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Title: Nine Grounds
Director: Bryon Blakey
Writer: Bryon Blakey
Runtime: 90 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Released 2008

Charlie (Danny Phillips) goes on an all expense paid Cambodian trip with the his rich friend (Laurel Kemper), her mother (Crystal Noble) and soccer team. Before they are able to compete in a game, they are all kidnapped. After attempts to get help from others, his temperamental father, Chuck (Russ Metcalf) decides to take the matter on himself.

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Title: Crime Family
Director: Bryon Blakey
Writer: Bryon Blakey
Runtime: 88 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Released 2004

Two brothers are thrown into a sordid world of sex and drugs in Crime Family. An ex-convict Danny (Jeff Collins) tries to get his life back on track by holding down a retail job. After unsuccessfully trying to strike up a conversation with the girl of his dreams, he sees two men abduct her on the street. He turns to his bounty hunter brother to help locate her before the Vietnamese Mafia can sell her to Asian brothels.

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Title: Larva
Director: Tim Cox
Writer: David Goodin & Kevin Moore
Runtime: 96 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Released 2005

Hell comes to a small town in Missouri when a small community is besieged by a cattle epidemic that rapidly threatens to infect the human population. Some horrific mutations develop as insect larva wipes out the cattle that keeps the town in business, then moves on to larger, human prey.

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Title: Rock 'n' Roll Space Patrol
Director: Jim Bultas
Writer: Jim Bultas
Runtime: 90 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Released 2006

The Planetary Outposts in Space Sector 219A have one by one fallen prey to a baffling infection. Inhabitants have given up their scientific and knowledge gathering initiatives and have instead resorted to mindless rampant consumerism & corporatised servitude. Super Silver Base Alpha has sent their top space agent, Bronco Cedar, to investigate the latest outbreak on Outpost 11. Now he's gone missing, so as a last resort they've sent Buck Fiesta, their B-list agent with an itchy trigger finger and a chronic case of sarcasim, to sort things out.

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Title: Vile 21
Director: Mike Strain Jr.
Writer: Mike Strain Jr. & Michael Weldon
Runtime: 80 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Released 2004

When Dr. Walter Hall creates a drug that turns men into rampaging creatures, the government forces him to continue his unorthodox experiments. Coerced by the authorities, he injects the serum into an unsuspecting derelict and unleashes an unspeakable terror upon the community-a monster- part man, part reptile, part alien. Now, twenty years later, the creature has resurfaced and Dr. Hall must literally put the devil to rest by reopening the old experiment by once again confronting the evil he knows as... VILE 21!

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Title: Ravage
Director: Ronnie Sortor
Writer: Bryon Blakey & Ronnie Sortor
Runtime: 85 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Released 2002

After witnessing the brutal slaughter of his family by a vicious serial killer, criminal psychologist, Gregory Burroughs, is engulfed in an obsession for revenge. He follows a trail of carnage and destruction to a violent underworld and becomes entangled in a web of brutality surrounded by an army of cold-blooded assassins. The resulting explosion of action and violence propels Gregory to the ultimate chance to attain vengeance.

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Title: Sinyster
Director: Ronnie Sortor
Writer: Todd Reynolds & Ronnie Sortor
Runtime: 70 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Released 1998

Gunshots ring out in an alley. Amidst the chaos of the violence, two people are killed and one wounded. After what should have been an easy hold-up, unforseen events send Simon and Lisa on a nightmarish path to their doom! Pursued by the haunting images of his crimes, Simon takes refuge in a deserted, foreboding house, awaiting the rendezvous of his accomplice. As darkness encroaches, he realizes that the house embodies a dark presence. An axe-weilding butcher and his undyting horde of mutilated victims send Simon to the fringes of madness. Without hope of escape, he can no longer deny the malevolent force within as the night of terror claims one final victim...

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Title: The Money Maker
Director: Jason Brasier
Writer: Jason Brasier
Runtime: 60 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Screened

Diego has been a bounty hunter and hired killer since he was a twelve year old boy. Now twenty, and one of the best in his profession, he decides to start a new way of life, but it met with much hostility from the gang he works for, The Ruthless Boys. They pay him to do one more hit and they say they will let him go. Despite the hostility and money, Diego leaves, and after marrying Elizabeth, the love of his life, one year later she is taken by the Ruthless Boys. They tell Diego to finish the job he was hired to do and he would get his wife back, but when he arrives at his destination, it's a set up and The Ruthless Boys have set him up...and...Diego takes care of business the only way he knows how....

