An indie-comedy filmed in the Tulsa area by almost entirely Oklahomans will be screened at 9 tonight in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Regents and Associates Rooms, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Campus Activities Council Film Series.

“The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher,” a coming-of-age film in which the title character, a dead rock star’s awkward son, rises up through Tulsa’s karaoke scene after having a pre-mid-life crisis on his 30th birthday, was originally to be screened in January until the ice storm came through Norman, CAC Film Series Chairwoman Chelsea Cawood said.

The Film Series sometimes puts on movie premieres for films that haven’t been released to theaters yet like “Duncan Christopher," said Cawood, economics senior.

CAC also has been co-programming screenings with other campus organizations this year, such as the screening of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” with the LGTBQ Advisory Board on Halloween that included a costume contest.

“That was really cool because we got a really diverse crowd out to see [“Rocky Horror”],” Cawood said. “It’s cool to get a reach to different people.”

Before the film is released to the public in March, “Duncan Christopher” instead has been making its way through college campus and local screenings to promote the film through word-of-mouth — much like a rock ‘n’ roll tour, said the film’s director and producer Justin S. Monroe.

Monroe, an Oklahoma native who moved back home in 2008 to make the movie with his longtime friend Jack Roberts, who plays Duncan, said the film has a backdrop of awkwardness in the underground karaoke world of Tulsa that he and the other creators worked to keep as realistic as possible.

“It’s really about Duncan becoming a man through that whole crazy world — and Duncan does, he finds himself,” Monroe said. “We created the entire project to be fully Oklahoman, made by Oklahomans, for Oklahomans … we shined up the metaphorical belt buckle that is Oklahoma.”

Several of the actors, producers and writers will be at “Duncan Christoper’s” premiere tonight to meet with the students who attend and get feedback on the film, Cawood said.