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7:30 p.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas, Manor Square, 4050 Pa.

Opening Night -- Kansas City Filmmaker Premieres:

• "Intersection"
• "Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place"
• "Guardians of the Book"
• "A Better Mousetrap"
• "James Ellroy's Stay Clean"
• "Baptized at the Lucky Lube"
• "The Good Things"

Thursday, April 5

5 p.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Award winning television programming:

• "Uniquely Kansas City" -- KCPT19
• "Kansas City Crossroads" -- KSHB 41
• "Rare Visions and Roadside Rarities" -- KCTV19

7:30 p.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Screening -- Competition Short Films/Short Stories:

• "W.A.H.M.O"
• "The Keys Are in the Car"
• "Parallax"
• "John: One Way"
• "President Steve Elvis America -- Terrible Cosmic Death"
• "The Confession"
• "Robots"
• "Tex, the Passive Aggressive Gunslinger"
• "Lint People"
• "Stanley"
• "Talk To You Later"
• "Big Canyon"

Friday, April 6

9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. -- UMKC University Center, Room 106

Academic Film Conference:

9:30 a.m. -- Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way Keynote Speaker: Lary May

11 a.m.-Noon/Student presentations on film theory and history

1 p.m.--4 p.m./Student presentations on film theory and history

5 p.m. -- Atkins Auditorium, Nelson--Atkins Museum of Art

Screening & Seminar -- Austin Texas Animation:

Bob Sabiston, Flat Black Productions

• "Project Incognito," "Roadhead," "Snack and Drink," "Figures of Speech" and scenes from "Waking Life"

7 p.m. -- Atkins Auditorium

Screening -- Feature: "Benjamin Smoke "

Filmmaker -- Peter Sillen

7 p.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Screening -- Feature: "Bruce Lee -- A Warrior's Journey"

Filmmaker -- John Little

9:30 p.m. -- Dirt Gallery, 1323 Union, KCMO (West Bottoms/near Kemper Arena)

Screening -- Kansas City Underground:

• "Dance 5000"
• "Leona"
• "The Keys Are in the Car"
• "Blue in Green"
• "Box Stick Hole"
• "Me Shel: Dog Sitting"
• "Family Production Values"
• "High Score"
• "Recipe for Botulism"
• "Eating Crap"
• "The Interview"
• "Faith & Betrayal"
• "Band -- Snakebite Orphans will be playing"

9:30 p.m. -- Science City, Union Station -- Extreme Screen

Screening -- Feature: "Before Sunrise"

Executive Producer -- John Sloss

Cinematographer -- Lee Daniel

Saturday, April 7

9 a.m. -- UMKC, University Center, Room 106

Screening & Seminar -- Rabbits, Remus and Race: Considering Walt Disney's Song of the South

Michael Sweeny, Dr. Gregory Black, Dr. Tom Poe, Mitch Brian, Kevin Willmott and Dr. Lary May

10 a.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Screening -- Competition Short Films -- Experimental:

• "Leona"
• "Haptic Nerve"
• "Bailar"
• "Pleasureland"
• "Three Lives of Kate"
• "Helicopter"

Noon -- Tivoli Cinemas

Screening -- "Evolution of British Animation"

BolexBrothers -- Dave Borthwick

Aardman Animation -- Dave Alex Riddett

2 p.m. -- City Stage, Science City

Seminar -- British Animation

BolexBrothers -- Dave Borthwick

Aardman Animation -- Dave Alex Riddett

2 p.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Screening -- Competition shorts -- The Classics:

• "Screw Your Courage"
• "The Internationale"
• "Speed for Thespians"

4 p.m. -- Science City

Demo -- Animation Software

Alias/Wavefront -- Maya

NewTek -- Lightwave

4 p.m. -- Westport Coffeehouse, 4010 Pa

Seminar -- Directing the Short Film

Seth Wiley, Mitch Brian, Dave Hodes, Tony Ladesich, Peter Sillen and Andy Anderson,

5 p.m. -- Westport Coffeehouse

Seminar -- How to Get Your Film Seen: Festivals and Marketing

Alex Nohe, Steve Montal and Andy Anderson

6 p.m. -- Westport Coffeehouse

Seminar -- Financial, Legal and Distribution Aspects of Filmmaking John Sloss

7 p.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Presented by Independent Film Channel

Screening -- Feature: "Our Song"

Filmmaker -- Jim McKay

9:30 p.m. -- Extreme Screen -- Science City

Screening -- Feature: "The Burning Man -- The Burning Sensation"

Filmmaker -- Alex Nohe

Sunday, April 8

10 a.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Screening -- Competition Short Films -- Youth & Low Budget:

• "Portraits in Moonlight & Sunlight"
• "Day with John"
• "Drifters Depart"
• "The Emperor's New Clothes"
• "Family Production Values"
• "Prologue"
• "Two Ships in the Day"
• "A Piano Thing"
• "Rejected"

12 p.m. -- Tivoli Cinemas

Screening -- Feature: "The Private Public"

Filmmaker -- Dana Altman

2 p.m. -- Tivol Cinemas

Screening -- Competition Short Films -- Dance/Music/Visual:

• "Tango Kansas City: An Experiment in Dance, Music"
• "Drumba"
• "I Will Dance (So High)"
• "Bug Bar Rhapsody"
• "Killing Time"
• "Pershing"
• "I See the Field"
• "Visualization"
• "Be Careful What You Wish For"
• "A Film By . . ."
• "How Do You Feel"
• "Luce. Tempo. Roma"
• "Boing"
• "Observations in Holland: Best in Beef"

4 p.m. -- Classic Cup Westport, 4010 Pa.

Jubilee Awards -- Hosted by UMKC, KCAI & MO Film Commission

Master of Ceremonies: T. Max Graham

Jubilee Celebration Award

KC Metro Winning Film Awards

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