, Morocco
Malika is the leader of the all-female
punk rock band Traitors, with a strong
vision of the world, her hometown of
Tangier, and her place in it. When she
needs money to save her family from
eviction, and to realize her dreams for the
band, Malika agrees to a fast cash dangerous proposition. (Arabic and French with
English subtitles)
Playing with: Claire, d. Cate Smierciak
(Germany, 2014, 14m)
Sponsored by Subaru of Wichita
Directed by David Wnendt
Starring Carla Juri, Christoph Letowski,
Marlen Kruse, 2013, 105m, Germany
The eccentric 18 year-old Helen narrates her life, including tales about her
preferred sexual practices that involve
vegetables, her attitude towards hygiene,
drugs, her best friend Corinna and her
challenging childhood. The story takes
place in a hospital where she is treated
because of an anal fissure. (German with
English subtitles)
Playing with: Meet My Rapist, d. Jessie Kahnweiler (USA, 2013, 7m)
Sat. Oct. 18, 11:59 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Directed by Sam Cullman, Jennifer
Grausman, Mark Becker, 2014, 89m, USA
Mark Landis has been called one of the
most prolific art forgers in US history. His
impressive body of work covers a wide
range of painting styles. When his decades-long ruse is finally exposed, Landis
must confront the legacy of his 30-year
con.
Playing with: Tinker, d. Lou Ward (USA,
2014, 5m)
by Lucinda's
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:00 a.m. at Wichita
Center for the Arts - Free to the general public
Sun. Oct 19, noon at the Wichita Art
Musem
Brave New Wild
Fight Church
The Great Invisible
Growing Cities
Directed by Oakley Anderson-Moore,
2014, 76m, USA
Director Oakley Anderson-Moore
scheduled to attend
Through a mishmash of campfire stories with climbing pioneers, archival
footage and cartoons, this film explores
an answer to “Why climb when there's
nothing to gain — and everything to lose?”
Nature Center
Sponsored on Women Directors sponsored by Lucinda’s
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:15 a.m. at WSU Shiftspace - $5 matinee GA; This film is also
Directed by Daniel Junge and Bryan
Storkel, 2014, 84m, USA
Co-Director Bryan Storkel scheduled to attend.
This examines the confluence of Christianity and mixed martial arts, including
ministries that train fighters. The film
follows several pastors and popular fighters in their quest to reconcile their faith
with a sport that many consider violent
and barbaric. Faith is tried and questions
are raised. Can you really love your
neighbor as yourself and then punch him
in the face?
Rite - $5 Matinee
Directed by Margaret Brown, 2014, 92m,
USA
Peabody Award-winning documentarian Margaret Brown travels to small
towns and major cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of
the Deepwater Horizon explosion on the
people of the region. Eyewitnesses reconstruct the oil spill, creating a vivid picture
of the accident and its consequences.
Nature Center
by Lucinda's
Thur. Oct. 16, 5:00 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Fri. Oct. 17, 9:45 a.m. at the Garvey
Forum - $5 Matinee
Directed by Dan Susman and Andrew
Monbouquette, 2013, 97m, USA
Co-Producer Brent Lubbert Scheduled to Attend.
Filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew
Monbouquette take a road trip and meet
the men and women who are challenging
the way this country grows and distributes its food, one vacant city lot, rooftop
garden and backyard chicken coop at a
time. Join them as they discover that
good food isn't the only crop these urban
visionaries are harvesting.
Nature Center
Art Museum
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Keep On Keepin’ On
The Kill Team
The Life and Mind of Mark
DeFriest
Directed by Dan Krauss, 2013, 79m, USA
Directed by Greg Olliver, 2014, 95m,
USA
A look at the life and career of blues
legend Johnny Winter, featuring Edgar
Winter, James Cotton, Billy Gibbons,
Warren Haynes, Luther Nallie, Tommy
Shannon, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks
and more.
Playing with: Lomax, d. Jesse Kreitzer
(USA, 2013, 12m)
Sponsored by Subaru of Wichita with
additional support from Wichita Blues
Society
Rite - $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 4:45 p.m.
at the Orpheum
Directed by Al Hicks, 2014, 84m, USA
Shot over the course of five years by
first time filmmaker Al Hicks, this film
depicts the remarkable story of
93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A
living monument to the Golden Era of
Jazz, Terry is among the few performers
ever to have played in both Count Basie
and Duke Ellington’s bands. In the 1960s,
he broke the color barrier as the first
African-American staff musician at NBC
on “The Tonight Show.” The film highlights his friendship with the gifted Justin
Kauflin, a blind, 23-year-old piano prodigy who suffers from debilitating stage
fright. These two friends confront the
toughest challenges of their lives.
Rite
Private Adam Winfield was a
21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when
he attempted to alert the military about
heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield's pleas went unheeded. Left on his own and with threats
to his life, Private Winfield was forced to
make a split-second decision that would
change his life forever.
Playing with: Little Shadow, d. Toby
Fell-Holden (USA, 2013, 18m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:15 p.m. WSU Shiftspace - $5 matinee GA; This film is also
Rite
Directed by Gabriel London, 2014, 102m,
USA
Producer Charlie Sadoff scheduled
to attend
At 19, Mark DeFriest was sent to prison
for “stealing” tools that were allegedly
willed to him by his father. For 30 years,
and after 13 breakout attempts, Mark sat
in an isolated cell with little light and no
human contact. As his health reached a
critical point, the doctor who incarcerated him re-emerges with a startling admission about his original diagnosis that
could change Mark's life forever.
- $5 Matinee
Forum
Limited Partnership
Little Hope Was Arson
Mad As Hell
Oil & Water
Directed by Thomas G. Miller, 2014,
74m, USA
Subject Clela Rorex scheduled to
attend.
This is the story of Filipino-American
Richard Adams and Australian Tony Sullivan who filed the first federal lawsuit
seeking equal treatment for a same-sex
marriage in U.S. history.
Playing with: My Guide, d. Barnabas
Toth (Hungary, 2013, 13m)
Forum - $5 matinee GA; This film is
also a Free Friday Film Selection and
admission is complimentary for students/
teachers/seniors 65+ with valid ID
Forum
Directed by Theo Love, 2013, 71m, USA
Director Theo Love scheduled to
attend.
January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible
Belt, 10 churches burn to the ground in
just over a month igniting the largest
criminal investigation in East Texas history. No stone is left unturned and even
Satan himself is considered a suspect in
this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Families
are torn apart and communities of faith
struggle with forgiveness and justice in
this incredible true story.
Forum - $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 2:30 p.m. at Garvey
Forum
Directed by Andrew Napier, 2014, 80m,
USA (U.S. festival premiere)
Director/Producer Andrew Napier
This follows Cenk Uygur’s transformation from unknown talk show host to
internet sensation with his online news
show “The Young Turks.” But when he
lands a prime spot on MSNBC, his uncensored brand of journalism is compromised and he becomes the nexus in the
battle between new and old media.
Playing with: The Missing Scarf, d.
Eoin Duffy (Ireland, 2013, 7m)
Rite
Directed by Alan Robert Davis, 2014,
75m, USA
This follows a Cajun family in the years
following the BP oil spill. Despite coming
close to losing their shrimp-processing
business, they remained in support of the
oil and gas industry, which has been a
part of Cajun culture over its 100-year
history. But as compounding factors production threaten the their livelihood, they
are forced to deal with harsh realities.
Playing with: Isle de Jean Charles, d.
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (USA, 2014, 10m)
Nature Center
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:15 p.m. at Wichita
Center for the Arts - Free to the public
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The Overnighters
Directed by Jesse Moss, 2014, 90m, USA
This is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of
Williston, N.D. With the town lacking the
infrastructure to house the overflow of
migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial “overnighters” program, allowing
down-and-out workers a place to sleep at
the church. His well-meaning project
gradually runs into resistance with his
community, forcing him to make a decision that leads to profound consequences.
