Tag: st. louis filmmakers

Advance Screening of St. Louis Filmmaker’s ‘Give a Damn?’ Premieres Two Years After Plane Crash

Posted: August 14, 2011 at 12:29 pm   /   Local, St. Louis Events

August 14, 2011 St. Louis, MO. — 2 years after the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of two pilots and seriously injured local filmmaker Dan Parris, the documentary is finally getting a public screening. Read about Give a Damn? and the plane crash here. Today at 2:30pm at the Landmark Tivoli in U-City, […]

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“Streetballers” Are Going to Hollywood! St. Louis Filmmakers Head Out West

Posted: August 30, 2009 at 10:09 am   /   Local, Movie News

“Streetballers” director Matthew Scott Krentz on Great Day St. Louis Thanks to strong opening week numbers at the box office, as well as the support of St. Louis, “Streetballers” will make it’s premiere in Hollywood! According to Patrick Rooney, producer and one of the stars of the film, “Streetballers” will now be premiering at the […]

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Video of Dan Parris in Hospital, Minutes after the Nairobi Plane Crash

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 7:06 am   /   Local

Chilling video taken from Rob’s cell phone was released yesterday, containing Dan Parris’ point of view concerning their plane crash from August 1st. Read more about the story here. Dan and Rob, two St. Louis filmmakers, were injured on a plane that crashed in Nairobi. The two were working on filming for their documentary, “Give […]

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Local Documentary Filmmakers Survive Deadly Plane Crash

Posted: August 6, 2009 at 11:51 am   /   Local, Off the Wall

From Fox 2: CHESTERFIELD, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) – Celebrating a miracle and mourning a tragedy at the same time: two documentary film-makers from St. Louis lived through a deadly plane crash in Africa Saturday. Sunday, their loved ones were, all at once, grateful, worried, and grieving. Dan Parris, 25, planned to make a documentary on extreme […]

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Nairobi plane crash victims improving, from KSDK St. Louis

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 2:29 pm   /   Local

KSDK — A 25-year-old Chesterfield man injured in a weekend plane crash has improved. Dan Parris was part of a local film crew shooting a documentary in Nairobi on poverty. The video on YouTube was shot moments after the plane carrying him and 26-year-old Rob Lehr of Ballwin crashed into an apartment building near Nairobi […]

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Give a Damn Makes Top Story on CNN, “2 U.S. filmmakers injured in Kenyan plane crash”

Posted: August 2, 2009 at 9:57 am   /   Local, Off the Wall

2 U.S. filmmakers injured in Kenyan plane crash By Faith Karimi CNN NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Two U.S. filmmakers were injured Saturday when their small plane crashed into a three-story residential building in downtown Nairobi on Saturday. Dan Parris, 25, and Rob Lehr, 26, both from St. Louis, Missouri, were shooting an independent documentary on […]

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Give A Damn? Nairobi Plane Crash Makes Front Page at KMOX

Posted: August 1, 2009 at 6:16 pm   /   Local, Off the Wall

St. Louis documentary crew’s plane crashes in Kenya From KMOX: A St. Louis man has been injured in a plane crash in Kenya, east Africa. 25-year-old Dan Parris of Chesterfield was pulled from the flaming wreckage by another St. Louisan, 26-year-old Rob Lehr of Ballwin. The two were aboard a plane used in their work […]

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St. Louis Filmmakers Injured in Nairobi Plane Crash, In Stable Condition

Posted: August 1, 2009 at 1:27 pm   /   Featured, Local, Movie News

Hear from Rob, after the plane crash Hear from Tim, after the plane crash Hear from Dan, after the plane crash   As many of you know, the Give a Damn? guys are close, personal friends of ours at ReviewSTL. It was announced this morning that two of the four St. Louis filmmakers, that were […]

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