Film keeps hope at end of world

Using a little computer magic, “Dystopia 2013” is able to create a post-apocalyptic world. / Zomular Media

Using a little computer magic, “Dystopia 2013” is able to create a post-apocalyptic world. / Zomular Media

By: Linda Leicht
Published: March 2, 2012
Springfield News-Leader.com

“Dystopia” director focuses on redemption and keeping the faith

Johnno Zee doesn’t really expect civilization to implode on Dec. 21 when the Mayan calendar ends, but he has certainly thought about what life might be like if it did.

Zee and his Zomular Media production company developed a film that looks beyond the mythical doomsday scenario to consider what might happen afterward. “Dystopia 2013” takes the viewer into the post-apocalyptic possibilities, right here in the Ozarks.
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Nixa graduate moves to Hollywood

By: Amelia Wigton, associate editor ameliaw@ccheadliner.com

Originally printed at http://ccheadliner.com/news/nixa-graduate-moves-to-hollywood/article_bfb05c6a-3632-11e1-a14c-0019bb2963f4.html

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

Nixa graduate Cody Brown said this Shakespeare quote is one he lives by.
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“Winter’s Bone” Wins Best Feature and Best Ensemble Performance at Gotham Awards

“Winter’s Bone” Leads 2010 Gotham Award Winners.
Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” led the 20th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, which were announced tonight at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. Though the film’s star Jennifer Lawrence was snubbed in the breakthrough performance category (one of the night’s biggest surprises), the film ended up winning both Best Feature and Best Ensemble performance.

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An Ozarks Alice In A Meth-Battered Wonderland

By: Ella Taylor

Published:
Friday, June 10, 2010

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127536626

Writer-director Debra Granik made her film debut in 2004 with a fact-based, verite-style feature about a young mother grappling with drug addiction in a dreary blue-collar backwater of upstate New York. Perhaps because it ran against the grain of inveterate American optimism, the grimly persuasive Down to the Bone didn’t last long in theaters. But it lit a fire under the career of its electrifying lead, a relative unknown named Vera Farmiga, who last year won an Academy Award nomination for her drily witty turn as George Clooney’s sometime lover in Up in the Air.

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