Kansas City’s filmmaking heyday was in the ’90s, and it looks like a sequel might be in the works. We sat down with five local movie-making veterans and asked them what it was like.

Kansas City was Hollywood’s new production sweetheart in the 1990s. Local producer Patti Broyles (né Watkins), who had moved to Los Angeles from Kansas City to work on feature films, got a call from then-mayor Emanuel Cleaver’s office to come home and set up a film commission office. It was 1994. “I flew back and… Continue reading Kansas City’s filmmaking heyday was in the ’90s, and it looks like a sequel might be in the works. We sat down with five local movie-making veterans and asked them what it was like.