KC Filmmaker makes it big in LA, now wants to make films in KC
Bruce Branit’s 8 minute GUILDit film shows how he has always been a storyteller. He picked up computer graphics as a way to tell stories and that has led to a long and successful career in visual effects in LA and KC with six Emmy nominations for shows such as Star Trek: Voyager, Breaking Bad, Lost,
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David Basse, Talks 8/25 @ Kemper
The Kansas City Star called David Basse, “The voice of Kansas City”. And following David’s performance, poet Maya Angelou exclaimed, “I love the soul that is your voice”. His career lunged in the 80’s with a five-night gig for seven years. In the 90s he worked in L.A., which led to producing a Grammy nominated
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Nick Givechi, Talks 7/28 @ Kemper
Nick Givechi is one of the hardest working, most passionate and rapidly-rising performers in the Kansas City region — his primary focus is Spoken Word poetry, with completed projects in drawing and photography. He has lived from coast-to-coast in the past 10 years, expanding his life experiences, winning Poetry Slams in 5 states, and creating
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Hunter Long, Talks 6/2 @ Kemper
Hunter Long is a composer, performer and producer. He has been awarded grants by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation and ArtsKC. Hunter was selected as a composer for the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, the neif-norf Composition Workshop, the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, the Banff
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Paul Rudy, Talks 6/2 @ Kemper
Paul Rudy is a composer, performer, consultant and UMKC professor. He has been awarded a Fulbright, Guggenheim, Rome Prize and Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow. Paul has won the Sounds Electric Competition, EMS Prize, Citta di Udine and has received recognition and commissions from IMEB, Bourges, SEAMUS, Meet the Composer, the American Composer’s Forum, SCI, National Music
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Nicole Emanuel Talks 5/5 @ The Kemper
A painter, sculpture and arts organizer, Nicole is well known as the Founder and Executive Director of the InterUrban ArtHouse. Her other achievements include running the local Artsmart Program, plus being an NEA, and ArtsKC grants recipient. She knows no bonds, being influenced by the many places she’s spent time in, including South Africa, New York,
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Coté Munizaga Talks 5/5 @ The Kemper
Cote is a fashion and interior designer who is influenced by the places she’s lived. Chilean-born Cote comes to Kansas City after living in Israel, bringing with her a choice collection of fabrics,objects, and art from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. She continues to collect and trade unique and one of a
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KC artist’s 20 year career in a 7 minute GUILDit film
KC musician, songwriter, scriptwriter, composer and producer Christian Hankel tells his story @ GUILDit. Be inspired and learn from his successes and challenges. There are more talks like this @ GUILDit, every 1st & 3rd Thursday, noon-1pm at the Kauffman Foundation. Each talk is followed by 20 minutes of brainstorming to make art businesses even
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A ‘rockin’ GUILDit presentation
See the 7-minute presentation and 20 minutes of brainstorming from KCAI professor Kim E-M’s talk. She presents all her revenue streams, successes and challenges, then the audience helps fine-tune those ideas and provides resources to grow her art & biz. See musician and composer Christian Hankel’s 7-minuteGUILDit video: http://www.guildit.org/kc-artist-20-year-career-in-a-short-guildit-film/ Like GUILDit on Facebook, to support us
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Filmmaker Jim McCullough, Presents 9/3
New Addition: Jim McCullough of IgnitionFX has a new sci-fi thriller ‘Paradox City’ which has received awards from Digitalmation and Los Angeles’ CineFest, to name a few. His past award winning films include ‘In Captivity’ and ‘Aliens Wonderland’. Commercially he just completed visual effects for the latest Ariana Grande music video and worked on an
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