HIGHLIGHTS FROM FREE STATE FESTIVAL 2025 VIA CHEAP BASTARD

 Free State Festival was just this past weekend in Lawrence, KS. If you couldn't make it, here's a taste of what you missed - if you did make it, some reminders of what you saw.

  

Kevin Willmott Celebration - A Career In Clips

 I had the privilege to be asked to contribute to an event at this year's Free State Festival, "An Evening of Oscars" - honoring pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and recent Oscar🅡 winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott (he is one of the people featured in a new documentary about Micheaux, OSCAR MICHEAUX: THE SUPERHERO OF BLACK FILMMAKING). Part of that involved making a clip presentation of Kevin's film work to be shown amidst testimonials from his friends & collaborators. It was a lot of fun to do and they were received well, from what I could tell from the audience response.

So, I'm sharing them - or, more accurately, I'm sharing mostly the early versions of them; the final versions were mainly around 2 minutes (give or take) and I'm happy with them, but since I can be indulgent and self-serving in this forum, you get the benefits - You Lucky People!

Check them out via this YouTube playlist - and if you enjoy them, the full-length feature films are even BETTER - and worth searching for.

 

 

And if you can attend (with masking, of course - even though We Won Covid - Again🅡, it's still an Active Pandemic, kids), you might like some of what's coming up this weekend at FSF.