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Music, Iowa arts, Film, Fairfield, Iowa, Fairfield First, Burt Chojnowski, Arts and Entertainment	7 Nov 2010
Iowa Films Win Big at the Wild Rose Film Festival by Burt Chojnowski	Comment (0)

I just back from the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines last night. It is a week-long affair that runs through November 11 at the best movie theater in Iowa, the Fleur Cinema and Cafe.

It is becoming for independent movies what the Iowa caucuses are to politics - an important launch pad.The Iowa film-making community may be small but they are a committed, passionate bunch that

Iowa arts, Film, Fairfield, Iowa, Burt Chojnowski	23 Oct 2010
Follywood Films to Play at Wild Rose Independent Film Festival by Burt Chojnowski	Comment (0)

Kora, my documentary film about a month long journey to Mount Kailash, the world's holiest mountain and source for the major rivers of Asia, has been nominated for Best Documentary, Best Iowa Film and Best Music at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival. It features music from Guru Ganesh Singh, Manish Vyas, Govinda Express and Peter Sterling. It was shoot at 15,000-20,000 feet above sea level

Film, Father Gabriel Mejia, Fairfield, Iowa	7 Apr 2010
Saving the Disposable Ones by Claudia Petrick	Comment (0)

“I’m convinced a child is not a problem. A child is an oportunity. A child has infinite potential. A child is like a shrine,” says Father Gabriel Mejia, who is the subject of a deeply moving new film, Saving the Disposable Ones.

In the mid-80s, learning that 50 milllion homeless children live in South America, Father Gabriel Mejia devoted his life to helping these kids. He says it felt like an

World, Spirituality, Rustin Larson, recycled cabin, paranormal activity, Paradise, Music, Junk food, Jane Goodall, Inspiration, independent bookstores, hauntings, Ghosts, Food, Flame skunks, Film, Fiction, Environment, Economics, Conestoga Zen, Buy Local, Books, Bollywood, Beatles, Arts and Entertainment, Abraham Lincoln	16 Feb 2010
Navigating the Neo Nar Nor Nebula by Rustin Larson	Comment (0)

He tried to remember when he was a baby. He could only visualize a Polaroid photograph of a party in his stepfather's basement. There was his mother, all legs in a mini-skirt, his biological father, clueless, and, among an assortment of other mushroom-haired men, his future stepfather licking the edge of a hand-rolled cigarette. Lots of alcohol and joints were in play, and there he was, Paul,

Theater, Iowa Theater, Iowa arts, Film, Fairfield, Iowa, Colin Gee, Christine Schrum, Arts and Entertainment	5 Sep 2009
Tiny Circus & Colin Gee by Christine Schrum	Comment (2)

I'm still here in Ontario, waiting for my U.S. visa to process, but if I were in Iowa I'd probably head to Des Moines' Art Stop next Friday (Sept. 11) to catch Tiny Circus . In a world of larger-than-life Imax movies and Loudapaloozas, this quiet little troupe of artists is bucking trends and scaling entertainment down to the tiniest of stages.

Meet Tiny Circus, a Grinnel-based

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