WQPT PBS is launching the Keep WQPT Strong: Community Focus-Community Funded Campaign, an initiative focused on building a strong and sustainable future for public television throughout the Quad Cities region. The campaign will welcome new members, encourage current members to increase their ongoing support, and inspire the community to invest in the trusted educational and […]
THE DRIFTLESS, a film shot in Iowa and featuring local actors including Justin Marxen and Tristan Tapscott, will be shown at The Last Picture House on September 1. The movie, directed by Tim Connery, has won a number of awards worldwide, and will be making its regional debut in Davenport that day. The film features […]
Fresh Films, the Rock Island-based national production company, is premiering their funny, family-friendly movie “Groundhog Gary: 6 More Weeks” as part of the Alternating Currents festival. The film will screen for free both Saturday, Aug. 15 at 11:30 a.m., and Sunday, Aug 16 at 12:15 p.m. at The Last Picture House (325 E. 2nd St., […]
Fresh Films, a Rock Island-based nonprofit production company, is using its latest streaming series to showcase how film and television production can fuel economic growth across the Quad Cities. The project is part of a broader initiative to build Rock Line Studios – a campus with soundstages and other infrastructure needed to attract $5 million […]
An Illinois-born pioneer independent filmmaker and former Iowa resident’s story will be revealed onscreen in the feature-length documentary “Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking” on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. at The Last Picture House in Davenport, IA. A post-screening discussion follows with special guest historian Jordan Bell, from Roanoke, Virginia. Micheaux’s 1920 […]
The seventh-annual QC Environmental Film Series (QCEFS) ended on a high note Sunday, March 1, at a crowded Galvin Fine Arts Center, Davenport. After the screening of the seventh documentary shown this year (since January, including one double feature), “Reef Builders” (2025), series leaders Kristin Bergren and Kathy Wine explained that they started a new […]
After being established more than three and a half years ago, the Quad Cities Film Office has been working quietly behind the scenes to help attract more film and TV production to the region. “Over the past months, our focus has been on strengthening marketing and infrastructure, increasing visibility for the Quad Cities, building relationships […]
If you build it, will they come? That famous catchphrase from the classic 1989 Iowa film “Field of Dreams” applies to the planned $12-million film production facility to be built on Rock Island’s 5th Avenue, between 20th and 22nd streets, called Rock Line Studios. That project – including two soundstages totaling 35,000 square feet of […]
It isn’t often that you get to comment on the story of your own death, but we live in a time of unreality, rumor and the aptly and ironically named Artificial Intelligence, so, here we are, and here is Paula Sands, erstwhile retired local media personality, confirming that tales of her demise have been, to […]
A three-year-old locally produced documentary will be shown Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, on WQPT PBS at 8 p.m. That’s when the public TV station will premiere “I AM disABLEd,” a heartwarming documentary that highlights the challenges and triumphs of students with disabilities, and their families, by following the journey of nine youths as they stage […]
