Iowa Filmes

  • 2010
    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

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    A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer
  • 2011
    Cactua

    Cactua

    Cactua

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    A short film collaboration between director Kristian Day and make up artist Patrick Boltinghouse. Patrick had created the make up for Pride Weekend...

    Cactua
  • 2019
    The Burial

    The Burial

    The Burial

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    A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.

    The Burial
  • 2020
    Two Ways Home

    Two Ways Home

    Two Ways Home

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    Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is...

    Two Ways Home
  • 2011
    Message from Jerusalem

    Message from Jerusalem

    Message from Jerusalem

    62011HD

    Made exclusively for the Hail to the King Tribute Show at Finder Creepers in Des Moines, Iowa. A surreal and non linear adaptation of the short story...

    Message from Jerusalem
  • 2018
    Saints Rest

    Saints Rest

    Saints Rest

    6.82018HD

    A musical drama set in small-town Iowa, SAINTS REST tells the story of two estranged sisters, who over the course of one summer, form a connection...

    Saints Rest
  • 2008
    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story

    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story

    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story

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    The true story of Bill Sackter's emergence from lifelong institutionalization, to become an international hero for people with disabilities.

    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story
  • 2013
    Mysteries of the Driftless

    Mysteries of the Driftless

    Mysteries of the Driftless

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    What strange forces saved one isolated section along the Upper Mississippi River from the repeated crushing and scouring effects of glaciers during...

    Mysteries of the Driftless
  • 2014
    State of Bacon

    State of Bacon

    State of Bacon

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    State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival....

    State of Bacon
  • 2003
    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

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    Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than...

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story
  • 2010
    A Woman Who Writes

    A Woman Who Writes

    A Woman Who Writes

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    The film tells the story of a woman reflecting on a painful part of her past as she writes. Although we do not see what she has written, we do see...

    A Woman Who Writes
  • 2021
    East of Middle West

    East of Middle West

    East of Middle West

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    A teenage runaway and a widowed father each fight to take matters into their own hands to redeem their dark past.

    East of Middle West
  • 1993
    Shimmer

    Shimmer

    Shimmer

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    The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention...

    Shimmer
  • 2022
    You and Me This summer

    You and Me This summer

    You and Me This summer

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    Set in the backwoods of rural Iowa, this is Regan and Addisyn's last summer after high school. Growing up next door to each other, the girls are as...

    You and Me This summer
  • 2019
    Mushtown

    Mushtown

    Mushtown

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    It's the end of the summer of 1994 and life is about to change for two boys on a farm.

    Mushtown
  • 1995
    Alkali, Iowa

    Alkali, Iowa

    Alkali, Iowa

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    On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the...

    Alkali, Iowa
  • 2009
    Haunting Villisca

    Haunting Villisca

    Haunting Villisca

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    Professor David Salt's guilty secrets draw him to the fabled town of Villisca. Past and present collide as he is driven to help the trapped spirits...

    Haunting Villisca
  • 2021
    Citizen

    Citizen

    Citizen

    02021HD

    A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in America.

    Citizen
  • 2015
    Wrestling with Iowa

    Wrestling with Iowa

    Wrestling with Iowa

    02015HD

    The documentary follows two high school seniors as they attempt to win the State Wrestling Championship in their final season and join the elite list...

    Wrestling with Iowa
  • 2013
    James Bearden: Man of Metals

    James Bearden: Man of Metals

    James Bearden: Man of Metals

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    An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

    James Bearden: Man of Metals