Playing with: Monotony, d. Joanne
Postlewaite (UK, 2013, 3m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:00 a.m. at Scottish
Rite - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct 19, 2:00 p.m. at the Garvey
Forum
Queens & Cowboys: A Straight
Year on the Gay Rodeo
Directed by Matt Livadary, 2014, 92m,
USA
This chronicles a complete season of
the International Gay Rodeo Association
(IGRA). Roping and riding across North
America, the IGRA’s courageous cowboys
and cowgirls brave challenges both in and
out of the arena on their quest to qualify
for the World Finals. Along the way,
they’ll bust every stereotype in the book.
Playing with: Hoover Road, d. Jonathan Pope Evans (USA/Kansas, 2014,
16m)
Mediterranean
Sun. Oct 19, 9:00 a.m. at the Garvey
Mediterranean
U.S. DOCUMENTARIES, CONT.
Self Medicated: A Film About Art
Silenced
Directed by Ethan H. Minsker, 2014,
98m, USA
Director Ethan Minsker scheduled to
attend.
The Antagonist Movement was formed
by a group of unknown artists in 2000 in
bars and clubs of the Lower East Side,
and promoted works by up-and-coming
talent. Over the next 13 years, the movement expanded from its base in New York
to show in cities around the world. This
film documents the history of the movement and the artists involved.
public
Art Museum
Directed by James Spione, 2014, 104m,
USA
Director James Spione scheduled to
attend.
Behind world-changing headlines are
those who risk everything to speak the
truth to power. From Academy Awardnominated and Tallgrass alumni director
James Spione (“Incident in New Baghdad”) we see what it means to challenge
unethical behavior in the corridors of
power and influence, and gain access to
the lives of three of the world’s most
important government whistleblowers
Sat. Oct. 18, 2:30 p.m. at Bank of
America
Rite
WORLD DOCUMENTARY FEATURES IN COMPETITION
Stray Dog
A Life in Dirty Movies
Light Fly, Fly High
The Supreme Price
Directed by Debra Granik, 2014, 98m,
USA
Ron “Stray Dog” Hall lives in Southern
Missouri where he owns and operates an
RV Park. After seven years of living with
four small dogs as his only companions,
he is adjusting to life with his wife, newly
arrived from Mexico. Stray Dog seeks to
strike a balance between his commitment
to his family, neighbors, biker brotherhood, and fellow veterans. As part of the
legacy of fighting in the Vietnam War, he
wrestles with the everlasting puzzle of
conscience, remorse and forgiveness.
by Lucinda's
- $5 Matinee
Directed by Wiktor Ericsson, 2013, 80m,
Sweden
Subject Peggy Steffans Sarno
This is a love story about legendary
sexploitation director Joe Sarno, “The
Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street,” and his
loyal wife and collaborator Peggy — their
place in sex film history, life between
New York and Sweden, and their struggle
to make one last erotic film.
Playing with: Directors on Directing,
Mediterranean
America
Directed by Beth Hofseth, Susan Ostigaard, 2013, 80m, Norway/India
As a young Indian girl born outside the
caste system, Thulasi is trying to box her
way out of poverty. In many ways, her life
is pre-determined. She is expected to get
married and accept her place at the very
bottom of the ladder. But Thulasi dreams
of a different life. (In Tamil with English
subtitles)
Playing with: Nesma’s Birds (Iraq,
by Lucinda's
Mediterranean - $5 matinee GA; This
film is also a Free Friday Film Selection
and admission is complimentary for students/teachers/seniors 65+ with valid ID
Directed by Joanna Lipper, 2014, 75m,
USA/Nigeria
Following the annulment of her father's
victory in Nigeria's Presidential Election
and her mother's assassination by agents
of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola
faces the challenge of transforming a
corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria's most
marginalized population: Women.
Playing with: Not Anymore: A Story
of Revolution, d. Matthew VanDyke
(USA, 2013, 15m)
by Lucinda's
public
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Stubbornly Independent Gala celebrates fest’s roots
F
or the third year, the Tallgrass Film Festival features
the Jake Euker Stubbornly
Independent Gala – as
celebration of independent cinema and an homage to the independent filmmakers who make
film festivals possible. Tallgrass
congratulates all of the nominated films, which will screen
during the festival, and be followed by a Q&A with a filmmaker.
Out of 117 eligible films - US
narrative feature films made for
under $750,000 with no traditional theatrical distribution - six
were selected as Stubbornly
Independent nominees and
judged by the first-ever industry
jury, comprised of Andrea Allen
(Vimeo,) Brian Flanagan (Roadside Attractions) Jenny Jacobi
(Drafthouse Media) and Scott
Mansfield (Monterey Media). All
jurors are scheduled to attend
the festival.
In addition to the gala spotlight, the winning film and filmmakers receive a $2,500 cash
prize from Vimeo, a one-night
theater rental from AMC Theatres, and a one-of-a-kind Tallgrass
Tap Handle Award from VanChase Studios.
The winning film, as selected
by this year’s jury, is THE LIVING, from Director Jack Bryan.
Bryan will attend the festival
along with the film’s producers,
Laura DuBois and John Snyder.
THE LIVING screens at the Stubbornly Independent Gala on
Saturday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 pm at
the Scottish Rite Theatre and is
followed by an after-party at the
Emprise Bank Parking Garage
with open bar, eats and live
music from DJ Carbon. Tickets
are $25.
“In independent film, we sacrifice budgets, and in return, we
are free to serve the story exclusively. Being stubbornly independent means seeing this as an
opportunity and a responsibility.
It means we will shoot films with
whatever tools we can get our
hands on and we will make them
unforgettable.”
— Jack Bryan, Director, THE
LIVING
Jury Statement
We, the members of the Stubbornly Independent Film Jury,
have chosen THE LIVING as the
winner of the 2014 Stubbornly
Independent Award as presented
by the Tallgrass International
Film Festival. While each of the
contenders met the award criteria in different ways, we found
that this film most successfully
represents independent filmmaking at its core: smart,
thought provoking, and well
made despite (or perhaps because of) budgetary constraints.
THE LIVING weaves a thoroughly engrossing story with
beautiful cinematography, solid
direction, and strong perform-
ances that never pander, yet
never fail to engage. The film
conveys a thematic universality
applicable to anyone who has
ever felt trapped within the confines of a fate seemingly set in
motion by one irreversible action, and yet the plot still unfolds
in surprising and unpredictable
ways.
We found THE LIVING a joy to
watch, and it is our pleasure to
“The Living"
select it as our winner.
RICK & MONICA
NUTT
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SPECIAL INTEREST FILM COLLECTIONS
WESTERNS
(Sponsored by Dodge City CVB
& Boothill Casino)
The Dark Valley
Drunker than a Skunk (short)
The Gunfighter (short)
The Salvation
A Fistful of Dollars
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
BIG READ
(Fri. Oct. 17, Free Screenings
at the Wichita Public Library –
Central, Media Sponsor: KMUW)
Satan Met a Lady
HORROR/THRILLER/MIDNIGHT
The Ladies of the House (with
Director John Wildman)
NOTABLE FILM
PROGRAMS
Child of God
Wetlands
KANSAS CONNECTIONS
The Bona Fide (shorts program)
Down to the Wire Showcase
(with local filmmakers)
Gone Doggy Gone (with Director Kasi Brown)
Home on the Range: featurette
program (with Director Ed
Shank)
Timothy Gruver Spotlight on
Kansas Filmmakers (sponsored
by Mindfire Academy)
VISUAL ARTS
A Life in Dirty Movies (with
subject Peggy Steffans Sarno)
Art and Craft
Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage
Bruce Conner: Crossroads &
Experimental Shorts
Self Medicated: A Film about
The Brio: animated shorts
collection
SPORTS
Brave New Wild
Fight Church
Light Fly, Fly High
Running Blind (short)
ASIAN INFLUENCE
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Man from Reno (with Assoc.
