Movies: Iowa

  • 2007
    King Corn

    King Corn (2007)

    King Corn

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    King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash o...

    King Corn
  • 1990
    American Dream

    American Dream (1990)

    American Dream

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    When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage d...

    American Dream
  • 2018
    Saints Rest

    Saints Rest (2018)

    Saints Rest

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    A musical drama set in small-town Iowa, SAINTS REST tells the story of two estranged sisters, who over the course of one summer, form a connection through their shared love of music, as they grieve the recent death of their mother....

    Saints Rest
  • 2020
    Two Ways Home

    Two Ways Home (2020)

    Two Ways Home

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    Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estrange...

    Two Ways Home
  • 2014
    State of Bacon

    State of Bacon (2014)

    State of Bacon

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    State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Bacon-enthusiasts, Governor Branstad, a bacon queen, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, members of PETA, and an envoy of ...

    State of Bacon
  • 2011
    Drawings by Billy and His Friends

    Drawings by Billy and His Friends (2011)

    Drawings by Billy and His Friends

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    In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker demonstration tables" and it took almost a year to collect the artwork. All pieces were created by chance wi...

    Drawings by Billy and His Friends
  • 2003
    Jefftowne 2

    Jefftowne 2 (2003)

    Jefftowne 2

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    Jeff Towne revisited four years after the release of the original film....

    Jefftowne 2
  • 2022
    You and Me This summer

    You and Me This summer (2022)

    You and Me This summer

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    Set in the backwoods of rural Iowa, this is Regan and Addisyn's last summer after high school. Growing up next door to each other, the girls are as close as sisters. The two of them spend their summer detasseling corn at a local farm. Addisyn can't w...

    You and Me This summer
  • 2010
    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer (2010)

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer

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    A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he originally found the two photo albums and since then he has had featured exhibits around the country. Thi...

    Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer
  • 1995
    Alkali, Iowa

    Alkali, Iowa (1995)

    Alkali, Iowa

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    On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the Midwest. But things become clearer for him when he discovers via a rusty old lunch box filled with gay m...

    Alkali, Iowa
  • 2013
    Mysteries of the Driftless

    Mysteries of the Driftless (2013)

    Mysteries of the Driftless

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    What strange forces saved one isolated section along the Upper Mississippi River from the repeated crushing and scouring effects of glaciers during the last two million years? And what pre-Ice Age throwbacks survived here in this unique geologic refu...

    Mysteries of the Driftless
  • 2019
    The Burial

    The Burial (2019)

    The Burial

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    A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service....

    The Burial
  • 2019
    Mushtown

    Mushtown (2019)

    Mushtown

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    It's the end of the summer of 1994 and life is about to change for two boys on a farm....

    Mushtown
  • 2003
    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story (2003)

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

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    Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than 200 people were killed in the small village of Rio Negro, after opposing the construction of a dam, s...

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story
  • 2011
    Message from Jerusalem

    Message from Jerusalem (2011)

    Message from Jerusalem

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    Made exclusively for the Hail to the King Tribute Show at Finder Creepers in Des Moines, Iowa. A surreal and non linear adaptation of the short story "Jerusalem's Lot". It was shown for exactly one month from January 22nd, 2011 to February 22nd, 2011...

    Message from Jerusalem
  • 2011
    Cactua

    Cactua (2011)

    Cactua

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    A short film collaboration between director Kristian Day and make up artist Patrick Boltinghouse. Patrick had created the make up for Pride Weekend 2010 in Des Moines, Iowa. After the parade, he called Kristian up explaining that he was in make up an...

    Cactua
  • 2021
    Fairtown

    Fairtown (2021)

    Fairtown

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    The Iowa State Fair draws millions of people to the city of Des Moines every year. However, this film is not about the Iowa State Fair or the people who attend. It's about where they park their cars. Inspired by the classic documentary, "Heavy Metal...

    Fairtown
  • 2011
    Bird Seed

    Bird Seed (2011)

    Bird Seed

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    A short film starring Vanessa Gisselle (Mayans MC) filmed in 2009. A minor slasher shot around Des Moines, Iowa....

    Bird Seed
  • 2013
    I See What Is Here

    I See What Is Here (2013)

    I See What Is Here

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    The shots used in this piece were from first test shots with the Mobile Phone 60x microscope. Subjects included the fur of a cat, hair of a girl, a cutting board, and a ball of cat fur that was burned with an incense stick. Unfortunately, during the ...

    I See What Is Here
  • 2008
    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story

    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story (2008)

    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story

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    The true story of Bill Sackter's emergence from lifelong institutionalization, to become an international hero for people with disabilities....

    A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story