independent film

As the weather gets colder, it's a great time to sit down with a bowl of popcorn and watch a movie.

Carter Rostron's "Ruth & Nick" is a sweet interpretation of a classic love theme.

Late in his career, renowned dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey forged strong connections in Kansas City, and helped found a local nonprofit. A new documentary tells his story.

A look at LGBTQ activism in Kansas City in the 1960s. Plus, with a Kansas City indie movie getting recognition in film festivals, the Film Critics update the pandemic status of festivals.

Film festivals mean a lot to independent filmmakers and to the cities and towns that host them.

2021 Academy Awards ceremony will have greater diversity than in the past.

A new survey reveals one impact the pandemic has had on Midwest artists. Plus, a look at the challenges and opportunities COVID-19 has provided the film industry.

CNN political commentator Bakari talks about race, Trump and the January 6 insurrection, and the Film Critics look at contenders for the movie industry's top prizes.

Sav Rodgers' Transgender Film Center is offering grants for filmmakers like him, in at a time when the pandemic has made making movies harder than ever.

A Kansas native is helping other transgender creators finish their films and an operatic tenor is teaming up with his family and friends for a livestream holiday variety show from Kansas City.

Shawnee Mission School District nurses have been tasked with contact tracing to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and a new documentary follows the lives of four Johnson County, Kansas, transgender children and their families.

Kansas' candidates for a U.S. Senate seat squared off, a film festival that normally happens in March ends up outdoors in October, and a Kansas City theatre brings Halloween to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.