St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
2011 Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
Official selections have been made for the 2011 Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. Wow the line-up was amazing!
Here is the official list of films and filmmakers that have been invited to screen in competition at the St. Louis International Film Festival this fall:
Narrative Features
All Those Yesterdays directed by Aaron Coffman
Bedlam Street directed by Paul Wendell
Joint Body directed by Brian Jun
Love Stalker directed by Bowls MacLean and Matt Glasson
Voltron Force produced by World Event Productions
Documentary Features
Brick by Chance and Fortune directed by Bill Streeter
Give a Damn? directed by Dan Parris
Gray Seasons directed by Robert Herrera
Shorts
Artifacts directed by Michael McCubbins
Autumn: Early Stages of Decline directed by Virginia Lee Hunter
Brainstorm directed by Zlatko Cosic
Big Time directed by Peter Carlos
Boom Boom directed by Larry and Terry Ziegelman
Camus’ The Fall directed by Michael McCubbins
The Confined directed by Nicholas Acosta
Fluff directed by Anthony Meadows
The Inheritance directed by Vanessa Roman and Sandra Olmsted
Lies We Tell Ourselves directed by Mariah Richardson
Life Cycle directed by Stephen Jones
Love, Guns and Amy directed by Marttise Roosevelt Hill
My Best Wand directed by Mike Rohlfing
Natures’s Variation directed by Chadwell Ruthsatz
Outpost 13 directed by Corey Logsdon
Physics 720 directed by Kenny Kinds
Rare Gold directed by Peter McLeod Seay
Showdown directed by Brant Hadfield
Stairs directed by Doveed Linder
Strumpet directed by Wolfgang Lehmkuhl
Sudden Death! directed by Adam Hall
Supernatural directed by Van McElwee
The Tower directed by Brandan Leahy
Urban Green directed by Zlatko Cosic
Yellow directed by Hannah Radcliff
The Yodel Within directed by Matt Rice
ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION JUDGES PRESENTED
THE FOLLOWING AWARDS FOR the 11th annual STELLA ARTOIS
ST. LOUIS FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE to:
BEST FILM (NARRATIVE FEATURE): "Joint Body" by Brian Jun
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: "Give a Damn?" by Dan Parris
BEST ACTOR: Mark Pellegrino "Joint Body"
BEST ACTRESS: Libby Bibb "All Those Yesterdays"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: David Martyn Conley "Bedlam Street"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Julie Layton "Bedlam Street"
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDIC ROLE: Doug Jones "Sudden Death!"
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDIC ROLE: Michelle Davidson "Ready to Pop"
BEST JUVENILE ACTOR: Caden Self "Hidden Treasure"
BEST JUVENILE ACTRESS: Kylie Cudney "Poke"
BEST CAMEO: John Larroquette "Sudden Death!"
BEST DIRECTOR (Feature): Brian Jun "Joint Body"
BEST DIRECTOR (Short): Adam Hall "Sudden Death!"
BEST SCREENPLAY (Feature): Paul Wendell "Bedlam Street"
BEST SCREENPLAY (Short): Elizabeth Wiegard "Talent"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Feature): Aaron Coffman "All Those Yesterdays"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Short): (tie) Michael Gunter “Memories of Viola" and Mathew Moffitt and Mark Lovelace “Iron Garden”
BEST DRAMATIC SHORT (under 10 min): "Showdown" Brant Hadfield
BEST DRAMATIC SHORT (over 10 min):"Memories of Viola" Michael Gunter
BEST COMEDIC SHORT (under 10 min): "Ready to Pop" Michelle Davidson and
Anthony Ladeisch
BEST COMEDIC SHORT (over 10 min): "Sudden Death!" Adam Hall
BEST HORROR SHORT: (under 10 min): "Stairs" Doveed Linder
BEST HORROR SHORT: (over 10 min): "The Confined" Nicholas Acosta
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: "Gray Matters" Randy Shinn
BEST RELATIONSHIP SHORT: "Love, Guns and Amy" Marttise Roosevelt Hill
BEST ANIMATION SHORT (tie): Michael McCubbins for "Artifacts" and
"Camus' The Fall"
BEST STOP ANIMATION: “Rare Gold” Peter McLeod Seay
