NOVEMBER 8, 2024:
As he watches how is current project, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” is doing in theaters around the United States, a former Pierre resident hasn’t lost sight of the movie he released five years ago.
Andrew Kightlinger, who now lives in California, filmed much of “Tator Tot and Patton” in the Pierre and Fort Pierre area. He says he wants to make more movies in his home state.
Kightlinger brought in friends from film school to play the lead roles in “Tator Tot and Patton,” but local residents and locations were also used. His current production, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” was released in around 700 movie theaters across the country on Nov. 1, 2024.
Hear more from Kightlinger about “Tater Tot and Patton” in this KGFX Beyond the Mic podcast published in 2019. The podcast is available for free.
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MARCH 5, 2019:
A film produced by a Pierre native and shot mostly in the Pierre and Fort Pierre area will have its first South Dakota Premier at the State 123 movie theater in Pierre Friday (March 8, 2019 at 7:15pm).
“Tater Tot & Patton” writer and director Andrew Kightlinger tells DRG News and Farm he wrote the full-length feature film after his mother passed away.
Kightlinger, who now lives in Los Angeles, knew he wanted to shoot the film in his home state.
Kightlinger brought in friends from film school to play the lead roles, but local residents and locations are also used.
Kightlinger will be at Friday’s showing of “Tater Tot and Patton” in Pierre to answer questions from audience members.
The film also begins it’s one-week showing on Friday in Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Spearfish, Huron and Brookings. It starts showing March 15 in Aberdeen and Watertown and will also go for a week. “Tater Tot and Patton” runs March 12– one night only– in Mobridge