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Title: Motor Home from Hell
Director: Ross Payton
Runtime: TBD
Location: Springfield
Status: Screened

The mysterious fortune teller, Madame X, had a psychic vision of a 1975 recreational vehicle packed with vampires and zombies, driven by the Devil. Phil Philby, parapsychological PI and ex-C.I.A. hit man, took the case. A Cajun meth cooker, a sadistic country sheriff, sinister government agents, and a pricey Indian medicine man are only a few of their problems. Can they stop this horrific challenge to Homeland Security before the evil RV triggers the apocalypse?

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Title: The Champions
Director: Jason Brasier
Runtime: 60 min
Location: Springfield
Status: Finished

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Title: Homage: Darkness and the Lord's Prayer
Director: Darrell Claunch
Writer: Darrell Claunch
Runtime: TBD
Location: Springfield
Status: Post

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Title: Albino Farm
Director: Joe Anderson & Sean McEwen
Writer: Joe Anderson & Sean McEwen
Runtime: TBD
Location: Springfield
Status: Post

College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers.

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Title: Black and White
Director: Darrell Claunch
Runtime: TBD
Location: Springfield
Status: Filming

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Title: The Dead Shall Rise
Director: Matt Darst
Writer: Matt Darst
Runtime: TBD
Location: Springfield, Willard
Status: Post

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Title: Civil War Stories
Director: Brian Egen & Don Maxwell
Writer: Brian James Egen & Don Maxwell
Runtime: 93 min
Location: Kansas City
Status: Released

Three of the most popular and controversial Civil War stories by legendary writer Ambrose Bierce are presented in this acclaimed feature collection.

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Title: All Roads Lead Home
Director: Dennis Fallon
Writer: Douglas Delaney
Runtime: TBD
Location: Kansas City
Status: Released March 10, 2008

12 year old Belle loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father Cody struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise a young girl who believes her father is partly responsible for her mother's death. Hock, Belle's grandfather, has trouble communicating with Belle after the accident since she reminds him too much of his daughter. Her rebellious behavior forces Cody to send Belle to her grandfather's farm. It is Atticus the dog who will change Belle's life and the lives of those who love her.

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Title: Suspension
Directors: Alec Joler & Ethan Shaftel
Writer: Aris Blevins
Runtime: 95 min
Location: Kansas City
Status: Released May 27, 2008

A man loses his family in an accident but gains an extraordinary power: The power to stop time.

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Title: Alice Upside Down
Director: Sandy Tung
Writer: Meghan Heritage & Sandy Tung
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Screened

Still coping with the death of her mother six years ago, "new girl" Alice is full of anxiety, awkward moments, and overwhelming challenges. But Alice charges forward through chaos and embarrassment with the support of her father, her teachers (Ashley Drane and Penny Marshall), and her new friends.

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Title: Texas Snow
Director: Aaron Coffman
Writer: Aaron Coffman
Runtime: 70 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Completed

When Jesse and Caroline discover a newfound affection for one another, they struggle to keep their relationship a secret from Lee, Jesse’s roommate and Caroline’s ex-boyfriend. But when Lee moves away, Jesse and Caroline find themselves questioning whether what they’ve been feeling is love at all.

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Title: A. (anonymous)
Director: Daniel Bowers
Writer: Daniel Bowers
Runtime: 53 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Released 2006

Looking for a support group to help him with his compulsion to wear extremely tight pants, Gavin was turned away from 12-step programs like AA, NA and GA. "Why all the labels?" Gavin asks. "Why not put all problems under one umbrella?" "That is why I created A. I want to help people no matter what their challenges are." The group's newest challenge is Benji, a troubled 35 year-old "huffer" whose mother has sent him to A. As the members struggle with Benji, they begin to work through their own inner-demons and start to see the value in their lives. Although Tartowski's methods are less than orthodox, his ability to heal is indisputable.

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Title: ThanXgiving
Director: Bobby Ray Akers, Jr.
Writer: Richard M. Novosak
Runtime: 85 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Released 2006

The woods around Traunton Riverbend Campground hold many secrets. The rusted cars and abandoned camp sites tell stories of those who trespassed onto the camp ground and never came out. When Specter (Marshall White) convinces his friend Alexis (Suki Peters) to join his new filmmaking friend Dean and his crew on the set of the latest horror film, no one suspects the true horror that awaits them. Ari Lehman, best known to horror fans as Jason from Friday the 13th, appears as Delbert Eaton the neighbor farmer who tries to warn the young filmmakers.

