Two movies with Missouri pedigrees will be screening at the Tivoli this week, and the directors will be on hand to accept your congratulations (or toss back your sour grapes).

“Box Elder” is a quarterlife-crisis comedy by recent Mizzou graduate Todd Sklar. This month, Sklar and his collegial cast are barnstorming the Midwest to promote the movie and prove that they’re nothing like the couch potatoes they play in the movie. The van tour stops at the Tivoli for one night only, then it’s off to the Kwik-E-Mart for more inspiration. The movie screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Boulevard; $8.75; $5 for students 314-995-6270. http://www.boxeldermovie.com.

“Twisted” is a charming documentary about balloon art that screened at last year’s St. Louis Film Festival and is returning to the Tivoli on Friday for a full-week engagement. Co-directors Sara Taksler and Naomi Greenfield met in a dormitory at Washington University, and like a lot of students, they bonded through their mutual love of latex animals. They applied that zeal to this charming documentary, which follows a diverse cast of characters on the road to a big ballonapalooza. The movie includes a history of balloon animals that is narrated by Taksler’s boss at “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart. The directors attend the screenings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. http://www.twistedballoondoc.com

Also screening in town this week, albeit privately for the cast and crew, is “Streetballers,” the debut feature by a St. Louisan named Matt Krentz (whom I once met on a bus in Park City, Utah, where he was attending the Sundance filmmakers workshop). Described as an inspirational cross between “Good Will Hunting” and “Coach Carter,” it was shot here last year with a cast that includes local basketball legend Larry Hughes (and his fine Bentley). “Streetballers” will make its official premiere on June 7 at the Hollywood Black Film Festival in Beverly Hills. Expect a public screening in St. Louis later this summer; but in the meantime, you can suck up to Krentz at a party Friday night at the Cue, 3632 S. Big Bend.

And finally, if you noticed camera crews prowling around downtown Kirkwood for the past week or so, that was the cast and crew of “How I Got Lost,” an independent film by an exiled St. Louisan named Joseph Leonard. It’s about two guys who leave New York and return to the Midwest to find themselves.

St. Louis is getting so hip, I’m starting to wonder why anyone would leave here in the first place.