The annual Tallgrass Film Festival will be taking place this October 23-26.

For those of you who aren’t aware, the Tallgrass Film Fest is a richly diverse, “stubbornly independent” film festival that takes place in the heart of the country in Wichita, Kansas.

Rapidly growing in popluarity since its inception in 2003, it attracts over 6,000 visitors annually, and over 100 independent filmmakers from as far away as Norway.

The festival hands out several awards including the Ad Astra Award named after the Kansas state motto Ad Astra Per Aspera (To The Stars Through Difficulty) which is more or less a life achievement award, The Audience Award for both feature length and short films, and the Tallgrass Film Festival Official Selections.

Official Selections have included 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.

For more information and to buy tickets go here, www.tallgrassfilmfest.com.  I’ll be there!