Welcome to the Great Wonders Uplift Film Fest!!

Schedule of Events:

January 9, 2025

1:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Registration and Check-in
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Meet and Greet
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Film Screening Block #1

- Block #1 Introduction (0:5:00)
- Flip (0:09:06)
- Monstrosity - From Dunks to Trucks (0:26:46)
- With You (0:11:47)
- Midnight's Ghost (0:04:44)
- Father's Love is Like a Mountain (0:14:11)
- Intermission
- Voices of the Ogahpah (0:50:00)

January 10, 2025

9:00 am - 4:00 pm: Registration and Check-in
9:00 am - 12:00 pm: Film Screening Block #2

- Block #2 Introduction (0:5:00)
- I'm So Glad - Kansas City and the Roots of Black Gospel  (1:57:57)
- Intermission
- Gateway to a New Life (0:54:00

1:00 pm - 1:50 pm: Filmmaker Roundtable
2:00 pm - 4:50 pm: Film Screening Block #3

- Block #3 Introduction
- Terminal (02:48:24)

5:00 pm - 5:50 pm: Workshop: TBA‍
7:30 pm - 10:30pm: Film Screening Block #4

- Block #4 Introduction (0:5:00)
- Greenwood (0:16:47)
- Trauma: The New Epidemic (0:32:56)
- Life of Trees (0:06:05)
- Kerry's Last 100 (0:05:22)
‍- Intermision
- Hope Lives Here (0:15:07)
- Shadow of Guilt (0:09:36)
- #Dad Life (0:03:58)‍
- Interlude (0:13:44)
- The Broken Door (0:11:15)
- After Taste (0:16:36: Mature Theme
- Shift (0:17:15) Mature Theme

January 11, 2025

9:00 am - 03:00 pm: Registration and Check-in
9:00 am - 11:50 pm: Film Screening Block #5

- Block #5 Introduction (0:5:00)
- Eden's Twilight (0:01:56)
- Intermission
- Doom and Despair (0:21:13)
- Small Town Girl (0:30:00)

1:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Film Screening Block #6

- Block #6 Introduction (0:5:00)
- Combined  (0:18:55)
- Sugarhouse (2:04:00)

3:30 pm - 05:25 pm: SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW FILM
5:30 pm - 06:45 pm: QandA Time With Kevin Downes

8:00 pm - 10:30 pm: Awards Night Event

Harry M. Cornell Arts and Entertainment Center, 212 West 7th Street, Joplin, MO 64801

08:00 pm: Red Carpet Arrival Reception - Hors d'oeuvres
08:30 pm: Welcome-Sponsor Thank You
08:45 pm: Kevin Downes
09:15 pm: Short Intermission
09:30 pm: Awards Presentation
10:30 pm - 10:45 pm: Close approximation

10:45 pm - 12:00 am: After Party Mixer

Club 609, 609 S. Main Street, Joplin, MO 64801

Date: January 9 - 11, 2025

Location: Various Venues In Webb City, MO

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