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Up to Date: First Date Goes to Sundance

Kansas City filmmaker Gary Huggins joined Up to Date host Steve Kraske recently to discuss the film First Date. It's been selected for this year's Sundance Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France. Kansas City, MO – To get FIRST DATE to Sundance there will be a benefit on Friday, January 13th from 6-9 PM at the Record Bar, 1020 Westport Rd. Free food and live music by Michael Stover and Sterling Holman will be provided; cover is $6. Plus, tickets will be available to a private screening of FIRST DATE at Screenland on February 22. The screening will be followed by a Q&A, slideshow, and outtakes. Tickets for this screening are $12.50.

Listen to the entire January 16 Up to Date, listen here.

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