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IMG Pictures, the motion picture company behind “Small Town, USA,” recently produced a 30 minute television show called “Super Materials,” a fun-filled educational program about composites and how they’re changing the world. If you live in Kansas, you can watch the broadcast on KPTS on Thursday, February 11, at 7 p.m. If you’re outside Kansas, you can view the full program online until it comes to a PBS affiliate near you.
Other IMG Pictures projects include the recently completed short film, “Denial,” which is in circulation on the international film festival circuit, and “The Randy Castillo Story,” a documentary now in post production.
Be sure to join our Facebook groups and fan pages to keep up with “Small Town, USA” news and other IMG Pictures projects:
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“Small Town, USA” Facebook group
“Randy Castillo Story” Facebook group
posted by Wynn Ponder
If you’ve seen “March of the Penguins,” you’ve heard Alex Wurman’s music. He also composed the musical score for “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” and numerous other Hollywood movies. After reviewing our film proposal and trailer last week, he graciously agreed to add “Small Town, USA” to his list of credits.
Posted by Kirby Ross
Hot Wheels fans walk in line to receive their special edition Hot Wheels car as Director of Photography Nick Unruh and Writer/Producer Wynn Ponder film the event for "Small Town USA".
In case anybody was skeptical regarding whether it is possible to catch lightning in a bottle twice, the people of Phillips County, Kansas, answered that question a few weeks ago.
Posted by Wynn Ponder
The “Small Town, USA” website is up, with only a few “coming soon” spots. I’m particularly excited about the Webisodes link on the “About The Film” page. This will soon be home to daily and weekly uploads of footage we shoot in communities around the state. There are so many great stories in rural Kansas that we can’t possibly fit them all into a single movie, but we can make them visible on the world wide web. Some of these webisodes may also appear on the finished DVD as Special Features.
If you haven’t seen the movie preview yet, go to the home page and click on “Watch The Preview Trailer Now” to see the tone and style we’ll bring to the big screen. The trailer also shows the kinds of amazing people we’ve met during the past couple of months of shooting … Kansans with a vision–and a deep love–for rural America.
Be sure to go to the “Contribute” page and click on “Web Links” for rural community resources. Please email any links you’d like to see added. To share stories for possible use in the film, click “Contribute Stories” on the same page. Click on “Not Sure What To Write?” to find out what types of stories we’re looking for.
Also, please do chime in with your comments on this or any other blog article. It’s easy: just click on the title of the article you’d like to comment on, then scroll to the bottom of the page and fill in the blanks. Don’t be shy; this film, website and blog are for all of us.
“The Midwest’s image is framed by people on both coasts, folks who look down their noses on backward “cow towns” like Chicago. It is especially a problem in the news media. I am more and more convinced that the nation’s media needs to be forcibly relocated from New York City and Washington, just to see things from the perspective of a different city. I’m thinking Omaha.”
–Prof. Jay Price, Public History Program Director, Wichita State University
Posted by Wynn Ponder
LaVon’s Bakery & BBQ in Buhler. Delicious home cooking, rich with character, gorgeous setting … and don’t leave without having a piece of that banana cream pie.
