Rivertown Film

10/15/2026

In Legal, at Rivertown Film on October 21, a young Colombian actress and single mother leaves everything behind to pursue her career and dreams in America, and spends all her savings on an agency that promises her a visa and a contract in New York City. She soon realizes she has been scammed.

Meet the Filmmaker, actress and producer Jennifer Arenas who left her home country to pursue her dreams.

Immigrant Artist? Please use the discount code "legal" online or at the door for $5 tickets.

An annual screening presented with the Global Film Series of the Justice Studies Institute at St. Thomas Aquinas College in recognition of National Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month.

Welcome to Rivertown Film DONATEBECOME A MEMBER Upcoming Films and Events 25th YEAR SPECIAL EVENT Kansas City Directed by Robert AltmanWith Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry BelafonteUSA, 1996, 116 minutes Wednesday, September 307:30 p.m. at The Nyack Center View Trailer GET TICKETS Me...

10/13/2026

In Legal, at Rivertown Film on October 21, a young Colombian actress and single mother leaves everything behind to pursue her career and dreams in America, and spends all her savings on an agency that promises her a visa and a contract in New York City. She soon realizes she has been scammed.

Meet the Filmmaker, actress and producer Jennifer Arenas who left her home country to pursue her dreams.

An annual screening at Rivertown Film presented with the Global Film Series of the Justice Studies Institute at St. Thomas Aquinas College in recognition of National Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month.

10/07/2026

Celebrate the power of art and 25 years of Rivertown Film at Inspired, a benefit for Rivertown Film, Saturday Oct. 10 at 7:00 p.m, when 14 artists discuss their inspirations with 10 slides and 20 seconds per slide. It's a wild, fast paced evening, and this year the artists have all be involved in the world of film. Buy tickets now at rivertownfilm dot com or risk being left out!

10/06/2026

They inspire us, but what inspires them? Inspired, a benefit for Rivertown Film, 14 artists who work in film use ten slides for 20 seconds each to tell us what inspires them. This Saturday, Oct. 10. 7:00 p.m.

Shar Adrias - filmmaker, dance educator
Pascal Akesson - Lens based storyteller
Nicolas Behson - director, cinematographer, musician
Louis Cancelmi - actor
Predrag Dubravcic - photographer, cinematographer
Charles Caster-Dudzik - artist, filmmaker, production designer
Gina Duncan - CEO of The Moth
Anthony Geathers - filmmaker, musician, podcast producer
Leni Hanley - videomaker
Shaunqui Harris - actor, filmmaker
Mort Korn - key grip
Beverly Miller - scenic artis
Paula Schwartz - musician, filmmaker
Kaitlyn Foley VanderMaas - filmmaker, educator

10/04/2026

People who create are inspirations to us all. But what inspires them? Find out at Rivertown Film’s Inspired, a benefit for Rivertown Film on Saturday, Oct. 10. Local artists share the sources of their inspiration, each using ten slides and 20 seconds per slide to explain them.

This year, in honor of Rivertown Film's 25 anniversary, the artists are all involved in the art of motion pictures.

Join us for a fast-paced night of creativity and enjoy the many ways that artists find inspiration. Doors open at 7:00 PM. The program begins at 7:30 PM. Arrive early for a complimentary dessert buffet and to give yourself time to bid on our silent auction and raffle items. Stay afterward and mingle with the artists.

Our MC this year is comedian and her mother, actress and comedian wannabe MARSHA LUSTIG.
Click the ticket link to see the names of the artists, learn more about them, and to purchase tickets.

09/29/2026

Meet the Filmmakers: Music producer Steven Bernstein and tenor saxophone player Craig Handy (playing Coleman Hawkins), who have both taken classic jazz and reimagined it for modern times, will join producer Matthew Seig for a discussion about the music in this rarely seen film.

Featuring twenty of the best jazz musicians of the 1990s:
Craig Handy, Don Byron, Ron Carter, Christian McBride, Tyrone Clarke, Olu Dara, Nicholas Payton, James Zollar, James Carter, David Murray, Joshua Redman, Victor Lewis, Curtis Fowlkes, Clark Gayton, Jesse Davis, David “Fathead” Newman, Geri Allen, Cyrus Chestnut, Russell Malone, Mark Whitfield, and Kevin Mahogany.

In Kansas City, at Rivertown Film on September 30., iconic director Robert Altman pays tribute to his hometown in 1934, its raucous musicians, and its legendary political corruption in one of his most underrated and idiosyncratic films. USA, 1996, 116 minutes.

* Cannes Film Festival nominee: Palm d’Or
* LA Film Critics Association: Best Music
* NY Film Critics Circle: Harry Belafonte, Best Supporting Actor
* Texas Film Critics: Miranda Richardson, Best Supporting Actress
* Chicago Tribune: 10 best films of 1996

“The story is not really what “Kansas City” is about. As counterpoint, Altman gathered some of the best living jazz musicians, put them on a set representing the Hey Hey Club, and asked them to play period material in the style of the Kansas City jazz giants (Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Jay McShann, Lester Young, etc.). … What he asks of the actors (those who are “soloists,” anyway) is not realism but the same kind of playful show-off performances he’s getting from the musicians. And to understand the acting, it’s helpful to begin with the music. – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“Jazz lovers, rejoice. Robert Altman‘s hypnotic riff on his hell-raising, whoremongering, crime-ridden Missouri hometown during the Depression is brimming over with vibrant, vital music.”– Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“The most personal film of Altman's career is less a conventional story than a jazz rhapsody for director and cast”. – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

"Played by an all-star contemporary band in the Hey Hey Club, a jazz saloon and gambling den that the film imagines as the city's spiritual hub, the music blares with a snarling exuberance that suggests American free enterprise gleefully running amok in a 20th-century frontier town. - Stephen Holden, The New York Times