It’s time for some outdoor movies again! The revered 61 Drive In Theatre — only the fourth of its kind in the state — will open up its 72nd season April 22. Films on the slate for the first weekend at the drive-in will be “The Bad Guys” and “The Lost City.” The drive-in movie […]
Applications for our last filmmaking project – Scripted Short Films presented by Sony Pictures – are open now through April 15th and we would love for your youth to join us! Our last filmmaking project of the year is a teen favorite so we have included a program email below that you can easily forward […]
Here are my picks for the 2022 Academy Awards! Play along on Sunday night by using this ballot! Happy Oscar Sunday, everyone!
Scott Community College, with the generosity of the Figge Art Museum, will host a screening of the award-winning film, Road to Perdition (2002), starring Tom Hanks on March 22, 2022, at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd Street, in Davenport. The film screening will begin at 4 p.m. with the author question and answer […]
The award-winning documentary “Jean Seberg: Actress Activist Icon” will have its broadcast premiere on WQPT-Quad Cities PBS and screen one time on Sunday, March 27 at 7 p.m. The film was produced by Mid-America Emmy Award winners Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, and Regional Emmy-nominated filmmaker Garry McGee of McMarr, Ltd. Selected […]
The next Fresh Films filmmaking project – Roku Change Makers – starts on March 10th and we would love to have some of your youth join us for this amazing documentary filmmaking project! Not only will they learn film and tech skills, but this project offers the opportunity for their films to be streamed on […]
For your late night viewing pleasure… Quad Cities is a web series that was shot in the Quad Cities in the summer of 2021 and debuted in the fall of 2021. The series was created by Kurt Oberhaus (This Is Us) and Justin Marxen (Haunt) and features both local and National talent. […]
Illinois Quad-Cities area students can learn documentary filmmaking through March 10 with Fresh Films, based in Rock Island! Fresh Films is kicking off our next film project – Roku Change Makers: Documentary Filmmaking – on March 10 and we would love to have your students join us! This project is all about making a difference […]
Mondays can be rough. And so, every Monday, we give you a music video. A fun, funny music video. Something that’ll make you smile, make you laugh, make you reminisce, and make you realize that back in the day, music video creators were probably either insane or heavily intoxicated. But were also incredibly entertaining. We […]
WQPT announced today that it is now live streaming on DIRECTV STREAM. A dedicated live channel for WQPT is already available to all local DIRECTV STREAM customers, supplemented with additional PBS on-demand programming that will continue to expand PBS’s digital footprint and offer viewers additional ways to stream PBS content. “As viewer habits continue to […]