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Title: Hooch & Daddy-O
Director: Donna Northcott
Writer: Oscar Madrid & Jim Ousley
Runtime: 74 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Released 2007

In this uproarious mockumentary about a fictional 1980s cop show, a film crew documents the reunion of television detectives Jerome "Hooch" Hendrickson (Chris Anich) and David "Daddy-O" Mandlebaum (Jim Ousley) as the cast of the 1982 runaway hit "Hooch & Daddy-O" gathers for a 2002 made-for-TV movie. The "documentary" filmmakers explore the show's phenomenal success, its impact on pop culture and incidentally capture all the backstage drama.

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Title: Jealousy
Director: Brent Madison
Writer: Brent Madison
Runtime: 97 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Premiered 1/12/2008

Brian Young and Nate Beckman star in this drama of friendship and trust, or lack thereof. Having been friends their whole lives, they risk everything by getting into a fight that may never bring them back to see each other again. Envious of each other, they can't help but argue to whatever end. Maybe a lost friendship can be re-found and perhaps piece their lives back together.

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Title: Abbey of Thelema
Director: J. Grimm & Vincent Jennings
Writer: Vincent Jennings
Runtime: 80 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Screened

Inspired by real events, this 2007 biopic profiles occultist Aleister Crowley, whose philosophy of unfettered experimentation with sex and drugs led him to set up a controversial commune based on the tenets of free will and the pursuit of knowledge. The film recounts the life of Crowley (Mike Ketcher) chapter by chapter, from his stint as a New York City painter to the 1920 founding of the Abbey of Thelema in Sicily to his eventual downfall.

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Title: Ghost Image
Director: Jack Snyder
Writer: James Schulte & Srikant Chellappa
Runtime: 100 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Screened

When a young female video editor loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died. When he starts to communicate with her through that video, she must decide if he has broken through the barrier between this world and the next or if she has slipped off into madness.

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Title: The M.O.A.
Director: Lando J
Runtime: 111 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Completed

Agent G2 is sent to Dallas, TX, to help Agent G4 retrieve an allegedly stolen technology disk that the agency doesn’t want on the streets. Meanwhile in St. Louis, MO, Agent G5 and G3 Go undercover investigate a new type of steroid drug that gives athletes a 3 minute edge over their opponents called "Rage Rush." Mixx, the brother of Agent G5, has acquired the disk and uses the technology to build a weapon for his own revenge. After Agent G2 is awakened by a dream and a malfunctioning satellite downloads secret classified information that Mixx murdered Agent G1 and that G4 withheld Intel from him, he becomes distrustful of "The Men of Action" and the S.C.O. (Secret Covert Office) but nevertheless, he and G4 steal a military helicopter to fly to St Louis to assist Agent G5 before his cover is blown!

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Title: Kingshighway
Director: Clayne Crawford
Writer: Daniel Bishop & Franco Bongiovanni
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Completed

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Title: The Sound of Victory
Director: Harry Kroenlein
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Clair
Status: Premiering 3/3/2008

A character study about a young woman who spends her days in boredom and her nights intoxicated, trying to escape the emptiness of small town life. Bored with herself and the world she lives in, she decides to go on a road trip with a young admirer, only to discover more emptiness in the big city.

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Title: Saving Grace
Director: Connie Stevens
Writer: Connie Stevens
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Post

In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live with the family.

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Title: Say Goodnight
Director: David VonAllmen
Writer: David VonAllmen
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Post

Three guys tell a friend the stories of how they met the loves of their lives, and how they managed to completely screw up the relationships.

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Title: Still Waters
Director: Carolyn Miller
Writer: Carolyn Miller
Runtime: 90min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Released

A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.

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Title: Shadowland
Director: Wyatt Weed
Writer: Wyatt Weed
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Post

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Title: Hermetica
Director: Trevor Juenger
Runtime: 90min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Screening (iFilm)

Hermetica is an experimental feature blending genres to achieve a dark and surreal experience. The film is made up of five shorts, excluding the opening/closing pieces, that tackle the taboo topics of abortion, prostitution, domestic abuse, and a slew of other sociological issues.

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Title: The Book
Director: Ben Hall
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Post

Powers from above and below have fought for centuries to maintain the balance. Now one man sent from the light may be the only chance to stop the darkness.