Producer Mye Hoang)
Pretty Rosebud (with star
25, 1946. Playing with new experimental shorts.
Sat., Oct. 18, 12:00 pm, Orpheum
Oil & Water Fri., Oct. 17, 12:15 Oct. 19, 4:00 pm, Garvey MediterThe Supreme Price, 2:15
pm, Center for the Arts; Sat. Oct.
ranean
Limited Partnership with
18, 12:15 pm, Garvey MediterraArt, 4:15 pm
nean
Spotlight on Bruce Conner
Recognized as one of the leaders of New American Cinema in
the 1960’s, Bruce Conner transformed the discards of pop culture - from B-movie clips to
newsreel and television footage into an art form that paved the
way to the music video. Conner’s
films, as with his art, are politically charged, humorous, melancholic, and unsettlingly beautiful. In conjunction with Bruce
Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints
(Sept. 5- Dec. 14, Ulrich Museum
of Art, Wichita State University.)
The Art of the Montage: A
retrospective shorts program
featuring a selection of Conner’s
films made over a 50-year period
from 1958-2008.
Fri., Oct. 17, 2:15 pm, WSU
Shiftspace
Sat., Oct. 18, 4:30 pm, WSU
Shiftspace
Crossroads & Experimental
Shorts: A retrospective look at
Bruce Conner’s landmark 35mm
film (featuring a brand new,
restored 35mm, print) in which
he combined repeated slowmotion images from National
Archives footage of the first
underwater hydrogen bomb test
conducted on Bikini Atoll on July
Grasscendo
Greengrass
This selection of environmentally-focused films is sponsored
by PRo Kansas and The Great
Plains Nature Center.
Brave New Wild Fri. Oct. 17,
10:15 am, WSU Shiftspace
The Great Invisible Thurs.
Oct. 16, 5:00 pm, Orpheum
Growing Cities with Co-Producer Brent Lubbert, Sat. Oct.
18, 1:15 pm, Wichita Art Museum
This film will also screen at a
private showing for USD 259
High School Students at East High
School
Home on the Range: Kansas
Documentary Program: This
featurette program showcases
two films that focus on cattle
ranching and wheat harvesting
in Kansas including Cowboys
(Director Ed Shank) and Great
American Wheat Harvest (Director Conrad Weaver.) Filmmakers will attend. Thurs., Oct.
16, 11:45 AM, Historical Museum
This program of films with
music-themes is sponsored by
Subaru of Wichita.
Thurs., Oct. 16, 1:15 pm, Scottish
Rite; Sat. Oct. 18, 4:45 pm, Orpheum
Keep On Keepin’ On, Sat.
Oct. 18, 1:30 pm, Scottish Rite
Traitors Fri. Oct. 17, 7:45 pm,
Scottish Rite
LGBTQ Films
This group of LGBTQ-themed
films is sponsored by Liberty
Press.
The David Dance with Writer/Actor Don Scime, Sat. Oct. 18,
Chuti Tiu)
Yojimbo
Metro Manilla
CHURCH DIALOGUE
Fight Church (with Director
Bryan Storkel)
Little Hope was Arson (with
Director Theo Love)
The Overnighters
IMMIGRATION ISSUES
Limited Partnership (with
subject Clela Rorex)
WOMEN’S STUDIES
The Battle: A Matter of Conflict (featurettes program)
Light Fly, Fly High
Pretty Sosebud (with star Chuti Tiu)
Subject Clela Rorex, Fri. Oct. 17,
2:15 pm, Garvey Forum; Sat. Oct.
18, 4:45 pm, Garvey Forum
Queens & Cowboys: A
Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo Sat, Oct. 18, 2:15 pm, Garvey Mediterranean, Sun. Oct. 19,
9:00 am, Garvey Mediterranean
Free Friday Films
These educational film selections are offered free of charge
to students/teachers and seniors
65+ with valid ID, on Friday,
October 17th only. This program
is sponsored by Prairie Fire Coffee Roasters.
The Battle: A Matter of Conflict (Featurette Program) 2:15
pm at Scottish Rite
Brave New Wild, 10:15 am at
WSU Shift Space
The Kill Team, 12:15 pm at
WSU Shift Space
Limited Partnership, 2:15 pm
at Garvey Forum
Light Fly, Fly High, 3:00 pm at
These educational films are
offered free of charge to the
public at the Wichita Center for
the Arts:
Art & Craft, 10:00 am
Oil & Water, 12:15
The Supreme Price
CASUALTIES OF CONFLICT
& OPRESSION
The Burden: Wounds of Conflict (shorts program)
The Kill Team
Light Fly, Fly High
Silenced (with Director James
Spione)
The Supreme Price
FREE SCREENINGS AT
WICHITA CENTER FOR THE
ARTS
(Friday, Oct. 17)
Art and Craft
Oil & Water
The Supreme Price
Spotlight on Women
Directors
Art & Craft (Co-Directed by
Jennifer Grausman), Fri., Oct.
17, 10:00 am, Center for the Arts,
Sun. Oct. 19, 12:00 pm, Wichita
Art Museum
Brave New World (Directed
by Oakley Anderson-Moore) Fri.,
Oct. 17, 10:15 am, Shift Space
The David Dance (Directed
by Aprill Winney) Sat. Oct. 18,
Oct. 19, 4:00 pm, Garvey Mediterranean
The Great Invisible (Directed
by Margaret Brown) Thurs., Oct.
16, 5:00 pm, Orpheum
Gone Doggy Gone (Directed
by Kasi Brown. Brown will attend screening.) Thurs., Oct. 17,
7:00 pm, Orpheum
Light Fly, Fly High (Directed
by Beathe Hoffseth, Susan Ostigaard) Fri. Oct. 18, 3:00 pm,
Stray Dog (Directed by the
Academy-Award nominated
Debra Granik) Fri. Oct. 18, 4:30
pm, Scottish Rite
The Supreme Price (Directed
by Joanna Lipper) Fri. Oct. 18,
2:15 pm, Center for the Arts
CONT. ON PAGE 19
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Purchase your 5-day, all-access
VIP TALLPass ($195) for the best
deal West of the Mississippi.
You’ll have access to over 200
of the best independent films
from around the world and
Tallgrass will wine, dine
and entertain you while
you mingle with visiting
filmmakers, festival
sponsors and Wichita
tastemakers.
The TALLPass admits
the bearer access to all GA
Films, all Gala Films and
After-Parties, all Filmmaker Labs and the following VIP-only events (one
guest/per pass) :
■ Thursday, October 16:
5:00 - 6:30 pm: Go Wichita VIP Shindig at Penthouse at Mayflower Plaza
Join festival sponsors and
VIPs to toast this year's visiting filmmakers and welcome
them to Wichita at one of the
city's newest rooftop venues.
Drinks, eats from Chapada
Chophouse & Churrascaria &
live music by the Jim Vegas
Band. (209 E. William)
■ Friday, October 18:
5:00 - 6:30 pm: Tallgrass
Brewing Co. Shindig at The
Great Plains Transportation
Museum
Gather above Douglas Ave. at the
Great Plains Transportation Museum for a
party on the tracks. Drinks, eats from Olive
Tree Catering & live music by Aaron Lee
Martin. (700 E. Douglas)
■ Sunday, October 19:
10:00 am - noon: Firkin Filmmaker
Brunch at The Monarch, Presented by
Gavin Peters Photography
The weekend’s not over yet - time for a
little hair of the dog. Join us for a delicious
brunch at The Monarch Gastropub and a
specialty Firkin Keg from Tallgrass Brewing
Company. (579 W. Douglas)
Consolidated Equities Trust VIP
Lounge
VIP lounge schedule
(subject to change)
Thank you to all of the wonderful vendors
who’ve contributed to our VIP experience.
