This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Filmmaking Ghetto

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

When your guest talks about the perception of the Kansas City independent film scene and the need to step up. From our Virtual Fringe episode with Jason Turner and Andrea Dover

I hope that I'm kind of hoping that Kansas City can get into a position. I mean, and maybe this is just me. Maybe I don't know what your thoughts are on this, but it feels to me that there's a lot of fear in Kansas City. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. I feel like there's a lot of people that have these really cool ideas and really cool networks and groups that they're a part of, and then they just kind of flounder and they kind of, you know,

it's like pushing up that rock up the hill or whatever. And eventually they just say, I'm not going to do this anymore. I give up or, you know, I'm too depressed or whatever. And it's to me, and I'm just,

this is just my personal opinion. To me, it kind of puts us in a bad spot as far as creatively. Now, I'm not saying that everybody, there's a lot of talented people that are working on things. And I feel like a lot of people are afraid to collaborate. And maybe that's just a personal thing.

You know, maybe people are just like, I don't like you. I don't want to collaborate with you. And that's fine, you know, because the way I do things is not going to work for the way other people do things. So respectfully, Andrea and I and a couple other friends of ours, we've been talking about how the the local local KC area is kind of trapped and

and I don't I'm just kind of paraphrasing but somebody that I was speaking with recently kind of said that Kansas City and I think they're paraphrasing somebody else but they said that

Kansas City is kind of like a filmmaking ghetto I don't know if that's an appropriate term but I think the idea is that we're all, there's a lot of, there's a lot of people that are still kind of trapped in that hobby instead of making in a business, it's more of a hobby. And don't get me wrong, I love the hobby thing, but I've been doing this long enough that it's not really a hobby to me anymore. It's something that I really want to do. And it's, it's a struggle, but, you know, it's also encouraging to see, you know, people that are

coming up and they're asking us questions like what do you guys working on it's like well actually I'm producing something with some with some local friends and we're trying to we're trying to do something that's a little bit outside of the box maybe we'll do something that has a little bit more bite you know and again the way I do things is differently than the way other people does things so I could be completely wrong but I mean what are your thoughts on the Kansas City film scene. Well, we're definitely not Hollywood. Right.

For one. Number two, you're right. There is a lot of film talents in our city. And yeah, there are people that will go and log our heads with one another and probably shouldn't collaborate with one. But those that do, I think, have a success, big or bigger small. And I think the epitome of what to me is good or was a good KC filmmaker would probably be our late friend, Dave Barry and Brian Boy would be another good example.

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