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The Thrill of Speed, Kansas City

First Feature Studio

We are preparing for festival screenings.

Conquistadore Films is launching around a first feature: a Kansas City night-shift drama about work, motion, escape, and the pressure of ordinary lives pushed toward speed.

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Festival Premiere Status

World premiere available.

The Thrill of Speed is preparing for festival screenings and currently available for world, international, North American, U.S., Midwest, Missouri, Kansas, and Kansas City premiere consideration.

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Feature Film

The Thrill of Speed - Feature Film

Running Time
100 minutes
Directed, Written, Produced By
Michael Saye
Aspect Ratio
2.39:1
Country of Origin
United States
Language
English
Sound Format
Stereo 2.0
Production Company
Conquistadore Films
Edited By
Michael Saye
World Premiere Status
Available
The Thrill of Speed cast at a railroad crossing under red signal lights
The Thrill of Speed cast standing under a streetlight at night
The Thrill of Speed cast seated in front of an industrial plant at night
The Thrill of Speed cast walking toward camera outside an industrial plant at night
A character from The Thrill of Speed walking with arms raised under utility lines
The Thrill of Speed cast standing in a road beneath a streetlight
Two characters from The Thrill of Speed in safety vests beside a train at night
Two characters from The Thrill of Speed joking near a passing train
Two characters from The Thrill of Speed beside red train crossing lights
A close portrait from The Thrill of Speed lit by red light
A character from The Thrill of Speed leaning near red rail crossing light
A character from The Thrill of Speed in a safety vest beside rail equipment
A character from The Thrill of Speed standing near rail crossing equipment
The Thrill of Speed cast looking toward the Kansas City skyline at night
The Thrill of Speed cast standing at a railroad crossing under red lights
The Thrill of Speed cast beneath a railroad crossing signal
A character from The Thrill of Speed jumping under railroad crossing lights

Scene Clip

A scene from The Thrill of Speed

The Thrill of Speed

A scene clip from the Kansas City night-shift feature.

Studio

We're Conquistadore Films.

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Conquistadore Films is an independent film studio focused on location-driven storytelling, small-footprint productions, and ambitious narratives created outside traditional industry structures. The studio favors real environments over constructed sets, compact crews over large production units, and flexible filmmaking methods that allow stories to evolve in response to the people and places involved in their creation. Drawing inspiration from both narrative cinema and documentary practice, Conquistadore Films seeks to create films that feel grounded in lived experience while remaining cinematic in scope and ambition.

The studio's approach emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and exploration. Rather than treating a screenplay as a rigid blueprint, productions are developed as a dialogue between writing, performance, and location, allowing unexpected discoveries to influence the finished work. Conquistadore Films is particularly interested in stories shaped by travel, adventure, history, and cultural encounter, and pursues filmmaking methods that prioritize authenticity, mobility, and creative independence. Through this approach, the studio aims to produce distinctive films that could not have been made anywhere else, by anyone else, in quite the same way.