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Title: Colonel Kill Motherf***ers
Director: Kevin Strange
Writer: Kevin Strange
Runtime: 66min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Released

While attempting to rid themselves of their dorky ways, a group of role-playing nerds anger a homicidal ex-army veteran named Jack Scabtree and inadvertantly kill him. Unfortunately for them, Scabtree's mother is heavy into the Black Arts, and soon, Jack Scabtree has been raised from the dead, with but one thought on his mind: to kill those kids!

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Title: Rhineland
Director: Chris Grega
Writer: Chris Grega
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Screened

Set in March, 1945 during the battle known as "the last great killing ground in the west," Rhineland tells the story of a young replacement thrown into an under-strength mine platoon. A burned-out lieutenant and a bitter sergeant are his only guides as he struggles to come to terms with the brutality of war during the final bloody months of WWII.

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Title: The Lucky Ones
Director: Neil Burger
Writer: Neil Burger & Dirk Wittenborn
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Post

The story revolves around three soldiers -- Collee, T.K. and Cheever -- who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S. with Collee on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family because he saved her life, T.K. seeking confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury that threatens his sexual function and middle-aged Cheever planning to hit the casinos in a desperate effort to pay for his son's college tuition.

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Title: Edgar Allen Poe's Ligeia
Director: Michael Staninger
Writer: John Shirley
Runtime: 90 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: World Premiere July 23, 2008

Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy. She steals other people's souls and on her quest to immortality she tricks Jonathan into supporting her work, breaking him apart from his fiancé Rowena and pulling him into her dark, mysterious world. They settle down in an old manor by the Black Sea where Ligeia's everlasting presence slowly drives Jonathan to madness.

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Title: Streetballers
Director: Matt Krentz
Writer: Matt Krentz
Runtime: 110 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: World Premiere July 23, 2008

In this Irish urban drama about street basketball, two junior-college students find release and therapy while playing on one of the most competitive street courts in the U.S.

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Title: Ezra Crane
Director: Matt Davids
Writer: Matt Davids
Runtime: TBD
Location: St. Louis
Status: Completed

Wars raged. Plagues ravaged. Civilization fell. A new dark age took a hold of mankind. Small bands of survivors huddle together living off the remains of the old world. Yet, one man wanders the wild lands alone, shunned and feared. He calls himself Ezra Crane, but who he really is no one knows. One day a young girl interrupts his solitary existence. She calls herself Feather and says she’s on a quest. Not wishing her to face the dangers of the wilderness alone Ezra agrees to aid her. The journey takes them deep into the forgotten lands filled with strange perils. Ezra is forced to reveal terrible secrets about his past and finally his true identity. Eventually, Ezra realizes the mysterious young Feather may hold the key to his long awaited redemption.

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Title: Meet Bill
Director: Bernie Goldmann
Writer: Melissa Wallack
Runtime: 95 min
Location: St. Louis
Status: Now in Theatres

A guy fed up with his job and married to a cheating wife reluctantly mentors a curiously wise, rebellious teen.

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Title: American Shopper
Director: Tamas Bojtor & Sybil Dessau
Writer: Tamas Bojtor & Adam Keker
Runtime: 86 min
Location: Columbia
Status: Released

One man's passionate and comic struggle to start an unlikely new sport, which causes the citizens of a small town to overcome their initial skepticism and get swept up in his crazy dream. The film follows the stories of several townspeople who decide to participate in the sport and compete in the 1st National Aisling Championship, and whose lives are turned upside down in the process.

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Title: Song of the Dead
Director: Chip Gubera
Writer: Chip Gubera
Runtime: 86 min
Location: Columbia
Status: Released

Spray missions intended to protect Americans against the dangerous 1000-year Mosquito Awakening start bringing the dead back to life when Terrorists infect it with the Jihad Resurrection Virus (JRV) for biological warefare.

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Title: Box Elder
Director: Todd Sklar
Writer: Todd Sklar
Runtime: 89 min
Location: Columbia
Status: Released

Box elder bugs are loud, scary looking, and dependent on group swarming. Yet, they're also completely harmless and extremely passive aggressive. Using this metaphor to address a generation that thinks big, talks fast, and threatens to change the world, Box Elder is an unapologetic portrait of a youth movement at odds with its own ambivalence, exposing a generation defined by privilege, potential, and self-induced paralysis.

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Title: A Ripple in the World
Director: Aron Cho
Runtime: 82 min
Location: Columbia
Status: Completed

A random act of violence sets off a chain of events. From the salvation of a killing bully to an awkward encounter with a virgin suffering an epileptic sleep disorder to a transvestite's reunion with a past she left behind as a reckless man.

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