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT: "A Lens Apart" William Flynn
BEST FANTASY SHORT: "Iron Garden" Mathew Moffitt and Mark Lovelace
BEST SILENT (Non-Dialogue) FILM: "Of the Ages" Michelle Manott
BEST DREAMSCAPE (Light): "Untie, Unfasten, Undo" Amanda Pfister and
Manda Remmen
BEST DREAMSCAPE (Dark): "The Tower" Brendan Leahy
BEST NATURE SHORT: "Walk in the Sun" Larry Bulawsky
BEST LOCAL HISTORY (Feature): "Brick By Chance and Fortune: A St. Louis
Story" Bill Streeter
BEST LOCAL HISTORY (Short): "Maturity and Its Muse" Franklin Oros
BEST EDITING - Dramatic Short: "00:14:28" Randy Hall
BEST EDITING - Comedic Short: "Boom Boom" Larry and Terry Ziegelman
BEST EDITING - Feature: "The Gray Seasons" Robert Herrera
BEST USE OF COLOR: "The Inheritance" Vanessa Roman and Sandra Olmsted
BEST USE OF BLACK AND WHITE: “Strumpet” Wolfgang Lehmkuhl
BEST ART DIRECTION: “Yellow” Hannah Radcliff
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: "Perception" Ryan Lewis
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC: "Sudden Death!" Kenny Wood and Kahle McCann
BEST OPENING CREDITS: "Joe and Jim" John Launius
BEST CLOSING CREDITS: "The Yodel Within" Matthew Rice
The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase (SLFS), an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. SLFS screens works that were written, directed, edited or produced by St. Louis natives or those with strong local ties. The 16 film programs that screen at the Tivoli from Aug. 14-18 serve as SLFS’s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers.
Saturday, Aug. 13
Filmmaking Seminar
Sponsored by Kaldi’s Coffee
11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd.
Free (donations accepted).
Sunday-Thursday, Aug. 14-18
Film Programs
At the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd.
See full schedule for times and film descriptions. Shorts in multi-film programs are listed alphabetically, not in the order screened.
Thursday, Aug. 18
Closing-Night Awards Party
Sponsored by Stella Artois
8 p.m.-midnight at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.
Free (donations accepted). Attendees must be 21 or older.
Tickets
Tickets for film programs from Aug. 14-18 at the Tivoli are $12 each; $10 for students with valid and current photo ID and for Cinema St. Louis members with valid membership cards. Kids 12 and under receive free admission to the screening of Voltron Force: New Defenders Trilogy on Thursday. Advance tickets go on sale beginning on or before Friday, July 15, at the Tivoli Theatre box office (5-10 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday). Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis. No phone sales, but tickets can be purchased online. The filmmaking seminar (Aug. 13 at Tivoli Theatre) and closing-night awards party (Aug. 18 at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room) are free and do not require tickets, but donations are accepted.
Online Ticket Sales
Tickets may also be purchased in advance at http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets/default.asp. There is a $1 per-ticket service charge. You must pick up your tickets at the Tivoli box-office window. Bring the credit card that you used to purchase the tickets and the confirmation number. Online sales are limited to full-price tickets only. Cinema St. Louis member and student discounts can only be obtained in person at the box office because ID is required.
The Landmark website can be difficult to navigate. Here is what to do:
1. go here: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets/default.asp
2. click on St. Louis under Select Market section
3. click on Tivoli
4. select date from drop down menu on left
5. click on showtime, NOT film title, to get to purchase area
This should do it!
Information
For more information, call Chris Clark at 314-289-4152 or e-mail chris@cinemastlouis.org.
Thank You
Tim Lane (cover artist) and Rob Levy (closing-night DJ).
