Tallgrass Film Festival
The Tallgrass Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Wichita, Kansas, specializing in independent films.
It was founded in 2003 by Timothy Gruver.
Gruver was raised in Wichita.
He studied filmmaking at Brigham Young University.
After college, Gruver worked for the animation wing of Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio.
Gruver had worked for other film festivals and modeled Tallgrass after the Telluride Film Festival.
Tallgrass is operated by the non-profit organization Tallgrass Film Association.
There were 190 features and shorts screened in 2012.
The festival takes place at several locations in downtown Wichita including the Orpheum Theatre.
In 2012, over 11,000 people attended.
Since its creation in 2003, over 100,000 people have attended with approximately 200 filmmakers, actors and guests coming in for the festival from all over the world.
The 2003 festival screened 40 features and 55 short films at several venues in the downtown& Oldtown area.
4,172 people attended the festival, including 28 filmmakers.
The first public event hosted by Tallgrass was a screening of Y Tu Mama Tambien in Dodge City, KS.
Academy Award nominee Gary Busey attended in conjunction with the screening of The Buddy Holly Story, a documentary.
Cloris Leachman was a guest at the 2004 Festival.
That year's festival included 24 feature films and 32 short films.
Former baseball star Jose Canseco introduced the Opening Night Movie, the baseball documentary Up For Grabs.
The 2005 Festival was shortened to a one- day event due to the death of Gruver.
2,500 people attended.
4,850 people attended the 2007 Festival, including ten filmmakers.
Official Selections have included Audience Award winners
The Big Bad Swim and 39 Pounds of Love; as well as the 2006 Independent Spirit Award winner Conventioneers, the 2007 Independent Spirit Award nominee Trials of Darryl Hunt as well as Bomb The System, Manhattan, Kansas, Dreamland, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Fat Girls, Iraq in Fragments, The Last Picture Show, The Buddy Holly Story and the popular High School Shorts Program and Timothy Gruver Spotlight on Kansas Filmmakers.
2003 Opening Night Film: Bomb The System 2004 Opening Night Film: Up For Grabs 2005( Shortgrass)
Opening Night Film: Conventioneers 2006 Opening Night Film: Manhattan, Kansas 2007 Opening Night Film: Kansas v. Darwin 2008 Opening Night Film: What's the Matter with Kansas?
2009 Opening Night Film: The Only Good Indian 2010 Opening Night Film: The Dry Land 2011 Opening
Night Film: Der Sandmann 2012 Opening
Night Film: Pablo 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Opening
Night Film: Bathtubs Over Broadway
Who Are You (disambiguation)
Who Are You is a 1978 album by The Who.
Who Are You also may refer to:
Dorothy McGowan
Dorothy McGowan( sometimes credited as Dorothy MacGowan, born circa 1939) is a Brooklyn, New York- born former model and actress.
As a model McGowan appeared on numerous covers of" VogueHarper's BazaarElleGlamour", and other publications in the 1960s.
She was photographed by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Francesco Scavullo, and others.
A daughter of Irish immigrants Sarah and Michael McGowan and born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, she had one sister, Mary, and two brothers, Peter( 1930 – 2007), a policeman who became a Roman Catholic priest, and James, a policeman whose role as lead negotiator in a hostage crisis was dramatized in the film" Dog Day Afternoon".
McGowan was one of photographer William Klein's favorite models.
After the release of his film" Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?", in which she starred, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again.
She was married to, and divorced, from photographer Didier Dorot, with whom she has two children.
In 2007 Dorothy Dorot was living in Mamaroneck, New York.
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
is a 1966 French film directed by William Klein.
It is a satirical art house movie spoofing the fashion world and its excesses.
It stars Dorothy McGowan as supermodel Polly Maggoo being followed by a French television crew.
It also stars Grayson Hall as Miss Maxwell, a fashion magazine editor modeled after Diana Vreeland, and Philippe Noiret as the TV reporter and director.
Also appearing in the film are Jean Rochefort, Sami Frey, and Alice Sapritch.
McGowan was an Irish- American model prior to the film; she modeled for" Vogue" and" Harper's Bazaar".
After the release of the film, which was McGowan's first and only film role, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again, according to Klein.
Mother Night (film)
Mother Night is a 1996 American romantic war drama film produced and directed by Keith Gordon.
It is based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel of the same name.
Nick Nolte stars as Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American who moves with his family to Germany after World War I and goes on to become a successful German language playwright.
As World War II looms, Campbell meets a man who claims to be from the United States Department of War, and is recruited to spy for the U.S., transmitting Nazi propaganda containing hidden messages that can only be decoded by Allied intelligence.
After the war, Campbell relocates to New York City, where he attempts to live in obscurity.
Since the Americans keep his true war time role a closely guarded secret, Campbell is forced to live under an assumed identity.
The film is narrated by Campbell, through a series of flashbacks, as he sits in a jail cell in Israel, writing his memoirs, and awaiting trial for war crimes.
The film also stars Sheryl Lee, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Frankie Faison.
Vonnegut makes a brief appearance in a scene in New York City.
Keith Gordon
Keith Gordon( born February 3, 1961) is an American actor and film director.
Where Are You
Where Are You may refer to:
Mother Night (comics)
Mother Night is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Who Are You (Emine Sari song)
" Who Are You" is a song by Turkish singer/ songwriter Emine Sari.
It was written by Emine for her single" Who Are You"( 2012), while production was helmed by Çağrı Açıkgöz.
The single was released via digital download on 18 June 2012.
Recorded in Turkey, Istanbul.
Musically," Who Are You" is a mid- tempo jazz/ swing style song.
The song received very positive reviews from music critics, who complimented her vocals and lyrics in the song.
Emine Sari Wons
Best Unsigned Act at Mp3 Music Awards' 2013 with her song" Who Are You".
William Klein (photographer)
William Klein( born April 19, 1928) is an American- born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography.
He was ranked 25th on" Professional Photographer" s list of 100 most influential photographers.
Klein trained as a painter, studying under Fernand Léger, and found early success with exhibitions of his work.
He soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for" Vogue" and for his photo essays on various cities.
He has directed feature- length fiction films, numerous short and feature- length documentaries and has produced over 250 television commercials.
He has been awarded the Prix Nadar in 1957, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship( Hon FRPS) in 1999, and the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards in 2012.

Question: Are the directors of films Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? and Mother Night (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes