Iowa Movies

The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention...

A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.

A teenage runaway and a widowed father each fight to take matters into their own hands to redeem their dark past.

Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try...

Deep river valleys, tall limestone bluffs sawing through the sky… thousands of years ago, this unique portion of the Midwest escaped the...

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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.

A self portrait filmed with a modified PXL 2000 Camcorder. The camcorder itself records on to audio cassette tape. The tapes themselves are recycled...

King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden,...

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...

A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in America.

The film tells the story of a woman reflecting on a painful part of her past as she writes. Although we do not see what she has written, we do see...

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

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

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...

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...