Iowa Movies

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...

Professor David Salt's guilty secrets draw him to the fabled town of Villisca. Past and present collide as he is driven to help the trapped spirits...

A short film starring Vanessa Gisselle (Mayans MC) filmed in 2009. A minor slasher shot around Des Moines, Iowa.

A quiet ukeleleist and his talkative manager struggle to realize their artistic vision in this comic story of loss and friendship.

Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than...

A Local Iowa documentary about the history of trophy to the Cy-Hawk games.

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...

Garden of Des Moines is an intimate interview-style short film that follows drag performers in Iowa as they navigate the challenges of being queer in...

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...

The true story of Bill Sackter's emergence from lifelong institutionalization, to become an international hero for people with disabilities.

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...

Track Guy Movie chronicles the career of passionate, renowned track and field announcer, Mike Jay. Through the course of an Iowa high school track &...

The documentary follows two high school seniors as they attempt to win the State Wrestling Championship in their final season and join the elite list...