Thursday, Oct. 16
(9:00 am - 5:00 pm)
“Get the Heck into Dodge” with Dodge
City Convention and Visitor’s Bureau serving sarsaparilla all-day.9:00 am: Breakfast
by Cow and Sow Deli
11:00 am: Lunch by Douglas Avenue
Chop Shop
11:00 am: Music Styling’s of DJ Skratch
Beer Store
11:00 am-5 pm: Eric Fisher Academy
Bend Yoga session
Bend Yoga session
Anna Murdock’s
by Tracy and Curtis of The Renfro Studio
4:00 pm - Bloom Wellness Stretch and
Bend Yoga session
Friday, Oct. 17
Pass? Stop in at the Consolidated Equities
Trust VIP Lounge at Candela at The Lux
and relax and recharge between movies.
Serving breakfast, lunch, snacks and happy
hours daily, plus pampering amenities including massage, hair styling, makeup application, yoga and live entertainment.
(Thurs-Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Sun noon
-5:00 pm.)
Stretch and Bend Yoga: Stay limber &
rejuvenated between movies with our 10
minute stretch-and-bend mini-yoga sessions
led by certified yoga instructor Jessica St.
Clair-Stong of Bloom Wellness. Suitable for
all levels. Mats and blocks provided. (See
schedule)
Recycling sponsored by PRo Kansas
(9:00 am-5:00 pm)
Hill Casino
9:00 am: Breakfast by Jimmie’s Diner
11:00 am: Lunch by NuWay and Larkspur
11:00 am: Music Styling’s of DJ Carbon
Beer Store
11:00 am: Irvin Jacks Mens Barber Spa
Bend Yoga Session
Bend Yoga session
Public Oldtown
by Emily Strom
Bend Yoga session
Saturday, Oct. 18th
(9:00 am-5:00 pm)
“Get the Heck into Dodge” with The
Depot Theater Company serving Miss Kitty
Vodka
9:00 am: Breakfast by Public Oldtown
9:00 am: Bloody Mary Bar sponsored
by The Anchor
11:00 am: Sliders from Heroes
11:00 am: Salad Bar by Fork and Fennell
11:00 am: Lunch by NuWay
11:00 am: Music Styling’s of DJ Akira
Bend Yoga Session
Bend Yoga session
Miss Kitty Vodka
by Ryan Windham
Bend Yoga session
Sunday, Oct. 19
(Noon-5:00 pm)
Hill Museum serving homemade fudge all
day.
12:00 pm: Salad bar by Fork and Fennell
12:00 pm: Lunch by Al’s Tex Mex
12:00 pm: VIP Glamour Bar sponsored
by Major Hair Co.
12:00 pm: Music Styling’s of DJ BJ
3:00 pm: Wine and Chocolate Pairing
sponsored by Cocoa Dolce
3:00 pm: Jack Daniel’s Family Brand
Tasting
Have a TALLPass, Sponsor or Filmmaker
NOTABLE FILM PROGRAMS, CONT. FROM PAGE 18
Festival Satellite Shows
The Tallgrass Film Festival
Satellite Screening features a
selection of short films in a specially curated program for our
Kansas Historic Theatre Association member theatres across
the state. A program of the Tall-
grass Film Association, a 501(c)3
organization, the Tallgrass Film
Festival fosters the cinematic arts
by creating shared experiences
around the international medium of film. Support your local
historic theatre and experience
the world through a different
lens at the Tallgrass Film Festival
Satellite Screening.
Augusta Historic Theater,
Sat. Oct. 11, 2:00 & 7:00 pm, $6
McPherson Opera House,
Tues. Oct. 14, 7:00 pm, $4
Throughout the year, TFA
collaborates with Kansas Historic
Theatre Association member
theatres to present a Traveling
Road Show of short films in
support of theatre restoration.
This year’s venues included: C.L.
Hoover Opera House (Junction
City), Colonial Fox Theatre
(Pittsburg,) Historic Fox Theatre
(Hutchinson,) Paola Community
Center (Paola,) and McPherson
Opera House (McPherson.)
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GET SMART! FILMMAKER LABS, ROUNDTABLES & TALLGRASS TALKS
Tallgrass is pleased to offer the
following educational offerings
at the festival. For filmmakers
and film aficianados alike, Filmmaker Labs, Tallgrass Talks and
Roundtables offer exceptional
insight into the process of independent filmmaking from beginning to end. Tallgrass’ educational opportunities advance the
organization’s role in cultivating
an audience and a filmmaking
community that is more vibrant
and informed. Apart from postfilm Q&A’s, all educational
events take place in the Film Lab
at the Lux and are open to the
public.
Throughout the festival
Filmmaker Q&A’s: One of the
highlights of seeing movies at a
film festival is the post-screening
Q&A’s with visiting filmmakers,
where you gain valuable insight
into their films and processes.
This year’s Q&A sessions are
sponsored by The Wichita Luxury Collection: A member of the
Scholfield Auto Group. (See a
full list of visiting filmmakers on
Page 17)
Friday, Oct. 17
Filmmakers in Their Natural
Habitat: Meet the Class of 2014
as they introduce their projects
to one another, share war stories
and triumphs and give the behind the scenes scoop on their
projects. Moderated by KMUW’s
Fletcher Powell. (Free)
mentary. ($10 GA)
Noon - 1:00 pm: Tallgrass
Talk: Kurosawa & The Western
The samurai films of Japanese
director Akira Kurosawa exerted
a strong influence on the Western, both in Hollywood and
Europe. Using film clips, Film
Historian and Kurosawa Scholar
Stephen Prince explores this
influence and discusses how
Kurosawa’s samurai and the
American gunfighter are similar
figures of myth and legend.
(Free)
Meet the Distributors: Join
members of the Stubbornly Independent Jury and visiting filmmakers as they talk about the
state of distribution for independent film. Moderated by
Monterey Media’s Scott Mansfield. (Free)
Sunday, Oct. 19
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Filmmaker
Lab: Documentary 101
Alumni Filmmaker Mark Covino (Dir. A BAND CALLED
DEATH) returns with a crash
course in the world of documentary filmmaking. The workshop will examine the ways in
which artists use the moving
image to explore, represent,
construct and change the world.
Technical and aesthetic aspects
of video production will be covered as well. ($10 GA)
Crowdfunding Your Indie
Film: Is crowd-funding your film
project a sure-bet? Chat with
visiting filmmakers who have
used crowd-funding platforms to
finance their films and get the
straight-scoop on what works
and what doesn’t. Moderated by
KMUW’s Fletcher Powell. (Free)
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CHARITABLE TRUST
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10:00 - 11:00 am: Filmmaker
Lab: Acting for Indie Film
Your script is great, your cinematography is beautiful, the
story is worth telling... but if
your actors aren’t good, nobody
cares. Alumni Filmmaker (FAVOR) and Writer/director/actor
Blayne Weaver will discuss the
challenges, benefits and tricks to
working with actors in independent film. While directing the
actor’s performance is a huge
responsibility, it’s only one aspect in the actor-director relationship. This workshop will
explore everything from the first
steps of auditioning talent and
negotiating with agents to the
actual shooting and then on to
post-production, red carpet,
Q&A’s at the festival circuit, all
the way to the Blu-Ray com-
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THE FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE
Wednesday, Oct. 15
Friday, Oct. 17
Saturday, Oct. 18
Sunday, Oct. 19
7:00 p.m. - Life Itself (Orpheum)
9:30 p.m. - Opening Night Gala Party
(Union Station)
9:45 a.m. - The Great Invisible (Garvey Forum)
10:00 a.m. - The Burgeoning (Garvey
- Med)
10:00 a.m. - Art & Craft (Center for
the Arts)
10:00 a.m. - The Overnighters (Scottish Rite)
10:15 a.m. - Brave New Wild (WSU
Shiftspace) Oakley Anderson-Moore
11:00 a.m. - The Salvation (Orpheum)
11:15 a.m. - The Maltese Falcon
(1931) (Library)
12:00 p.m. - Kumiko, The Treasure
12:00 p.m. - The Brio (Garvey Forum)
12:30 p.m. - The Bonds (Garvey Med)
12:15 p.m. - The Kill Team - (WSU
Shiftspace)
12:15 p.m. - Oil & Water (Center for
the Arts)
1:00 p.m. - Satan Met A Lady (Library)
1:15 p.m. - The Life and Mind of Mark
DeFriest (Orpheum)
2:00 p.m. - Filmmakers in Their Natural Habitat Film Lab at the Lux
2:15 p.m. - The Battle (Scottish Rite)
2:15 p.m. - The Supreme Price (Center for the Arts)
2:45 p.m. - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
(Library)
3:00 p.m. - Light Fly, Fly High (Garvey
- Med)
3:45 p.m. - The Dark Valley (Orpheum)
About Art (Center for the Arts)
4:30 p.m. - Stray Dog (Scottish Rite)
(Garvey Forum)
4:45 p.m. - Metro Manila (WSU Shiftspace)
5:00 p.m. - Mood Indigo (Garvey Med)
5:00 p.m. - Tallgrass Brewing Co.