Sponsors
Logos for Stella Artois (larger), MetLife, Grizzell & Co., Kaldi’s, RAC, MAC, and Whitaker Foundation
Saturday, Aug. 13
Tivoli Theatre
11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Filmmaking Seminar
Dopamine: Writing and Developing an Indie Feature
Sponsored by Kaldi’s Coffee
FREE
In a seminar about the nuts-and-bolts of writing an indie feature, co-screenwriter and co-producer Tim Breitbach discusses the film “Dopamine” – which was developed at the 1998 Sundance Filmmakers and Screenwriters Workshop and premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival – from conception to completion. In “Dopamine” (Mark Decena, 2003, 79 min.), which screens as part of the program, a small tech startup develops a digital pet, Koy Koy the bird, who can hear, see, and interact with the user. When Koy Koy is placed in a schoolroom for testing, one of company’s principals (John Livingston) develops a relationship with the teacher (Sabrina Lloyd), but he finds that his scientific understanding of human mating fails to prepare him for the real thing. Writing about the “Dopamine” after its Sundance premiere, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Mick LaSalle cited it as his favorite of the fest and concluded: “There’s a beauty to this movie, a genuine feeling for the mystery and wonder of love and attraction…. I dragged myself to this film at the end of a long day and walked out invigorated and moved.” Complimentary coffee and pastries from Kaldi’s Coffee will be served.
Sunday, Aug. 14
Tivoli Theatre
Noon
Shorts Program 1: Dramatic Shorts
95 min.
00:14:28
Randy Hall, 8 min.
Three assassins travel back in time to plant a bomb that will kill a presidential candidate in the future.
Back
Sarah Worner, 3 min.
A young girl attempt to stop her family from giving her Native-American grandmother a Christian funeral.
The Courier
Steve Matejka & Alex Keel, 6 min.
A courier attempts to elude capture on the mean streets of St. Charles.
Happy Birthday Mom
Chris Pickup, 15 min.
A young boy in a mental hospital talks to a therapist about an event that happened between his parents.
The Hundred
Tyler DePerro, 4 min.
A stack of $100 bills blow out the window of an apartment, and three strangers who find the money have very different ideas about how to use it.
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Miranda Richardson, 8 min.
Shay sits in the park contemplating why all of her relationships have gone wrong.
Of the Ages
Michelle Manott, 8 min.
A competition takes place between Tradition, who believes his means of creation are beautiful, and Digital, who thinks those methods are outdated.
Plights
Mike Roth, 8 min.
A recent college graduate tastes the real world for the first time.
Poke
Joshua Mullins, 13 min.
An elderly man on the brink of suicide after his wife dies meets a curious, bright-eyed 9-year-old girl.
Showdown
Brant Hadfield, 7 min.
A World War II GI faces reality at the hands of an unexpected ambassador.
Smoke and Mirrors
Peter Carlos, 7 min.
A pulp novelist researches the local bar for his next story.
Yellow
Hannah Radcliff, 9 min.
Estranged siblings reconnect after the death of their father.
2:30 p.m.
Give A Damn?
Dan Parris, 92 min. (work-in-progress)
In this documentary, three friends attempt to live in extreme poverty on $1.25 a day while traveling across three continents. Their harrowing journey takes a dark turn when they survive a plane crash in Africa and must fight to finish what they started.
4:30 p.m.
Brick by Chance and Fortune: A St. Louis Story
Bill Streeter, 70 min.
A documentary about the past, present, and future of brick in St. Louis. The city, which was once home to a large brick-making industry, contains countless brick houses, from small working-class bungalows to the stately mansions of the Central West End and University City.
7 p.m.
Joint Body
Brian Jun, 86 min.
A parolee, abandoned by his ex-wife and barred from seeing his young daughter, develops a relationship with a lonely and troubled woman. When he saves her from an unlikely assailant, he is forced to re-evaluate his freedom as he evades the law and faces demons from his past. This new feature by St. Louis-area native and Webster U. grad Brian Jun – who directed the Sundance-premiering “Steel City” – was shot in the Metro East.
9:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 2: Comedic Shorts
75 min.
15:2
Brennan Parks, 9 min.
EMTs Kevin and Leslie are about to learn that some patients would rather stay dead.
Big Time
Peter Carlos, 10 min.
A sickly boy visits his hero, Bucko the Clown, a grumpy kid-TV performer, while Bucko’s assistant hits on the boys mother backstage.
But It Was Going So Well
Lynelle White, 6 min.
A blind date starts off well, but when the couple discovers that they are on opposite sides of an intense baseball rivalry, the night takes a dramatic turn.
My Best Wand
Forrest Hughes & Mike Rohlfing, 1 min.
A boy demonstrates his fully functional magic wand.
Ready to Pop
Michelle Davidson & Anthony Ladeisch, 6 min.
A horny pregnant woman deals with her husband’s “rejection.”
