FILM

QUEEN CITY SHOUT VIRTUAL FESTIVAL

Welcome to the Queen City Shout Film Festival of 2020! Watch all films accessible throughout the week. You're just a  click away from a front row seat to the best local films Springfield has to offer!

MOST FILMS WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT QCS WEEK

"CENTER OF NOWHERE"

DAVE HOEKSTRA

A documentary about community and America’s most overlooked music scene.

"THORNCROWN VR"

DAVE BEACH

Using Virtual Reality to promote healing and recovery.

"ULYSSES"

GEVE PENAFLOR

Chronicles a man's journey home as he evaluates his relationship with his partner.

SATO 48

VARIOUS FILMS

JEFF CLINKENBEARD & KYAW THAHLA

Various features by several different SATO 48 film teams.

CARBON TRACE PRODUCTIONS

"SPACE OF RESISTANCE"

MADDY WIEHE

This short documentary examines the role of street art in the current protests against government corruption in Chile from the perspective of an MSU student who witnessed events firsthand.

"WITNESS AT TORNILLO"

SHANE FRANKLIN

This documentary feature tells the story of a man from Brooklyn who sat alone in the West Texas desert, compelled to witness the injustice of family separation and child detention. His goal was to shut down thus American internment camp and free the children. Can individual action make a difference? This is the story of a protest movement called "witnessing"— the subversive act of seeing.

MISSOURI STATE DIGITAL FILM & TELEVISION PRODUCTION

"POST MISERIAM"

DIRECTED BY HONESTY GANT

PRODUCED BY HONESTY GANT AND DANIELLE R. L. McCOWAN

A young couple struggles to move on after the loss of a child.

TODD FORTENBERRY

"WHEN YOU GET CARRIED AWAY MAKING A SANDWICH"

"WHEN YOU GET CARRIED AWAY MAKING A SANDWICH"

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY

One man's quest to create the perfect sandwich goes horribly awry.

MISSOURI STATE ELECTRONIC ARTS PROGRAM

"RECOILED"

PRODUCED BY SHALOM SIMMONS

DIRECTED BY CLAIRE GRIM

Kalli’s hair is so curly it has a life of its own. With the help of her younger sister Ro, she discovers that being true to yourself is far more important that conforming to social norms of beauty and peer pressure to fit in.

"STAGES"

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED

BY NICHOLE CLARK

An experimental visual album that explores the emotional growth of a person throughout their life.

"WHAT IF IT'S POISON?"

PRODUCED BY DESTINY HANKS AND DIRECTED BY KENNEDY GIRARD

A social-media professional dives deep into her own subconscious-self when her lover leaves unexpectedly. 

"ZETA"

PRODUCED BY NATALIE LaTURNO

DIRECTED BY ALEC KNOPF

Charlie, a successful real estate marketer, lives an effortless life at the hands of his digital assistant, ZETA. When ZETA discovers that Charlie has been keeping secrets, "she" sees it as a threat to her purpose in life.