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May 12, 2009
IDFG takes gold with “Drop Gun”
Des Moines, IA – “Drop Gun,”
a short film produced by the Iowa Digital Filmmakers Guild and
Mississippi Films, Inc., was awarded six statues at the 2009 Iowa
Motion Picture Association Awards, held May 8 at the Renaissance
Savery Hotel in Des Moines.
The 12-minute crime drama, a collaboration
between Iowa City-based IDFG and the Burlington producers of “Beneath
the Mississippi,” won Awards of Excellence for Best Actress,
Jennifer Fontaine; Best Director, Lonnie Schuyler; Best Director
of Photography, Eric Dean Freese; and Best Editor, Phillip Manke.
The film also earned Awards of Achievement
in Short Form Entertainment Program (Bruce Heppner-Elgin and Tim
Anderson, producers, Lewayne White, writer) and Lighting Design
(Eric Dean Freese, DP, Jon Van Allen, Gaffer).
Drop Gun follows Detective Reynolds (Fontaine) in her pursuit
to bring serial pedophile Martin (Matthew Brewbaker) to justice.
When a young girl is assaulted, vengeance consumes Reynolds and
she confronts Martin, her finger on the trigger of a drop gun.
Additional cast include: Alexis Anderson,
“Young Reynolds,” Scott Blow “Father,”
Bruce Heppner-Elgin, “Davis,” May Anderson, “Ellie
Peters.” Additional crew include: Mark Britton, camera operator;
Stan Parker, 2nd assistant camera; Jason Bolinger, grip; Terry
Daily, grip; Martin Pauley and Adam Moritz, sound recorders/mixers;
Dan Holmes, boom operator; Pat Atkinson, propmaster; Lindsay Kusmierek,
assistant propmaster; and Mike Saunders, visual effects.
Drop Gun recently won the Gold Eddy for Professional Short Film
at the 2009 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival, held April
4 at Collins Road Theatres in Marion, Iowa.
The official movie web site is www.dropgunfilm.com.
About the Iowa
Digital Filmmakers Guild
The IDFG was formed by a group of filmmakers to share their talents
and draw on each other’s knowledge, skills and connections
in their efforts at making films. The organization is dedicated
to promoting filmmaking in Iowa and to building a community of
and for digital filmmakers. The IDFG helps with the production
and promotion of the members’ creations and development
of venues for independent film in Iowa through group screenings
and film festivals and through improving distribution channels.
The IDFG is open to all Iowans working in film in some capacity,
or who want to get involved. The group’s website is www.idfg.org.
About the IMPA
The Iowa Motion Picture Association is a professional organization
that promotes and enhances the talents and skills of the state’s
film, video and multimedia production community; builds and maintains
an infrastructure including education, outreach, and training;
and promotes collaboration and networking for project financing,
production and distribution. The Iowa Motion Picture Awards are
given in recognition of outstanding creative and technical achievement
in Iowa’s moving image production industry, in all its forms.
The IMPA’s web site is www.impa.tv.
About Mississippi
Films Inc.
Mississippi Films Inc. was formed in Eldridge, Iowa by former
television actor Lonnie Schuyler (Melrose Place, Models, Inc.)
and executive producer Tim Anderson. In 2004 they set out to produce
the arthouse thriller, “Beneath the Mississippi,”
which won the Audience Choice and Pro-Am Feature Eddy Awards at
the 2008 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival."
March 12, 2009
"Drop Gun" is Official Selection
for the 2009 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival
Cedar Rapids, IA – "Drop Gun,"
a short film produced by the Iowa Digital Filmmakers Guild and
Mississippi Films, Inc, has been selected for screening at the
2009 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival, April 3-4 at the
Collins Road Theatres, Marion Iowa. The film will be shown twice
over the weekend, and compete for prizes to be given at the Eddy
Awards Ceremony Saturday Night. Visit http://www.crifm.org/festival.html
for a complete Festival schedule and ticket information.
Mississippi Films, Inc. won the Gold Eddy
for Pro-Am Feature and Audience Choice Eddy at the 2008 Festival,
with "Beneath the Mississippi."
November 1, 2008
"Drop Gun" feature-length
film optioned
Burlington, IA – Tim Anderson of Mississippi
Films Inc. has optioned the film rights to "Drop Gun"
penned by Lewayne White of Des Moines. Jennifer Fontaine (Look,
Glass Houses) has signed on to play a lead role. Anderson hopes
to start pre-production on 'Drop Gun' in early 2009.
White submitted a short script for "Drop
Gun" to an Iowa Digital Filmmakers Guild competition in spring
2008. The short film, co-produced by the IDFG and Mississippi
Films Inc., and starring Fontaine and Matt Brubaker, was shot
in June 2008 and is currently being submitted to film festivals.
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