Sudden Death!
Adam Hall, 20 min.
LA has been overtaken by a virus known as Sudden Death Syndrome, whose victims die after spontaneously breaking into well-choreographed song and dance.
Talent
Elizabeth Wiegard, 5 min.
A girl auditioning for the role of a lifetime is rudely rejected and to her biggest fan – her mother – for comfort.
Toof Hurty
Justin Tolliver, 18 min.
A great detective holes up in a mysterious city to uncover trouble hidden below the surface.
Vespertilio
Mike & David Rohlfing, 1 min.
A masked man shows off his skills.
Monday, Aug. 15
Tivoli Theatre
5 p.m.
Shorts Program 3: Shorts from Cinema at Citygarden and Pulitzer Dreamscapes Competitions
81 min.
Artifacts
Michael McCubbins, 3 min.
Familiar objects morph within dream landscapes.
Autumn: Early Stages of Decline
Virginia Lee Hunter, 3 min.
A sequence of clips depicting autumn.
Brainstorm
Zlatko Cosic, 2 min.
A self-reflexive video in which the filmmaker’s sleep is disturbed by imagery from previous works.
Camus’ The Fall
Michael McCubbins, 5 min.
An animated short inspired by Albert Camus’ novella “The Fall” using leaves found in and around Tower Grove Park.
Close Up
Alison Carrick, 5 min.
An impressionistic look at the sculptures, fountains, and flora of Citygarden.
A Deaf Fable
David Mumpower, 2 min.
An experimental short using sculptures at Laumeier Park to explore deaf culture.
Dog’s Dream
William Morris, 4 min.
Super 8 and medical imagery are juxtaposed.
The Inheritance
Vanessa Roman & Sandra Olmsted, 5 min.
A young woman discovers in a dream what she really inherited from her grandmother.
Iron Garden
Mathew Moffitt & Mark Lovelace, 5 min.
In a city void of nature, a girl embarks on an adventure after a rare glimpse of a flower.
A Lens Apart
William Flynn, 4 min.
A stop-motion exploration of the past – personal and global – through a camera’s lens.
Lucy’s Dream
Clara Smith, 4 min.
A dog has a daydream.
Nature’s Variation
Chadwell Ruthsatz, 3 min.
Dance and daydreams collide on nature’s stage when a ballerina loses herself during rehearsal.
A New Beginning
Mike Gualdoni, 5 min.
A young lady is devastated by unexpected news, but a little time and the beauty of nature bring a smile back to her face.
Rare Gold
Peter McLeod Seay, 4 min.
An animated dream about cardboard.
Sleep Film
Jonathan Eberle, 9 min.
An intimate self-portrait of sleeping and dreaming.
Swing
William Morris, 3 min.
Imagery from a stream of consciousness.
The Tire Swing
Matthew Pierce, 4 min.
A mother encourages her daughter to go outside and play “because you never know what might happen.”
The Tower
Brendan Leahy, 5 min.
An experimental narrative inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s “The Nostalgia of the Infinite.”
Transmorph Dreams
Erin Taylor, 4 min.
An abstract view of a river city.
Untie, Unfasten, Undo
Amanda Pfister & Manda Remmen, 5 min.
A symbolic dream about identity, confinement, and deliverance.
Urban Green
Rachel & Zlatko Cosic, 5 min.
Motion details, still images, and paintings of nature emphasize the colorful and vibrant beauty of the urban space at Citygarden.
Water in the Sun
Larry Bulawsky, 5 min.
A meditative sequence that shows the patterns created in nature.
Weltschmerz
Igor Stevanovic, 4 min.
Nature as a reflection of life.
7 p.m.
Shorts Program 4: Dramatic Shorts
93 min.
Cycles
Elliott Geolat, 11 min.
A solitary girl is drawn to a mysterious graveyard.
Hidden Treasure
Laura Hohenstein, 12 min.
Still haunted by a tragic childhood experience, Bobby realizes he has no choice but to confront his fears face on.
Joe & Jim
John Launius, 11 min.
A moving conversation between two brothers about the pending death of their father.
Life Cycle
Stephen Jones, 22 min.
The story of one man’s life and home, told in one unbroken shot.
Memories of Viola
Michael Gunter, 24 min.