Shindig (Transportation Museum)
7:30 p.m. - Yojimbo (Orpheum)
7:45 p.m. - Traitors (Scottish Rite)
9:45 p.m. - Child of God (Scottish
Rite)
10:00 p.m. - Return of the Reels Gala
Party (Cowtown)
11:59 p.m. - A Fistful of Dollars (Orpheum)
9:00 a.m. - Kumiko, The Treasure
9:00 a.m. - The Bright (WSU Shiftspace)
9:30 a.m. - The Dark Valley (Orpheum)
9:30 a.m. - The Brio (Garvey Forum)
9:30 a.m. - The Bonds (Bank of America)
10:00 a.m. - The Burden (Garvey
Med)
10:00 a.m. - Acting for Indie Film, Film
Lab, at the Lux
11:15 a.m. - A is for Alex (Scottish
Rite) Alex Orr
11:30 a.m. - The Bold (WSU Shiftspace)
12:00 p.m. - Bruce Conner: Crossroads & Experimental Shorts (Orpheum)
12:00 p.m. - The Life & Mind of Mark
DeFriest (Garvey Forum)
12:00 p.m. - The David Dance (Bank
of America)
12:00 p.m. - Kurosawa & The West
Film Lab at the Lux
12:15 p.m. - Oil & Water (Garvey
Med)
1:15 p.m. - Growing Cities (Wichita
Art Museum)
1:30 p.m. - Keep On Keepin On
(Scottish Rite)
2:00 p.m. - The Bizarre (WSU Shiftspace)
2:00 p.m. - Distribs on Distribution
Film Lab at the Lux
2:15 p.m. - Queens & Cowboys (Garvey Med)
(Garvey Forum)
2:30 p.m. - Half Brother (Orpheum)
2:30 p.m. - Silenced (Bank of America)
About Art (Wichita Art Museum)
3:45 p.m. - Man From Reno (Scottish
Rite)
(Garvey Med)
Dirty (Orpheum)
4:45 p.m. - The Bloody (Bank of
America)
7:15 p.m. - Longwave (Orpheum)
7:30 p.m. - The Living (Scottish Rite)
10:00 p.m. - Stubbornly Independent
Gala Party (Emprise Bank Parking Garage)
11:59 p.m. - Wetlands (Orpheum)
12:00 - 5:00 p.m. - VIP Filmmaker
9:00 a.m. - The Kill Team - (Scottish
Rite)
9:00 a.m. - Queens & Cowboys: A
Straight Year on The Gay Rodeo (Garvey Med)
9:00 a.m. - The Burgeoning (Bank of
America)
9:30 a.m. - The Bright (Garvey Forum)
10:00 a.m. - Firkin Filmmaker Brunch
(Monarch)
11:00 a.m. - Silenced (Scottish Rite)
11:15 a.m. - Bona Fide (Garvey Med)
11:30 a.m. - The Salvation (Bank of
America)
12:00 p.m. - Down to the Wire Showcase (Garvey Forum)
12:00 p.m. - Documentary:101 Film
Lab at the Lux
12:00 p.m. - Art & Craft (Wichita Art
Museum)
1:30 p.m. - Pretty Rosebud (Scottish
Rite)
1:45 p.m. - Joel Fein Emerging Student Shorts (Garvey Med)
(Bank of America)
2:00 p.m. - The Overnighters (Garvey
Forum)
2:00 p.m. - Mood Indigo (Wichita Art
Museum)
3:45 p.m. - Five Star (Orpheum)
3:45 p.m. - Sunbelt Express (Scottish
Rite)
4:00 p.m. - The David Dance (Garvey
Med)
4:00 p.m. - Love Land (Bank of America)
4:00 p.m. - Crowdfunding Your Film
Film Lab at the Lux
4:30 p.m. - Timothy Gruver Spotlight
on Kansas Filmmakers (Garvey Forum)
7:00 p.m. - Before I Disappear (Orpheum)
9:00 p.m. - Closing Night Gala Party
(Block1 Parking Garage)
Thursday, Oct. 16
10:30 a.m. - Metro Manila (Scottish
Rite)
11:45 a.m. - Cowboys with The Great
American Wheat Harvest (Historical
Museum)
Dirty (Scottish Rite)
3:00 p.m. - Bona Fide (Historical
Museum)
3:45 p.m. - Fight Church (Scottish
Rite)
5:00 p.m. - Go Wichita VIP Shindig
(Rooftop At Sutton Place)
5:00 p.m. - The Great Invisible (Orpheum)
7:00 p.m. - Gone Doggy Gone (Orpheum)
7:30 p.m. - Mad As Hell (Scottish
Rite)
Vimeo
Audience
Award
Every vote counts so grab your ballot
and cast your vote for the Vimeo Audience Awards. All “in competition" films
are eligible to win. On Sunday evening, votes will be tallied and awards
will be given to the Feature Narrative
($1,000 Cash Prize), Feature Documentary ($1,000 Cash Prize) and Short
film ($500 Cash Prize) that Tallgrass
audiences appreciated the most. All
monetary prizes are furnished by Vimeo.
These and other awards will be
handed out at the Awards Ceremony at
the Closing Night Gala include special
Golden Strands programming awards,
Best Kansas Short and Best Emerging
Student Short.
Plus, every time you vote, you’ll be
entered to win a VIP TALLPass for the
13th annual Tallgrass Film Festival.
Film lovers, let your voice be heard!
Saddle Up to These
Watering Holes
Join fellow Tallgrass patrons
and visiting filmmakers at some
of our favorite eating & drinking
establishments after the WSU
Thursday Night Spotlight films.
The Anchor, Public Oldtown,
Taste & See, The Monarch,
Heroes & Larkspur will offer a
Tallgrass Beer and Jack Daniel’s
cocktail special.
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Simply Delicious
WITH A SIZZLING SUBPLOT
FreddysUSA.com |
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SHORTS PROGRAMS
BRUCE CONNER SHOWCASE
Bruce Conner: Crossroads & Experimental
Shorts 71m
Crossroads
Directed by Bruce Conner (USA, 1976, 36m)
A retrospective look at Bruce Conner’s landmark
35mm film (featuring a newly restored 35mm print)
in which he combined repeated slow-motion images
from National Archives footage of the first underwater
hydrogen bomb test conducted on Bikini Atoll on July
25, 1946. Playing with new experimental shorts:
Playing with:
The point, d. Thomas Brandstatter, Andrea Maurer
(USA, 2013, 5m)
The Otherworldly, d. Evan Mann (USA, 2013, 8m)
This is (not) Yates, d. Joshua Yates (USA, 2013,
4m)
Interstates, d. Jeffery Chong (Canada, 2014, 3m)
The Meteor, d. Charles Griffin Gibson (USA, 2013,
15m)
Sat. Oct. 18, noon at the Orpheum
Bruce Conner: The Art of the Montage 75m
Recognized as one of the leaders of New American
Cinema in the 1960s, Bruce Conner transformed the
discards of pop culture - from B-movie clips to newsreel and television footage- into an art form that
paved the way to the music video. (Curated by Film
Forum, NYC.)
