The Missouri Film Office’s new Missouri Stories Production Lab brings to life short films set in the world of winning scripts from the Missouri Stories Scriptwriting Fellowship. The writers participate as producers and experience all aspects of production. Completed films will be submitted to film festivals across the country to shine a spotlight on Missouri locations and talent. Andrea Sporcic Klund, head of the Missouri Film Office, will host a panel discussion with the writer/producers of the first three finished projects: “Boy Mom” (based on “No Man’s Land,” the winning screenplay in the 2016 Missouri Stories; filmed in Kansas City in October 2021), and “Lights” (based on “Flyover,” the winning pilot script in the 2018 Missouri Stories; filmed in Columbia in December 2021), and “Assumption” (based on “Cloister,”the winning feature film in the 2015 Missouri Stories; shot in St. Louis in July 2022). The program includes the three films and a short behind-the-scenes video about the Production Lab project.
The Showcase will offer a series of three master classes on various aspects of filmmaking.The master classes are sponsored by the Chellappa-Vedavalli Foundation.
Andrea Sporcic Klund, moderator
Andrea has been representing Missouri to the film industry for over 20 years. She has helped coordinate production logistics for 30-plus feature films and hundreds of television segments and series, including the feature films “Up in the Air,” “Winter’s Bone,” and “Gone Girl,” and the TV series “Sharp Objects” and “Ozark.” In 2014, she launched the Missouri Stories Scriptwriting Fellowship program and then in 2021 the Missouri Stories Production Lab. Before joining the film office, she spent eight years with Cinema St. Louis, the producers of the St. Louis International Film Festival.
Meg Phillips Crespy, “Lights” writer/producer
Meg is a Missouri-based writer and composer. In addition to numerous plays and musicals, she has authored a book and a web series. Her full-length play “Mostly Sweet” was selected as part of Cherry Lane Theatre’s “Tongues” series in 2013, and she was named a Fellow in the 2018 Missouri Stories International Screenwriting Competition with a TV pilot she wrote based on that play.
Michelle Davidson, “Boy Mom” co-writer/producer
Michelle is a five-time regional Emmy Award-winning writer, director, producer, TV host,and actor. Her film work includes co-writing with director Patrick Rea the feature film “Arbor Demon,” which starred Fiona Dourif and Jake Busey. The thriller had a limited North American theatrical release through Gravitas Ventures. Michelle was a writer on Seasons 3 and 4 of the CBS family-friendly TV show “The Inspectors.”
Jeffrey Field, “Boy Mom” co-writer/producer
Jeffrey is a six-time Academy Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist for his solo scripts “Don’t Go There” (2019), “Waiting Games” (2018), “Jacksonville” (2014), “Bobby da Bomb and the Short Putts” (2013), and “Pop Hit” (2012) and for “No Man’s Land,” co-written with Michelle Davidson. He was the 2015 ScreenCraft Fellowship winner, the 2012 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Bronze Prize winner for Drama, a 2015 Slamdance Screenplay Competition finalist, and the first-ever winner of the PAGE Fellowship to the Stowe Story Labs in Stowe, Vt.
Peter Hanrahan, “Assumption” writer
Peter Hanrahan received his MFA in Playwriting from Rutgers University and graduated with a BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis (Phi Beta Kappa). As a working screenwriter, he has several original screenplay projects in development, including The Lowlands, which is in pre-production with actors John Leguizamo and Alfred Molina attached. He placed among the top 30 entrants in the Nicholl Fellowship Competition, and he has written for television for NBC and the Discovery Channel. He continues to serve as a consultant for UTA, as well as for Village Roadshow Entertainment. He writes for Script Magazine and serves on the Advisory Board of Script Hop, an innovative software platform for screenwriters. He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he facilitates the Scriptwriting Program at Webster University.
