The 2010 Grand Jury Prize winning film at the Sundance Film Festival, the locally-produced feature "Winter’s Bone," will receive its Springfield premiere on Friday May 14th at Missouri State University's Plaster Student Union Theatre. The film, based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, was shot completely on location in Taney County in 2009 and included a large number of local actors and crew. The film also won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance, and is receiving rave reviews on the film-festival circuit. Rated R for some drug material, language and violent content, it's the story of a 17 year-old Ozarks girl who sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, the family will be turned out into the Ozarks woods. Challenging her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risking her life, the girl hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. The local premiere is sponsored by the Missouri State University Film Series, with support from the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Department of Media, Journalism and Film. Admission is $15, $10 for college students with ID, and are available through MSU TIX, 836-7678 or at www.missouristatetix.com. The Springfield premiere of "Winter's Bone" is a benefit for the Missouri Film Allance of Springfield, and a local methamphetamine recovery and education program sponsored by Community Partnership. The 100-minute film will screen at 8pm on May 14, preceded by live performances at 7 by two local music groups who appear in the film: KSMU's Marideth Sisco and her band the Davis Creek Rounders, and Dirt Road Delight. Following the showing of "Winter's Bone" there will be a short panel discussion including the film's director Debora Granik, Marideth Cisco and Brooks Blevins, the Endowed Associate Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University.
