The 2008 Tallgrass Film Festival lineup and event details were announced at the festival’s press conference at the Warren Old Town theater this afternoon. The Tallgrass Film Festival will feature more than 100 films from all over Kansas, the country and the world.The Opening Night Gala sponsored by Naked City will feature a Work-In-Progress screening of the documentary WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? inspired by the best-selling book by native Kansan Thomas Frank. The film, by Chicago filmmak...
Sunday March 2nd 2008, the International Family Film Festival culminated four days of diverse feature films, shorts films, student shorts, industry panels and workshops, the Screenwriter’s Showcase & Award Ceremony, the Freshi Road Show, receptions, interviews and networking, with the prestigious IFFF Awards Ceremony & Banquet. At the black tie event, Chris Shoemaker, one of the festival founders and IFFF’s Executive Director, said of the 13th IFFF, “Yesterday afternoon the Goodyear Blimp...
The 2008 International Family Film Festival is opening its 13th season at the landmark Raleigh Studios in the heart of Hollywood on Thursday February 28th! When thinking about the IFFF, that great hit by the O’Jays, Love Train comes to mind. This song personifies the IFFF like no other. The first stanza reads,” The next stop that we make will be England. Tell all the folks in Russia and China too. Don’t you know its time to get on board? And let this train keep on riding, riding on t...
The Opening Night Hoop-La! begins Thursday February 28th at 12:00pm with feature and short films simultaneously screening in the 3 theatres at the Raleigh Studios. To name a few Screenings: at 4:00 is Conchita Nora Villa’s Alondra Smiles (about a young girl’s quinceanera jeopardized by a jealous cousin); followed by Dennis Fallon’s All Roads Lead Home (the story of a troubled girl who questions her value in life) at 6:00; and at 8:00, Sandy Tung’s Alice, Upside Down (the story of a “t...
This year’s International Family Film Festival has selected Alice, Upside Down, by writer/producer/director Sandy Tung, as its opening night feature presentation, screening Thursday, February 28th at 8:00pm at the landmark, Raleigh Studios. The premiere is followed by a fiesta-filled reception at the famous, Lucy’s El Adobe Café on Melrose. Funny and poignant, Alice Upside Down is the story of a young girl in her “tweens”, grappling with finding her identity after the loss of her moth...
