Local events continue with Seldom Heard Film Festival, Rudy Love documentary, Tallgrass
Kansas filmmakers and Kansas films are the center of attention at the first-ever Seldom Heard Film Festival, to be held Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Augusta Historic Theatre, 523 State St. in Augusta.
Films to be shown include “I Was A Buffalo Soldier: The Story of Nolen Self” by Rusty Earl, “Buffalo Roam” by Adam Dreher, “Our Charlie: Charles Curtis — A Boy Forced to Choose,” presented by the Shawnee County Historical Society, “Medicine Hills” by Nick Abt, and “No Stone Unturned” by Cole Campbell.
The festival schedule includes a filmmaker meet-and-greet at 2 p.m. at the theater. Professional Native American performer Wichita War Dancer kicks off the film festival with a dance on stage at 3 p.m., followed by film screenings. A post-show dinner reception starts at 6 p.m. at Sugar Shane’s Cafe, 430 State St. in Augusta.
Tickets are $11 for just the festival or $28 for a festival and reception-dinner bundle.
More information can be found at www.seldomheardfilmfestival.com.
Show some Love
A special screening of the locally made documentary “This is Love” will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Orpheum Theatre, 200 N. Broadway.
The film, a passion project for Wichita filmmaker Shawn Rhodes, documents the journey of soul singer and Wichitan Rudy Love, who died last week and whose experience in the music industry spanned decades.
The film features interviews with such iconic musicians as George Clinton and Mick Fleetwood, among others, as well as comedian Sinbad. It had its U.S. debut at Wichita’s Tallgrass Film Festival in 2018, and has since played at festivals around the world.
The screening is free, although cash donations are encouraged to help Love’s family with funeral costs.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Masks are required unless actively eating or drinking. No tickets are required.
Tallgrass debuts
The Tallgrass Film Festival will kick off its 19th year with a free family-friendly screening of “Shrek” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Naftzger Park, 601 E. Douglas.
After that, the in-person portion of the festival moves to various venues in downtown Wichita Oct. 20-24. This year’s program includes 44 feature-length films and 128 short films, with 26 films made by Kansans. The full line-up for the festival can be found at tallgrassfilm.org/2021-lineup.
I’ll have a Tallgrass Film Festival preview in the Arts section on Oct. 17.
Independently Indigenous
I am curating and organizing the inaugural alterNative Film Festival, Wichita’s first all-Indigenous film festival, to be held Nov. 12-14 at the Mid-America All-Indian Museum at 650 N. Seneca.
The line-up will be unveiled on Friday, Oct. 15, online at www.alterNativeFilmFestival.org.
I’m stoked to announce that the opening night film will be “Blood Quantum,” directed by Jeff Barnaby. It will be a regional premiere.
In the film, the dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow in Canada, except for its Indigenous inhabitants, who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. The film won many awards and made a splash at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Wichita screening is courtesy of horror subscription service Shudder.
Other films being shown will include works from across the U.S. and Greenland. All screenings will be free and open to the public. Choctaw filmmaker Mark D. Williams from Oklahoma will be the featured guest. A schedule will be posted soon.
This story was originally published October 15, 2021 at 3:47 AM with the headline "Local events continue with Seldom Heard Film Festival, Rudy Love documentary, Tallgrass."