Cosmic Ray (1962, 4m)
A Movie (1958, 12m)
The White Rose (1967, 7m)
Marilyn Times Five (1973, 14m)
Vivian (1965, 3m)
Ten Second Film (1965, 0.167m)
Breakaway (1966, 5m)
Mea Culpa (1981, 6m)
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976, 6m)
Valse Triste (1977, 5m)
His Eye Is on the Sparrow (2006, 5m)
Easter Morning (2008, 10m)
Sponsored by Ulrich Museum of Art
Fri. Oct. 17, 2:15 p.m. at WSU Shift Space - $5
Matinee
FEATURETTES
HOME ON THE RANGE: Kansas Documentary
Program
Cowboys d. Ed Shank (USA/Greenwood County,
Kan., 2014, 45m)
Great American Wheat Harvest d. Conrad Weaver (USA/Colby, Kan., 2014, 60m)
Sponsored by PRo Kansas & Great Plains Nature
Center
Thur. Oct. 16, 11:45 am at the Wichita Historical
Museum - $5 Matinee
THE BATTLE: A Matter of Conflict
I Married My Family’s Killer d. Emily Kassie (Canada, 2014, 40m)
War Against Women (La Guerra Contra Las
Mujeres) d. Hernan Zin (Spain/USA, 2013, 62m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 2:15 p.m. at the Scottish Rite - $5
matinee GA; This film is also a Free Friday Film Se-
lection and admission is complimentary for students/
teachers/seniors 65+ with valid ID.
THE BURDEN: Wounds of Conflict and
Oppression
Children of War (Atfal al harb) d. Meedo Ali (Iraq,
With Time d. Malak Quota (United Arab Emirates,
2014, 14m)
Aban + Khorshid d. Darwin Serink (USA, 2013,
14m)
We Are The Ones d. Jon Michael Shink, Michael
Skinner (Sudan/USA, 2014, 62m)
Sponsored by KU School of Medicine
Sat. Oct. 18, 10:00 a.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean
SHORTS BEFORE FEATURES
The Struggle of Libations (w.Gone Doggy Gone)
d. Erin Mullally (Ireland, 2014, 8m)
The Missing Scarf (w.Mad As Hell) d. Eoin Duffy
(Ireland, 2013, 7m)
Lomax (w.Johnny Winter) d. Jesse Kreitzer (USA,
2013, 12m)
Meet My Rapist (w.Wetlands) d. Jessie Kahnweiler
(USA, 2013, 7m)
Hoover Road (w.Queens & Cowboys) d. Jonathan
Pope Evans (USA/Kansas, 2014, 16m)
Monotony (w.The Overnighters) d. Joanne Postlewaite (UK, 2013, 3m)
Democracy (Democracia) (w.Longwave) d. Borja
Cobeaga (Spain, 2013, 10m)
Nesma’s Birds (w.Light Fly, Fly High) d. Najwan
Ali & Medoo Ali(Iraq, 2013, 7m) Iraqi Independent
Film Center
Isle de Jean Charles (w.Oil & Water) d. Emmanuel
Vaughan-Lee (USA, 2014, 10m)
Bloodhounds (w.Child of God) d. Alan Scott Neal
(USA, 2014, 15m)
Little Shadow (w.The Kill Team) d. Toby FellHolden (USA, 2013, 18m)
Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution (w.The
Supreme Price) d. Matthew VanDyke (USA, 2013,
15m)
Directors on Directing (w.A Life in Dirty Movies)
Tinker (w.Art & Craft) d. Lou Ward (USA, 2014,
5m)
Claire (w.Traitors) d. Cate Smierciak (Germany,
2014, 14m)
THE BRIGHT: Comic Lighter Fare Shorts
Sheltered Love d. Alex Italics (USA, 2014, 10m)
What Cheer d. Michael Slavens (USA, 2014, 17m)
Tape Recorder d. Douglas Horn (USA, 2014, 7m)
Failure Groupies d. Mandira Chauhan (USA, 2014,
13m)
15m)
The Moped Diaries d. Tyler Nilson, Nick Vitale
(USA, 2013, 10m)
Dad in Mum (Papa dans Maman) d. Fabrice
Bracq (France, 2014, 7m.)
Sun. Oct. 19, 9:30 a.m. at the Garvey Forum
THE BOLD: More Serious Shorts
The Followed d. Zak Klein (UK, 2013, 13m)
From the Sky d. Ian Ebright (USA, 2013, 18m)
Righteous d. Cory Bowles (Canada, 2014, 12m)
Krisha d. Trey Edward Shults (USA, 2013, 15m)
Stop Traffik d. Wes Halula (USA/Kansas City,
2013, 14m)
The Phone Call d. Mat Kirkby (UK, 2013, 21m)
Lambing Season d. Jeannie Donohoe (USA, 2013,
15m)
THE BONA FIDE: Documentary Biopics
Font Man d. Dress Code (USA, 2013, 6m)
Families Are Forever d. Caitlin Ryan (USA, 2013,
21m)
Maikaru d. Amanda Harryman (USA, 2014, 8m)
The Last Days of Peter Bergmann d. Ciaran Cassidy (Ireland, 2013, 20m)
Running Blind d. Ryan Suffern (USA, 2013, 32m)
Find Me a Man d. John Sebelius (USA/Kansas,
2014, 8m)
Dwayne’s Photo d. Sarah George (USA/Kansas,
2014, 7m)
Blind Guy d. Kyle Pugh, Evan Senn (USA/Kansas,
2014, 6m)
Running Blind sponsored by ENVISION
Thur. Oct. 16, 3:00 p.m. at the Wichita Historical
Museum - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct. 19, 11:15 a.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean
THE BRIO: Animated Shorts full of vivacity
A Tax on Bunny Rabbits, d. Nathaniel Akin (Canada, 2011, 3m)
Sebastian, d. Vlad Marsavin (USA, 2013, 19m)
One Night in Florida, d. Tess Martin (Netherlands,
2013, 1m)
Happily Ever After d. Ben Genislaw, Yonni Aroussi
(Israel, 2012, 7m)
A Ride Towards The Sea, (Une balade a la mer)
d. Damien Stein (France, 2013, 4m)
Eideann, d. Alvaro Granados (Spain, 2013, 5m)
School Friends, d. Johgsu Oh (Australia, 2014,
2m)
Yearbook, d. Bernardo Britto (USA, 2013, 6m)
Locked, d. Madaline Barwegen (USA, 2014, 5m)
Payada pa’ Satan, d. Antonio Balseiro, Carlos
Balseiro (Argentina, 2013, 8m)
The Chaperone 3D, d. Fraser Munden, Neil Rathbone (Canada, 2013, 12m)
Rabbit and Deer, (Nyuszi es Oz) d. Peter Vacz
(Hungary, 2013, 17m)
Humanexus, d. Ying-Fan Shen (USA, 2013, 11m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:00 p.m. at the Garvey Forum - $5
Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30 AM at the Garvey Forum
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SHORTS PROGRAMS
THE BONDS: Relationships — some
complicated, some not
Two Penny Road Kill d. Lisa Rose Snow (Canada,
2013, 7m)
Molly d. Craig Elrod (USA, 2014, 13m)
In Passing d. Alan Miller (Canada, 2013, 5m)
Tom in America d. Flavio Alves (Brazil/USA, 2014,
16m)
My Guide d. Barnabas Toth (Hungary, 2013, 13m)
Electric Indigo d. Jean-Julien Collette (Belgium/
France, 2013, 24m)
Life’s A Bitch (Toutes des Connes) d. Francois
Jaros (Canada, 2013, 6m)
The Proposal d. Geordie Sabbagh (Canada, 2013,
8m)
The Morning After d. David Renaud (Canada,
2013, 14m)
The Struggle of Libations d. Erin Mullally (Ireland, 2014, 8m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 12:30 p.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean - $5 Matinee
Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30 AM at Bank of America
THE BIZARRE: Sci-fi and just plain strange
Leviathan Ages d. Jon Yeo (UK, 2013, 4m)
Stereo Love d. Martin Lliev (Bulgaria, 2013, 9m)
Liability d. Travis Aitken (USA, 2013, 6m)
Load d. Paul-Anthony Navarro (USA, 2013, 11m)
Project: EGO d. Angel Alvarez (Canada, 2014, 4m)
Tall Evil d. Wally Chung (USA, 2013, 3m)
The Routine d. Brian Groh (USA, 2013, 10m)
Astigmatismo d. Nicholai Troshinsky (Spain, 2013,
4m)
First Prize d. Kevin McMullin (USA, 2013, 10m)
The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos and Stacey
Danger d. Michael Lukk Litwak (USA, 2013, 10m)
Total Freak d. Andrew Ellmaker (USA, 2014, 10m)
THE BLOODY: A blend of dark, ruthless and
somewhat bloody
Last Shot d. Greg Popp (USA, 2013, 11m)
Sibling Rivalry d. Colin Davis (Canada, 2013, 8m)
One Armed Man d. Tim Guinee (USA, 2014, 28m)
#twitterkills d. Brett Sorem (USA, 2013, 11m)
Dead Hearts d. Stephen Martin (Canada, 2014,
17m)
Counter Parts d. Patrick Rea (USA/Kansas, 2014,
13m)
Fool’s Day d. Cody Blue Snider (USA, 2013, 20m)
Sat. Oct. 18, 4:45 p.m. at Bank of America
THE BURGEONING: Coming-of-age
Full-Windsor d. Faraday Okoro (USA, 2014, 6m)
Whale Valley, (Hvalfjorour) d. Guomundur Arnar
Guomundsson (Iceland/Denmark, 2013, 16m)
Lipstick d. Luay Fadhil (Iraq, 2013, 9m) Iraqi Independent Film Center
Up on the Roof d. Nour Wazzi (UK, 2013, 17m)
Rite of Spring d. Glen Wood (Canada, 2014, 11m)
Hero d. Benoit Martin (France, 2013, 22m)
The Hero Pose d. Mischa Jakupcak (USA, 2013,
13m)
Fri. Oct. 17, 10:00 AM at the Garvey Mediterranean - $5 Matinee
Sun. Oct. 19, 9:00 AM at Bank of America
TIMOTHY GRUVER SPOTLIGHT ON
KANSAS FILMMAKERS PROGRAM
Knee Jerk Reflex d. Andrew Regoli (Wichita, 2014,
4m) ICTFest Visual Noise Music Video Contest Winner
The 6th Stage of Sugar d. Emily Railsback (Chicago-Hillsboro/Peabody, 2013, 13m)
The Burden of Being d. Rodrick Pocowatchit
(Wichita, 2014, 12m)
MasterPiece,d. Meagan Flynn, Amber Rapp
(Shawnee, 2014, 5m)
Drive-Ins Driven Out? d. John Kitch (Conway
Springs, 2014, 12m)
Fleming (Nebraska-Lawrence, 2014, 7m)
Mouth Breather d. Tyler Doehring (New YorkWichita, 2013, 13m)
Last Week d. Vaughn Fry (Wichita, 2014, 4m)
Housekeeping d. Catherine Licata (Austin-Lenexa/
Lawrence, 2014, 16 m)
Good Conduct d. Patrick Rea (Lawrence, 2014,
8m)
Oklahoma d. Tyler Emerson (Wichita, 2014, 3m)
Sponsored by Mindfire Academy
Sun. Oct. 19, 4:30 p.m. at the Garvey Forum
JOEL FEIN EMERGING FILMMAKER
PROGRAM: High School and Younger
Little Kitty in the Big City d. Nick Connell (USA/
Towanda, Kan., 2014, 6m)
Screenwriter’s Block d. James Tralie (USA/Pennsylvania, 2013, 3m)
King’s Cross d. Benjamin Murphy (Australia, 2014,
9m)
Breaking Point d. Samuel Gouldthorpe (USA/
California, 2013, 4m)
Changing Identity d. Mary Adams (USA/Georgia,
2013, 4m)
Lunch with Yoshi d. Chaitanya Gopinath (Thailand, 2012, 5m)
Penelope’s Penguin d. Oliver Levi-Malouf (Australia, 2013, 7m)
Heavenly d. Caroline Palsi (USA/New Jersey, 2014,
12m)
James d. Jonah Haber (Canada, 2013, 4m)
Model Figure d. Isabella Olaguera (USA/New
Jersey, 2014, 5m)
Connie d. Abbey Sacks (USA/Washington, 2014,
2m)
Soul’d d. Samantha Mustari (USA/New Jersey,
2013, 6m)
Inside the Ring d. Darian Henry (USA/New York,
2013, 8m)
Black Rock Creek d. Malone Lumarda (USA/California, 2013, 5m)
Your Second Self d. Anna Vosbigian (USA/California, 2m)
Violets Are Blue d. Kathryn McCarthy (USA/Florida, 2014, 7m)
Short Circuit d. Marina Bruno (Canada, 2013, 6m)
Laundry Day d. Michael Stevantoni (Canada, 2013,
3m)
Falling d. Miles Warren (USA/New York, 2014, 7m)
Timeless Solutions d. Mark Breedlove (USA/
Illinois, 2014, 8m)
Sponsored by The Galichia Foundation
Sun. Oct. 19, 1:45 p.m. at the Garvey Mediterranean
DOWN TO THE WIRE SHOWCASE: Films
from the Down to the Wire: 24 Hour Film
Race ... with a twist!
Cat Zero d. Lonny Quattlebaum (Creature Feature,
USA/Kansas, 2014, 4m) 2nd place
One Life Left d. Kevin Wildt (Adventure, USA/
Kansas, 2014, 6m) 3rd place
The Curse of the Cat d. Chris Steinert (Musical,
USA/Kansas, 2014, 6m)
Catnap d. Alex Thomas (RomCom, USA/Kansas,
2014, 6m)
From Wichita With Love d. Ryan Gates (Spy, USA/
Kansas, 2014, 4m)
The Good, The Bad, & The Fury d. Christopher
Ary (Western, USA/Kansas, 2014, 6m) Audience
Choice
Sponsored by Blacktop Nationals & CreativeRush
Sun. Oct. 19, noon at the Garvey Forum
SATELLITE ROAD SHOW
Drive-Ins Driven Out? d. John Kitch (USA/Conway Springs, Kan., 2014, 12m)
Fleming (USA/Lawrence, Kan., 2014, 7m)
Lomax d. Jesse Kreitzer (USA, 2013, 12m)
Find Me a Man d. John Sebelius (USA/Topeka,
Kan., 2014, 8m)
15m)
Augusta Historic Theater, Sat. Oct. 11, 2:00 &
7:00 p.m., $6
McPherson Opera House, Tues. Oct. 14, 7:00
p.m., $4
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IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BIG READ
These selections screen for free intrigue of a statuette known as
at the Wichita Public Library in the Maltese Falcon.
Fri. Oct. 17, 11:15 a.m.
association with the 2014 Big
Read:
Satan Met a Lady
The Maltese Falcon
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Starring Bebe Daniels, Ricardo
Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma Todd
1931, 80m, USA
A lovely dame with dangerous
lies employs the services of a
private detective, who is quickly
caught up in the mystery and
Directed by William Dieterie
Starring Bette Davis, Warren
William, Alison Skipworth, Arthur
Treacher
1936, 74m, USA
Sardonic detective Ted Shane,
thrown out of one town for
bringing trouble, heads for home
and his ex-partner's detective
agency.
The Maltese Falcon
Directed by John Huston
Starring Humphrey Bogart,
Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter
Lorre
1941, 100m, USA
A private detective takes on a
case that involves him with three
eccentric criminals, a gorgeous
liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Fri. Oct. 17, 2:45 p.m.
