Congratulations to all of this year's official selections and visiting (and non-visiting) filmmakers. Thank you for making the 10th annual Tallgrass Film Festival such a wonderful and memorable experience for Wichita audiences.

We'd especially like to congratulate the following films and filmmakers for their achievements, including the txtwrks Audience Award winning films, the Golden Strands Programming Awards, and the Best Kansas and Emerging filmmaker films.

Txtwrks Audience Awards - Winners receives $1,000 cash prize

Narrative Feature: DEAD DAD, Directed by Ken J. Adachi
Runner Up: SHOUTING SECRETS, Directed by Korinna Sehringer

Documentary Feature: BEAUTY IS EMBARASSING, Directed by Neil Berkeley
Runner Up: CALL ME KUCHU, Directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Short Film: CATAPLEXY, Directed by John Salcido

Golden Strands Programming Awards - awarded by Tallgrass Programming Directors for Outstanding Documentary and Fiction Feature

Narrative: THE DAY I SAW YOUR HEART, Directed Jennifer Devoldère

Documentary: YEAR OF THE LIVING DEAD, Directed by Rob Kuhns

Special Acting Recognition: Robert Carlyle, CALIFORNIA SOLO

Kansas & Emerging Filmmaker Winning Shorts (awarded by Tallgrass Programming Directors)

Kansas Filmmaker: HOUSE OF MONSTERS, Director Dawn Brown

Emerging Filmmaker:
Narrative: FRIENDS, Directed by Bunee Tomlinson
Documentary: OPENING LEVITTOWN: MOVING THE FIRST BLACK FAMILY INTO AMERICA'S SECOND SUBURB, Directed by Molly Nemer

Sunday Oct. 21, 2012

Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012

Saturday Oct. 20, 2012

Ten Below

Oct. 20, 2012

Friday Oct. 19, 2012

10/19/2012

Oct. 19, 2012

The audience packed into the Scottish Rite Theater for a sold out screening of THE STORY OF LUKE, at the Velvet Rooster Centerpiece Gala. Director Alonso Mayo and star Lou Taylor Pucci were in attendance. The Down to the Wire: 24 Hour Film Race winning film RE-UP also screened tonight.

We learned lots of fun behind-the-scenes trivia at the first Wichita Film Commission Filmmaker Panel. What a great and varied group of filmmakers we have in attendance this year. Thank you for partcipating and to our great moderator, KMUW's Fletcher Powell.

Korinna Sehringer, Fletcher Powell, Rob Kuhns, Yvette Johnson, Neil Berkeley, Andrew Silver, Cassie Jaye, Mark Hall, Chris Metzler.

We had an amazing time at the Fidelity Bank Opening Night Gala with guests PABLO filmmakers Jeremy Goldscheider (Producer), Marcela Perdomo (Art Director/Animator), and Freddy Morales (Art Director/Animator), AND a special Skype visit from Pablo Ferro himself!

We were lucky enough  to have THE legendary Pablo Ferro join us via skype last night for the Q&A after the US Premiere of PABLO. What a colorful character and a stubbornly independent hero!

The 10^th annual Tallgrass Film Festival kicked off with a lovely reception at Botanica and more than 400 people showing up for the US Premiere of PABLO, which was followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and a live skype with the man himself. There couldn’t have been a more stubbornly independent way to kick off this year’s festival.

Jeremy Goldscheider, Marcela Perdomo and Freddy Morales of PABLO.

Mark Hall (SUSHI: THE GLOBAL CATCH) and Lee Gillentine(THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND) were up early this morning to help promote the Tallgrass Film Festival on B98FM. We're so excited to have so many incredible filmmakers with us this year. (And thanks for getting up so early, guys!)

We kicked off Tallgrass X with a little singin' and dancin' at our official festival hotel, Hotel at Waterwalk Wednesday night!