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35 Days screens Thursday, Nov. 10 at 9:15pm at The Tivoli Theater as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Director Chris Grega and members of the cast and crew will be in attendance. Ticket information can be found Here.

The latest from longtime Sliff favorite Chris Grega (“Rhineland,” “Game of the Year,” “Sound of Nothing”), “35 Days” is a mockumentary riff on a subject that the local filmmaker knows all too well: the scramble to complete a movie on a tight deadline and nonexistent budget. St. Louis indie film director Eric Cutter (Travis Estes) — an exaggerated but sympathetic take on Grega — decides to complete his long-abandoned third feature, “Gunman,” as a tribute to his friend Sam Harrison (Steven J. Heffernan), an actor in the film who recently died. To accomplish the task, Cutter must reunite his quarrelsome cast and crew to finish the movie that derailed their hopes and dreams a decade earlier.

35 Days screens Thursday, July 21st at 7:00pm at the Tivoli Theater as part of this year’s St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase. Ticket information can be found Here

Veteran Showcase filmmaker Chris Grega is back with his latest feature, which also serves as a tribute to a local actor, Steve Heffernan, who died tragically of a heart attack a few years ago. The film is the story of indie-film director Eric Cutter’s attempt to complete his long-abandoned third feature film, “Gunman,” in time for a local film festival. Spurred on by the recent death of Sam Harrison, his friend and actor in the film, Cutter must reunite his old crew for one last chance to finish the movie that derailed their hopes and dreams a decade earlier.

Chris Grega took the time to answer questions about his film for We Are Movie Geeks in advance of it’s screening at the St.

And the winner is……St. Louis!

Independent filmmaking thrives here and we’re lucky to have such a top-notch cinema-related event planning group like Cinema St. Louis to organize an event like last week’s Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase at the Tivoli Theater. After Thursday night’s final film, an awards party was held in the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill.

Congratulations to all the winners……and here they are:

Best Film (Narrative Feature): “Joint Body” by Brian Jun

Best Documentary Feature: “Give a Damn?” by Dan Parris

Best Actor: Mark Pellegrino “Joint Body”

Best Actress: Libby Bibb “All Those Yesterdays”

Best Supporting Actor: David Martyn Conley “Bedlam Street”

Best Supporting Actress: Julie Layton “Bedlam Street”

Best Actor In A Comedic Role: Doug Jones “Sudden Death!”

Best Actress In A Comedic Role: Michelle Davidson “Ready to Pop”

Best Juvenile Actor: Caden Self “Hidden Treasure”

Best Juvenile Actress:...

Shorts Program 8: Horror Shorts includes 8 individual short films of various styles, for a total running time of 95 minutes. Played consecutively, these films offer a broad and entertaining showcase for independent horror filmmakers in the St. Louis area.

The Cask Of Amontillado (13 minutes)

Directed by Hugo Fleming, The Cask Of Amontillado is a tale of revenge, based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe. Two men (Mark Bunch and Billy Benner), with their minds altered by the effects of Budweiser 40s, wander deep into a subterranean realm, whereas only would may ultimately return. The film is more of a operatic ode to Poe, that a traditional narrative film. The Cask Of Amontillado contains no dialogue, instead told entirely by the very words of Poe himself. Illustrated by a haunting piano and vocal score (Somewhere Under the Rainbow, written and performed by Heather Rice) that draws on the dark heart of Poe’s literary horror.

Cinema St. Louis, our city’s non-profit cinema-related event planning group, will presenting its 11th annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase which begins this Saturday, August 13th at the Tivoli Theater (and ends with a party on the 18th at Blueberry Hill). The showcase, sponsored by Stella Artois Beer, is a chance for St. Louis-based filmmakers to show off their art. All of these films were written, directed, edited or produced by St. Louis natives or those with strong local ties. The 16 film programs that screen at the Tivoli from Aug. 14-18 serve as St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. Watch for more coverage of this important local event here at We Are Movie Geeks.com over the coming days

Here’s the schedule:

Saturday, Aug.

Wonder what those limousines were doing in front of the Tivoli last week? It was the10th Annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and congratulations to everyone who had a hand in the 65 films that were shown. The Cinema St. Louis event was held July 17-22 and focused exclusively on the works, both shorts and features, of St. Louis-based filmmakers, as well as expatriates with strong local connections who have gone on to work in other cities. Attendance was high, the audiences enthusiastic, and it was great to see so much local talent on display. A packed post-fest party was held at the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill Thursday night and awards were presented in various categories. It takes hard work and dedication to complete a film and every one of these St. Louis filmmakers involved is a winner. Here’s a list of what the judges at this year’s St.