Viola re-examines the lengthy marriage to her husband after he passes away.
Perception
Ryan Lewis, 8 min.
A boy caught in the middle of his parents’ messy divorce uses his imagination to cope with the changes in his life.
Sleep Sunshine
Katie Vessell, 4 min.
A girl escapes her bleak reality through film-inspired dreams.
9:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 5: Experimental Shorts
92 min.
The Cabinet of Dr. Mabuse: Chronicles of an Analog Performance
Eric Matthew Wilkinson, 45 min.
A colorful interpretation of a music event hosted by Dr. Mabuse (Michael Murphy) and featuring his vast array of analog synthesizers.
Decay: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Mike Gualdoni, 2 min.
A piece about the effects of time.
Inanition
Christopher James Jordan, 12 min.
A young woman charts an introspective journey across her own beguiling death-scape.
Kissing Clouds
Brett Marren, 3 min.
Music video for the NYC band Sweet Bulb.
Love, Guns and Amy
Marttise Roosevelt Hill, 4 min.
A Sergio Leone-inspired short in which love drives a man to kill.
Meditation on Maeya
R D Zurick, 5 min.
An abstract video of nature’s basic elements in movement accompanied by a live performance by avant-garde percussionist Rich O’Donnell.
Mr. Brown
Michael McCubbins, 4 min.
A clown is torn between running away to join the circus and having a family.
Physics 720
Kenny Kinds, 3 min.
A music video for hip-hop artist Nato Caliph.
Supernatural
Van McElwee, 6 min.
Experimental film on the nature of the supernatural.
TranStL
Steven Thomas, 7 min.
An abstracted view of river and rail.
Tuesday, Aug, 16
Tivoli Theatre
5 p.m.
All Those Yesterdays
Aaron Coffman, 74 min.
Years after their intense romance, Nathan and Maggie meet up for coffee, but what was meant as a casual lunch quickly turns into a day of soul searching and discovery as they struggle to determine why their lives haven’t turned out the way they’d hoped.
7 p.m.
Love Stalker
Matt Glasson & Bowls MacLean, 95 min. (work-in-progress)
A thirtysomething bar-hopper named Pete lives to sleep with as many women as possible. When he meets the girl of his dreams, she quickly figures out his player ways and moves on, causing him to go to stalker-like lengths to win her.
9:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 6: Comedic Shorts
80 min.
Bloodfest Club: Down on the Farm
Ken Calcaterra, 7 min.
Documentary short on the shooting of the trailer for “The Bloodfest Club,” which will be made into a feature next year.
Boom Boom
Larry & Terry Ziegelman, 8 min.
Two old friends bump into each other over coffee and get into a heated discussion about life and death.
Fluff
Anthony Meadows, 4 min.
A little stuffed animal with a couple of big problems.
Greenthumb
Daniel Parris, 3 min.
A good Samaritan has a solution to all of your gardening problems.
Help Wanted
Ken Calcaterra, 3 min.
A stoner attempts to get a job at an ice-cream store, hoping to reap the benefits of free product.
It’s a Symbol
Jamie Koogler, 16 min.
An acting-class scene partner from hell insists on having a dead rose on the stage, but the rose he purchased refuses to die.
Live by the Sword
Stephen Jones, 14 min.
A man gets carried away with his new sword.
Mugged
Andrew Saunders, 5 min.
A mugger gets more than he bargained for when he selects his next victim.
Robbers
Nick Young, 8 min.
Two robbers get more than they bargained for when they break into a house.
Tireur Embusque
Jordan Oakes & Hal Scharf, 6 min.
At a park filled with people enjoying the day, nobody seems to notice a man who gets out of his car with a gun case.
The World Champions
Matt Basler & Train Mayer, 7 min.
Two rather unsuccessful gentlemen set out to change their status in a big way.
Wednesday, Aug. 17
Tivoli Theatre
5 p.m.
Shorts Program 7: Documentary Shorts
81 min.
Gray Matters
Randy Shinn, 18 min.
A look at senior programs and the impact they have on the lives of the elderly.
Maturity and Its Muse
Franklin Oros, 40 min.
Senior artists talk about their lives and art.
My Name Is Haji Haji
Thomas Crone & Brian Spath, 9 min.
Haji Haji is a Somali immigrant with personality and charisma.
