St. Louis Filmworks

06/02/2026

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For the first time in QFest history the Hi-Pointe Theatre will host the live taping of a tv show! CLOSET SPACE is a dating show for sapphics and other queer-identifying individuals.

Tickets are available at https://festivals.cinemastlouis.org/qfest2026/.

To learn more about CLOSET SPACE go to closetspacetv.com.

ALSO, after party at PLATYPUS!

05/29/2026

Most creative opportunities don’t start with a perfect plan.

They start with curiosity.
A conversation.
A random invitation.
A decision to show up.

Tonight we’re getting a firsthand look at virtual production, Unreal Engine workflows, real-time environments, LED volume technology, and the kinds of tools that are changing how stories get made.

Whether you’re a filmmaker, actor, writer, editor, producer, composer, content creator, student, or simply curious about what’s happening in St. Louis film and media…

There’s a place for you in the room.

And yes… if Meetup has been aggressively trying to recruit you into a subscription plan, you can safely ignore it. 😅

Just show up.

🎬 St. Louis Filmworks Meetup
📍 Kre8 Spaces | 2035 Washington Ave
🕕 6PM–9PM
🎟️ Free Event

RSVP at slfw.org/meetups

05/26/2026

Creative communities grow because somebody decided to show up.

If we all waited until everything was perfect, figured out, funded, polished, or “ready”…
nothing would ever get made.

Films start with conversations, collaborations start with people & momentum starts when somebody walks into the room.

This Friday, St. Louis Filmworks is bringing creatives together for another meetup featuring a live LED Volume Demo with Arch Portal Industries, tours of Kre8 Spaces, networking, refreshments, and a chance to connect with filmmakers, artists, storytellers, crew, actors, editors, producers, and creative humans from across the region.

Whether you’re deep in the industry, just getting started, or simply curious about where film and media are headed…

There’s room for you here.

🎬 SLFW Meetup
📍 2035 Washington Ave.
🗓️ Friday, May 29
⏰ 6PM–9PM
🎟️ Free Event

RSVP at:
http://www.slfw.org/meetups
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05/25/2026

Thoughts?!

Kristen Stewart is officially done playing by Hollywood's traditional rules. 🎬🔥🕶️

The Oscar-nominated actress and filmmaker has laid out a refreshingly blunt, DIY vision for her next directorial project. Frustrated by the endless red tape, financing delays, and corporate gatekeeping of standard studio systems, the Love Lies Bleeding star revealed that she’s bypasssing the mainstream machine altogether for her next venture:

“My goal is to make something for really nothing with my friends before the end of the year and put it on f*cking YouTube... I just don’t want to talk to these bros anymore.”

By taking matters into her own hands, she intends to funnel any potential revenue from her indie internet projects directly back into her future films, creating a self-sustaining creative pipeline entirely on her own terms. Her motivation comes down to a deep desire to simply create without artistic compromise:

Embracing the Weird: While she maintains a deep love for cinema, Stewart openly admitted she has zero interest in sanitizing her ideas to fit a mass-market template. "I want to make weird sh*t. And I’m fully OK doing that in a kind of insulated, bizarre way," she explained.

Refusing to Wait: Rather than spending years pitching executives for tiny fractions of a blockbuster budget, her focus is on immediate action. "I don’t want to do the thing where I wait five years for someone to give me $1 million to make something," she added. "I’m going to make it f*cking tomorrow."

From indie darling to high-fashion icon, she has consistently proven that she is most compelling when she is operating entirely outside the box. If this means we are getting a raw, unfiltered Kristen Stewart passion project dropped directly onto our subscription feeds by the end of the year, consider us completely sat! 🍿🛋️👑

05/23/2026

What say you SLFW tribe?

Four street thieves are on the road to hell, literally, in an action-adventure movie debuting at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday. But what’s compelling about “Hell Grind” isn’t the campy plot: It’s that every character, setting and prop in the 95-minute movie was generated by AI.

Startup Higgsfield AI took just two weeks to make the film, and spent $500,000—80% of which went to compute costs.

For the three-year-old San Francisco-based startup, the finished film is essentially a showcase, designed to sell Hollywood studios on the quality of its AI products.

And it debuts as the debate around AI and filmmaking is changing—at least at Cannes.

(Corrects headline on previous image, now updated, that incorrectly said the movie made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival.)

Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/49MjT7n