Laura Kirk
Historia
Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnold’s American Honey: Cannes 2016, The Sublime and Beautiful : Slamdance 2014. A veteran on the independent film festival circuit, Kirk co-wrote and starred one of the first digital films: Lisa Picard is Famous: Cannes 2000. It is included in John Gaspard’s book “Fast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.” Kirk began her career on stage in New York off-Broadway and regionally where she was also a teaching artist in homeless shelters and in schools for Dreamyard Drama Project. Major training in Meisner was with Wynn Handman and Suzanne Esper and improvisation with Alan Arkin. Commercials include national campaigns for Block Advisors, Verizon, Wrangler Jeans, Jeep and Dr. Pepper. Laura is a co-founder of the mentoring group “Women of Lawrence Film” where she puts into practice her interests in remedying gender inequity in film. Her research on Eve Unsell will be published in the upcoming "When Women Wrote Hollywood" (Forthcoming McFarland).
Dr. Celia Passer
Cal tries to look for a job during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frankie
Por la silla de peluquera de Claire pasan muchas personas y, a veces, sus tijeras cortan algo más que el pelo, permitiéndole llevarse a su solitaria casa un souvenir único con el que ampliar su peculiar colección. Pero el día en que Olivia, una de sus clientas habituales, le pide que haga un peinado especial para su boda, su secreto estilo de vida amenaza con salir a la luz.
Mae Archer
A young violinist struggles to assert her individuality amidst the intense pressure of her pianist father, and the weight of her own musical ability.
Narrated by Bill Kurtis, this documentary that explores the life an accomplishments of William Allen White.
A twitchy and hysterically garish political satire in which a US senator is vetted for a Presidential nomination by a 6,000 year old telepath that secretly rules the Earth.
Marge McMillan
Inspired by an actual friendship between the director's mother and his mother's best friend, 'The Tree' is a poignant, heart-warming story about an 88 year-old widow (Dorothy Thorp) who takes a road trip from Wamego, Kansas, back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit her oldest and dearest childhood friend.
Laura
'American Honey' es un drama sobre una adolescente que se dedica a viajar por todo el país, en constante huida, mientras vende suscripciones para una revista. La joven pronto se encuentra inmersa en un torbellino de fiestas hasta el amanecer, diversión descontrolada y amor adolescente mientras a la vez que trata de evitar la justicia a toda costa.
Josie
Feeling betrayed by her therapist, a woman in couples therapy enlists her younger lover's help in executing an elaborate hoax, meant to restore power to the patient.
David Conrad is a college professor and sometimes philanderer raising three children in a small Kansas suburb with his wife Kelly. When sudden tragedy strikes the family in the days before Christmas, David and Kelly's marriage is brought to its breaking point and David's desire for retribution leads him into uncharted moral territory with the question: what can we forgive?
Janis Herd
In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel. Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel to become his crew. Over the months it took to complete the earthwork, Stan dealt with a myriad of difficulties in bringing his unique, rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs his art exacted upon his life. In the process, he unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and it's ultimate, lasting rewards
Miss Harris
Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin, a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin's longtime nemesis, the famous "Indian Fighter" Sheriff Henry McCoy, to pursue both Franklin and the boy.
Halle
Peter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Soon after he arrives, the town's electricity and power are shut off, and there is no way to communicate with authorities outside of town. The town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder, against which Salem must stand.
Alberta Talley
Una novicia abandona los hábitos para vivir una nueva vida en la casa que ha heredado de su tía. Cuando un día visita a su primo, ingresado en un centro psiquiátrico, queda conmovida al conocer a un paciente, un hombre cruelmente separado de su hermano gemelo cuando sólo tenía ocho años, acusado del asesinato de su madre. La ex monja inicia por su cuenta una investigación que revelará nuevas y sorprendentes pistas que pondrán en peligro su propia vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Flower Seller
El científico e inventor Alexander Hartdegen ha tomado la decisión de probar que los viajes a través del tiempo son posibles. Una tragedia personal que lo ha sumido en la desesperación es la razón de su deseo de volver al pasado. Pero la máquina de su invención, en contra de sus deseos, lo lleva al futuro (800.000 después), donde descubre que la humanidad se ha dividido en dos bandos: perseguidores y perseguidos.
Writer
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
Lisa Picard
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
Betsy Ernst
Amy visita una clínica de descanso. Allí conoce a Virgil, un masajista ciego del que se enamora. Cuando Virgil se opera para recuperar la vista, descubrirá que el mundo al que tiene que enfrentarse es mucho más complicado que el que tenía en la oscuridad.
