Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate takes a view of downtown KC to Sundance

Laurel Nakadate’s film could show the world what downtown KC has to offer.

Next month, audiences at the Sundance Film Festival will gaze on downtown Kansas City, thanks to scenes in filmmaker Laurel Nakadate’s Stay the Same Never Change. Writer-director Nakadate shot the film in Kansas City last summer. There’s a Fourth of July-themed trailer on Nakadate’s Web site, but it doesn’t provide much insight into the project. One-man band Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Owen Ashworth of Chicago) wrote and recorded the original score. — Crystal K. Wiebe