Film in Kansas City - Recently

Recently

Many popular feature films have been produced in Kansas City, including Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990); Article 99 (1992); Kansas City (1996), a film about 1930s Kansas City and Kansas City Jazz music, directed by native Robert Altman; Asteroid (1997), which is loosely based in Kansas City; and Ride with the Devil (1999), about the anti-slavery/pro-slavery schism during the Civil War that took place on the Kansas–Missouri border near Kansas City. Recently, the Greater Kansas City Film Commission was founded to encourage producers to film in Kansas City, and the FilmFest Kansas City and Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee were begun as traditional local festivities.

The newest films to come out of Kansas City are CSA: Confederate States of America by Kevin Willmott, which premiered at Sundance, and AIR, a feature-length musical. Also the film Raising Jeffry Dahmer produced by Wood Dickinson was distributed direct to video through LIONSGATE. Renegade Pictures and Wood Dickinson produced and wrote is also produced Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas. This film took best actor and actress plus best director at the Beverly Hills film festival. The film went on to win three Telly Awards. In August 2010 Wood Dickinson produced the film Abandoned starring Brittany Murphy. This would be her last starring role before she died. Coming soon is the film Student Suspicion produced by Wood Dickinson with Renegade Picture, LLC and Barnholtz Entertainment.