We're thrilled to announce the presenters of another 2025 Workshop, and another Festival Juror! Patrick Poe and Lolo Loren, 2025 Festival Workshop Presenters bringing you a workshop on sound for film, are award-winning filmmakers and the co-founders of IX Film Productions. They host the movie trivia podcast “First Timers Movie Club”, and program and run the Bird Watching Film Festival. Together as IX Film Productions they’ve made 6 feature films and over 30 short films and won "Best Filmmaker in Kansas City" in the Pitch Magazine in both 2023 and 2024. Their newest feature film “Almost Sorta Maybe”, winner of Best Local Film at First City Film Festival and Best Heartland Feature at the KC Film Festival, is now available for streaming on demand. Their newest short film Vegan Apocalypse won Best Kansas Film at Tallgrass Film Festival 2022 and has since been an official selection at over a dozen more, including in London and New York City. They work full time professionally behind the camera on everything from narrative features, to commercials, to music videos, to reality TV. Learn tips and tricks for capturing the best on-set audio possible and get all your sound questions answered by professionals working in the field. Patrick Poe & Lolo Loren have run audio on feature films in a wide range of environments and situations, as well as working with that audio in post production to create the best soundscape possible. They have worked in the audio department on films that have received both streaming and international theatrical releases, as well as festival award winning films. Ken Spurgeon, a 2025 Festival Juror, was born and raised in Wichita. He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s from Wichita State University in History while additionally compiling hours in Secondary Education: Social Studies.
He is an Associate Professor of History at Friends University and a consultant at the Kansas Oil Museum in El Dorado, KS. He has spent over 20 years teaching at the High School and College level. Mr. Spurgeon is the author of “A Kansas Soldier at War: The Civil War Lives and Letters of Christian and Elise Dubach Isely,” published by The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2013. From 2004 until 2018, he was the Executive Director of Lone Chimney Films, Inc., a not-for-profit documentary film company dedicated to films about the Midwest. He has written or co-written and directed four documentaries. The last two films (Home on the Range and The Road to Valhalla) have earned the Western Heritage Award (Wrangler) at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 2018 and 2015. The previous three films have also aired on various PBS stations throughout the Midwest. He recently served as the writer and director for the film Sod and Stubble based on the classic tale by the same name written by John Ise with Von Rothenberger.
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