VISITING FILMMAKERS & GUESTS
■ Filmmakers:
Oakley Anderson-Moore, Brave
New Wild
Kasi Brown, Gone Doggy Gone
Jack Byran, The Living
John Diaz, Five Star
Laura DuBois, The Living
Anthony Grippa, Half Brother
Mye Hoang, Man From Reno
Emily Kassie, I Married My Family’s
Killer
Theo Love, Little Hope Was
Arson
Brent Lubbert, Growing Cities
David McGowan, The Struggle of
Libations
Ethan Minsker, Self Medicated:
A Film About Art
Chance Mullen, SunBelt Express
Andrew Napier, Before I
Disappear, Mad As Hell, Grandma’s Not a Toaster
Alex Orr, A is for Alex
Damien Patrik, Directors on Directing
Zak Piper, Life Itself
Emily Railsback, 6th Stage of Sugar
Patrick Rea, Counter Parts
Clela Rorex, Limited Partnership
Charlie Sadoff, The Life & Mind of
Mark DeFriest
Don Scime, The David Dance
Ed Shank, Cowboys
Jon Michael Shink, We Are The
Ones
Michael Skinner, We Are The Ones
John Snyder, The Living
James Spione, Silenced
Peggy Steffans Sarno, A Life in
Dirty Movies
Bryan Storkel, Fight Church
Josh Tate, Love Land
Chuti Tiu, Pretty Rosebud
Conrad Weaver, Great American
Wheat Harvest
John Wildman, Ladies of the House
■ Guests:
Andrea Allen, Director of Production, Vimeo
Jason Bailey, Flavorwire Film Editor
Mark Covino, Filmmaker (A Band
Called Death), Filmmaker Lab
Instructor
Brian Flanagan, Senior Director,
In-Theatre Marketing, Roadside
Attractions
Jenny Jacobi, Project Manager,
Drafthouse Media
Scott Mansfield, Managing Partner,
Monterey Media
Stephen Prince, Film Historian/
Kurosawa Scholar
Blayne Weaver, Filmmaker (Favor),
Filmmaker Lab Instructor
Plus many more local and
regional filmmakers
BOX OFFICE INFO, CONT. FROM PAGE 7
of films are offered free of charge
to students, teachers and seniors
VIP TALLPass: $195 (includes
65+ on the morning and afternoon
5-day admission to all Galas, GA
of Friday, Oct. 17. Sponsored by
films, Educational Offerings, VIP
Receptions & VIP Lounge)
Free Films at Wichita Center
Student TALLPass: $80 (infor the Arts & Wichita Public
cludes admission to all Gala Films, Library: All films screening at
GA films and educational offerthese venues are free. Seating is
ings)
available on a first-come, firstGeneral Admission: $10
serve basis.
Discounted General AdmisFine Print: Once purchased,
sion: $8 for students, teachers,
tickets are non-refundable and
seniors 65+, military with valid ID
non-exchangeable. Many films
General Admission Matinees: have not yet been rated by the
$5 admission for films starting
MPAA, parental discretion is adbefore 5:00 pm on Thursday and
vised. No babes in arms. Program
Friday
running times may or may not
Gala Tickets: $25 includes
include introductions, shorts, and
movie & after party with open bar, Q&A’s.
eats & live music
Gala Film-Only Tickets: $15
Box Office F.A.Q.’s
available only for Opening Night,
TALLPass Vouchers: If you’ve
Return of the Reels and Closing
received a TALLPass voucher, it
Night Gala. Does not include
must be exchanged at festival will
admission to the party.
call. (see Page 7 for hours & locaFree Friday Films: A selection
Ticket Prices
STUFF FOR STUDENTS
Fri. Oct. 17, 1:00 p.m.
tion.)
GA & GALA VOUCHERS: Gala
Vouchers must be exchanged in
person at the Orpheum, Scottish
Rite or Garvey Theater Box Office
for an actual ticket. GA vouchers
may be exchanged at any box
office for a ticket. Vouchers have
no cash value and are non-refundable.
Online Pass Purchases: All
TALLPasses purchased online
must be picked up at Will Call.
Gala Tickets: Gala tickets are
sold as a package, including movie and after-party. Galas are
fundraisers for TFA and gala tickets are only valid for the individual
gala on the ticket. Individual movie
tickets are available for Opening
Night, Return of the Reels and
Closing Night Galas for $15.
Seating: Seating is first-come,
first-serve. We strongly encourage
you to be at the theater and in
your seat 15 minutes prior to
showtime.
Tallgrass offers many unique
educational opportunities for
students (of all ages and skill
sets) to learn about the craft of
cinematic arts, and encourages
students to meet filmmakers,
watch movies and attend educational events, many of which
are free or at low cost.
Free Friday Films: With
their valid school ID’s, students
are offered complimentary
admission to the Free Friday
Films selection, courtesy of
(see full list on Page 18)
Filmmaker Roundtables:
Various filmmaker roundtable
discussions are offered
throughout the festival at no
cost. (see Page 20)
Filmmaker Labs/Tallgrass
Talk: Students are encouraged
to attend instructional learning
events presented at the festival
by visiting filmmakers and
guests. (see Page 18)
Spotlight on Kansas Filmmakers/Emerging Filmmaker Program: With a valid
school ID, students are invited
to attend these programs free
of charge. (See Page 25)
Discounted GA Tickets/
Student TALLPass: With a
valid school ID, students received a discounted $8 admission to all general admission
films. A Student TALLPass is
also available which grants the
bearer admission to all GA
films, Gala Films (excludes
parties) and Filmmaker Labs.
Volunteer: The festival
offers great service opportunities for high school and college
students. Not only are these a
great way to network with
peers and filmmakers, but it’s a
nice addition for any application or resume.
Emerging Programmer
Apprentices: Each year, Tallgrass offers local high school
students an opportunity to
assist with the programming
process by learning how films
are critiqued and programmed.
Check the website in early
2015 for application information. (See credits page for this
year’s list of EPA’s.)
COMING SOON
■ Amadeus
Fri., Nov. 7, 2014, 7:30 pm,
Orpheum
The Wichita Symphony Orchestra, in association with
TFA, presents a 30th anniversary screening of the Academy
Award winning film AMADEUS
on 35 mm film, in advance of
their November 15 & 16 Mozart & Salieri performance at
Century II Concert Hall. For
more information visit wichitasymphony.org.
■ Smallgrass Film Festival
Sat., Jan. 17, 2015, 10 a.m.,
Boeing Dome Theater and
Planetarium at Exploration
Place
Get
your kids
out of
the
house during this three-day
weekend with special family
friendly films, including the
premiere of Exploration Place’s
newest dome theater film,
Animalopolis. Children as
young as three-years-old can
take a light-hearted look at the
animal kingdom with the film’s
Seussian-styled, rhyming narration and humorous scenes.
Discover interesting facts
about cheetahs, bears, lions,
crabs, sea lions, and hippopotamuses. Film selections include shorts and retrospective
and new works.
■ Indie at the Orpheum
presented by Tallgrass Film
Association
Sundays, 2015, Orpheum
TFA and the Wichita Orpheum are pleased to announce a new independent
film screening series. On the
second Sunday of every other
month, Tallgrass will present a
matinee screening of a new or
retrospective independent
film. Save the dates: Jan. 11,
March 8, May 10, July 12,
Sept. 13, Nov. 8 and visit tallgrassfilmfest.com in the coming months for more information.
■ Big Fish Soiree
May 13, 2015, Downing
Children’s Garden at Botanica
TFA and MTWichita present
a BIG FISH celebration, including a screening of the Tim
Burton film (2003,) and garden party. Special guests will
attend and residents will be
invited to submit their own tall
tales and family legends.
MTWichita will present the
musical adaption of BIG FISH
as part of their 44th season,
July 22-26th.
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