Tallgrass Road Show Pulls Into McPherson In January
WICHITA, KAN, Dec. 16, 2011 — Wichita’s Tallgrass Film Association will kick off its 10th year with a screening of the Tallgrass Film Festival Road Show, 7 p.m., Jan. 12, at the McPherson Opera House, 221 S. Main, McPherson. Tickets are $3 at the door.
Presented by TFA and the Kansas Historic Theater Association, the Tallgrass Film Festival Road Show brings a program of the festival’s best short films to historical theaters throughout the state of Kansas.
Specially curated by the TFA programming directors to showcase the very best of the film festival, the short subject films span all genres and include several films from Kansas filmmakers, international shorts and an Academy Award nominee. The program is designed to give the people of Kansas a taste of past Tallgrass Film Festivals and a preview of festivals to come. Each screening will serve as a fundraiser for the presenting historical theater. The program is also sponsored by Go Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau.
“The McPherson Opera House is proud to welcome the Tallgrass Film Festival Road Show to our venue,” said Executive Director John Holecek. “We have the world’s largest Joe Kane-Da-Lite screen, which, coupled with our Sim2 high-definition projector, provides stunning image quality. Couple that with our fully digital Tannoy sound system and our intimate 488-seat auditorium, and you have a movie experience of the first order”
Built in 1888, the McPherson Opera House was one of the first with electricity, had no equal between Kansas City and Denver and on opening night, all 900 seats were sold out, in a town of less than 2,500 people.
