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- Join American rock band Making Movies on the stage of the Historic Folly Theater in Kansas City as they record their first ever live album. Described by NPR as "perhaps one of the most unique groups around today," Making Movies performs all-new arrangements of songs from their latest album XOPA. Featuring Grammy Award-Winning musician Asdru Sierra of Ozomatli, "En la Sala" offers viewers a rare opportunity to experience an intimate Making Movies concert from the comfort of their own homes.
- A look at the plight of Latino immigrants in Missouri and Kansas.
- Kingdom Come: The Making of Casavant Opus 3875 is a feature-length documentary film that goes behind the scenes to chronicle the design, manufacture, and unveiling of a pipe organ for the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. Produced and directed by the Kauffman Foundation, the project was presented as a gift to Julia Irene Kauffman, the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation, the Kauffman Center staff and the Kansas City artistic community, on behalf of the associates and board of trustees of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The film traces the complex task to create a powerful custom-built pipe organ, known as "The King of Instruments," for a modern concert hall. It records the artistry and craftwork of the men and women at the Casavant Frères workshop in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. The story follows truckloads of handmade parts arriving in Kansas City and documents the elaborate process to assemble the massive five-story support structure, delicate instrumentation, and precise individual voicing of each of the organ's 5,548 pipes. In addition to showing the making of the organ, the film tells the story by featuring interviews with key people in Canada and Kansas City. With the instrument in place, the film records history in the making as world-renowned organist James David Christie takes the stage at Helzberg Hall to play the organ for the first time. Ultimately, the film tells the story of a city's commitment to the arts and the imagination, invention, and careful human touch that inspires a creative legacy for musical artists and audiences to admire for generations to come.
- Two-time Sundance director Kevin Willmott chronicles the first full school year back after Kansas City's Gordon Parks Elementary was closed by the state of Missouri for low test scores. How can a school educate the poorest of the poor kids in the urban core?
- Historical documentary about the life and work of visionary Kansas City developer, Jesse Clyde Nichols (1880-1950). Nichols constructed the largest contiguous planned community in the U.S.and the first modern shopping center in America. Nichols ranged far beyond Kansas City. He served on the National Parks and Planning Commission in Washington, DC, and lent his expertise to the planning of many other communities, including Beverly Hills and Cleveland's Shaker Heights. The methods and philosophies Nichols championed are now being used by architects, planners, and developers to build towns and combat sprawl. These "New Urbanists" have found a godfather in J.C. Nichols. This film was designed for a national PBS audience and for educational distribution. The program has aired on more than 100 PBS stations nationwide.