On the set of CinemaKC...
If you love film you can’t afford NOT to watch”CinemaKC,” the homegrown half-hour TV program that spotlights area filmmakers.
The show’s production values are terrifically high — even though just about everyone involved is working for free — and the locally-made short films exhibited are really, REALLY impressive.
Turns out our town has cinematic talent to burn.
Problem is, “CinemaKC” is aired late on Saturday night…not exactly a primo time slot.
Worse, often it wasn’t there when it was supposed to be.
Though I set my cable box to record “CinemaKC” episodes, on a couple of occasions I found Channel 62 had preempted the show for European soccer or some other programming. A bit irritating, that.
Bruce Branit...subject of Aug. 13 show
The good news, then, is that “CinemaKC’s” debut season is getting a redo. All 14 shows will be rebroadcast at 9:30 p.m. Saturdays starting Aug. 13 (providing, of course, that soccer doesn’t interfere) on KSMO-TV, Channel 62.
First up is one of the show’s best programs, featuring the work (“405,” “World Builder”) of special effects master Bruce Branit, whose short films reflect both his visual trickery and narrative creativity.
My former Star colleague Aaron Barnhart has called “CinemaKC” “more polished than most shows about film that air on national cable channels.”
Right on to that. Check it out.
| Robert W. Butler
Butler's Cinema Scene 
I’ve been watching Cinema KC for the past 4 weeks. It’s absolutely wonderful and entertaining, not to mention informative. Glad it’s getting some love.
I hope that Joel Feigenbaum is on it. He was the director for Knots Landing, Charmed, 7th Heaven. He is from KC, moved to LA in the 80s & 90s and early 2000’s. He moved back to KC a few years ago.