South Side of Luck: Frank’s First Alarm
Thomas Crone & Tyler DePerro, 3 min.
A visit with the denizens of a South Side tavern.
The Yodel Within
Matthew Rice, 11 min.
A young man is inspired to yodel after he watches a YouTube video of “The World’s Greatest Yodeler.”
7 p.m.
Bedlam Street
Paul Wendell, 90 min.
A gritty urban drama, “Bedlam Street” explores race, religion, fear, crime, poverty, family, and children’s innocence through four interconnecting stories that occur during the Christmas season.
9:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 8: Horror Shorts
95 min.
The Cask of Amontillado
Billy Benner, 13 min.
A revenge story based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Confined
Nicholas Acosta, 26 min.
After Jackie (Erin Marie Hogan) witnesses her boyfriend’s brutal murder, she becomes a shut-in and agoraphobic.
The Door
Brent Madison, 12 min.
A young man trying to impress his girlfriend gets overtaken by an evil entity, and the frightened girl comes face to face with the creature behind the door.
In the Cards
Zach Smith, 10 min.
When a young couple seeks the help of a mysterious fortuneteller, they must face their darkest fears and desires.
Outpost 13
Corey Logsdon, 4 min.
A scientist works to save a barren earth.
The Outsider: 911 – The Pilot
Peter Carlos, 10 min.
In the middle of the night, something not of this Earth has come for teenager Alex Jackson.
Stairs
Doveed Linder, 6 min.
A young woman faces her deepest fears on a staircase with no end and no beginning.
Strumpet
Wolfgang Lehmkuhl, 14 min.
On the cusp of a murderous storm, a lonely traveler happens on an old hotel where he is welcomed by the friendly but unnerving innkeeper and haunted during sleep by a beautiful, treacherous siren.
Thursday, Aug. 18
Tivoli Theatre
5 p.m.
The Gray Seasons
Robert Herrera, 86 min.
Coach Shimmy Gray-Miller , a dynamic coach with a history of playing and coaching success, was brought in to turn around the losing culture of St. Louis University’s women’s basketball program. After initial success, injuries and other challenges take their toll, and the coach and her recruits must struggle to maintain their drive and grit as the long seasons unfold.
7 p.m.
Voltron Force: New Defenders Trilogy
World Event Productions, 90 min.
Local animated icon “Voltron: Defender of the Universe” is revived in the all-new animated series “Voltron Force!.” In the first trio of episodes – which form a stand-alone film – cadets Daniel, Vince, and Larmina are recruited into an underground resistance movement led by the original Voltron Force. Together, they battle a resurrected Lotor, who wields a dark energy that threatens to rip the universe apart. Jeremy Corray and Bob Koplar of World Events Productions, the St. Louis-based producers of “Voltron,” will participate in a Q&A and give away prizes. Kids 12 and under receive free admission!
Thursday, Aug. 18
Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room
8 p.m.-midnight
Closing-Night Awards Party
Sponsored by Stella Artois
FREE
KDHX-FM DJ Rob Levy will spin music, and Cinema St. Louis will announce the SLFS films chosen for inclusion in the St. Louis International Film Festival. Awards for the best SLFS films will be given by the St. Louis Film Critics. Complimentary Stella Artois and cash bar. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. Attendees must be 21 or older.
About SLFS
The Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase (SLFS), an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area's primary venue for films made by local artists. With advances in affordable digital filmmaking, more and more movies are being made in St. Louis and environs, but opportunities for moviegoers to see that work are scarce, because few of the films ever screen commercially. SLFS frequently provides the only chance area filmmakers have to display their talents on the big screen. Participating filmmakers have included students, film hobbyists, and seasoned professionals.
Cinema St. Louis has presented the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase since 2002, taking over from the now-closed St. Louis Film Office, which inaugurated the event in 2001. During its existence, SLFS has shown nearly 500 films with St. Louis ties.
* SLFS screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis natives or those with strong local ties.
* SLFS annually features 15-20 programs over five days, ranging from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts.
* SLFS includes post-screening Q&As with filmmakers and offers lively seminars on the moviemaking process.
* SLFS hosts a closing-night party that features announcements of SLFS films chosen for inclusion in the St. Louis International Film Festival and awards given by the St. Louis Film Critics.
