Tallgrass Film Festival

Tallgrass Film Festival

The Tallgrass Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Wichita, Kansas. It was founded in 2003 by the late Timothy Gruver, and is operated by the non-profit organization Wichita Association For the Motion Picture Arts. It is a four-day, richly diverse independent film festival, open to the public, and screens roughly 50 shorts and features each year.

The festival takes place at several locations in the heart of downtown Wichita including the Warren Old Town theater. In 2007 over 6,000 people attended. Since its creation in 2003, over 20,000 people have attended with approximately 200 filmmakers and guests coming in for the festival from all over the world.

Official Selections have included Audience Award winners The Big Bad Swim and 39 Pounds of Love; as well as the 2006 Independent Spirit Award winner Conventioneers, the 2007 Independent Spirit Award nominee Trials of Darryl Hunt as well as Bomb The System, Manhattan, Kansas, Dreamland, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Fat Girls, Iraq in Fragments, The Last Picture Show, The Buddy Holly Story and the popular High School Shorts Program and Timothy Gruver Spotlight on Kansas Filmmakers.

External Links

[http://www.tallgrassfilmfest.com/festival/ Tallgrassfilmfest.com]
[http://www.fest21.com/blog/iffs/2007_international_film_festival_summit_addresses_impact_of_technology_on_content_and_film_festivals Fest21.com]


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