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Film News: Oriana Oppice Awarded Best Director for ‘Leia’s Army’ at Global...
WASHINGTON, DC– Chicago took home a bit of gold on August 26th, 2018, as local filmmaker Oriana Oppice was awarded Best Director for her short film “Leia’s Army” at the Global Impact Film Festival in...
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Podtalk: Josh & Jonathan Baker on the Passion of ‘Kin’
CHICAGO– The tagline for the new film “Kin” is “No force is stronger than family,” and who would know that better than a couple of twin brother filmmakers. Josh and Jonathan Baker make their feature...
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Feature: Warren Beatty, Robert Klein and ‘Medium Cool’ Remember Aug. 28,...
CHICAGO– It was 50 years ago today – August 28th, 1968 – that Chicago Police and Viet Nam War protestors clashed in front of the Hilton Chicago Hotel on Michigan Avenue, while the Democratic National...
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Podtalk: Filmmaker Bing Liu is Essential in ‘Minding the Gap’
CHICAGO– Sometimes, if a filmmaker is aligned, all of their experience, accessibility and life force combine to create a signature production. This is what happened to Bing Liu, who took his life as a...
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Podtalk: Aneesh Chaganty & Sev Ohanian Start ‘Searching’
CHICAGO– Face it, fellow modernists, we live on our screens. It was inevitable that entire films would soon be set there, and the latest is “Searching.” Combining the nightmare of a missing teenager...
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Podtalk: Director Patrick Creadon on ‘Hesburgh’ at Midwest Independent Film...
CHICAGO– For every grand name in history, there are behind-the-scenes performers who contribute to that history just as profoundly. One such person was “Father Ted” of Notre Dame, profiled in Patrick...
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Podtalk: Media Artist Lana Z. Caplan on Her New Exhibit, ‘Dunites’
BOSTON, MA– Meeting Lana Z. Caplan, as I did at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, is to meet a variety of perspective all in one dynamic artist. The veteran “lens based” media visionary has...
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Interview: Season Seven Opening Night Film for Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema...
CHICAGO– It’s another opening and another show, as Season Seven of Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) starts it’s run of showcase films, starting with South Korea’s “Adulthood” on Wednesday,...
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Interview: Director Constantinos Patsalides on ’30,’ at Greek International...
CHICAGO– In 2017, a Greek film production team – producer/writer George Avraam and director Constantinos Patsalides – came to Chicago with their documentary “Beloved Days,” which was part of the...
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Podtalk: Darren Criss, Cover Star for Michigan Avenue Magazine
CHICAGO– Chicago’s Michigan Avenue Magazine celebrated its 10th Anniversary Issue last week with its cover celebrity Darren Criss, who just won an Emmy for “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” and...
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Interview: Bongkod Bencharongkul on ‘Sad Beauty’ at Asian Pop-Up Cinema on...
CHICAGO– Season Seven of Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) continues on Wednesday, September 26th, 2018, with the film “Sad Beauty,” a film from Thailand directed by Bongkod Bencharongkul, who will...
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Red-Carpet Talk: Opening Night of 2018 REELING LGBTQ+ Film Fest with...
CHICAGO– It was an Opening Night celebration at the 36th REELINGLGBTQ+ International Film Festival on September 20th, 2018. The opener was the screwball comedy “Freelancers Anonymous,” and walking the...
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Podtalk: Laura Madalinski of ‘Two in the Bush’ at Midwest Independent Film...
CHICAGO– The movie love story is a staple, but rarely has it been explored in the way co-writer/director Laura Madalinski takes it on. The polyamorous adventures of three people is the basis for “Two...
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Film News: Hong Kong Film Centerpiece at Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema, Oct....
CHICAGO– Season Seven of Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) continues on October 2nd and 3rd, 2018, with the films “Concerto of the Bully” and “When Sun Meets Moon,” the festivals’ Centerpiece Double...
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Podtalk: Kyle MacLachlan at Michigan Avenue Magazine 10th Celebration
CHICAGO– At Chicago’s Michigan Avenue Magazine 10th Anniversary Issue event on September 11th, 2018, a surprise visitor joined cover celebrity Darren Criss, and his low-key appearance brought a stir of...
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Podtalk: Director Robert Greene of ‘Bisbee ’17’, Screening at Chicago’s Music...
CHICAGO– In a film that worked like destiny for veteran documentary filmmaker Robert Greene, “Bisbee ’17” will open at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago on Friday, October 5th, 2018, and run through...
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Podtalk: Director Jennifer Hou Kwong & Producer Ellis Goodman on the film...
CHICAGO– There was a time in America when the medium of the magazine produced superstars. Famous writers, reporters, photographers and illustrators ruled the day, from the magazine’s invention in the...
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Podtalk: Director Gregory Dixon of ‘Olympia’ at 54th Chicago International...
CHICAGO– As each generation transitions to adulthood, the overwhelming changes that occur in employment, relationships and loss become their drama. Director Gregory Dixon and writer McKenzie Chinn...
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Podtalk: Ike Barinholtz, First Time Director for ‘The Oath’
CHICAGO– The life we have in these “interesting times” is rife with the peril of outside influences… which makes for difficult confrontations with both the known and the unknown. Comic actor Ike...
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Podtalk: Michael Kutza of 54th Chicago International Film Festival in ‘A...
CHICAGO– The Founder and CEO of the Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) is Michael Kutza. In 1964, when he had the idea for the festival, legendary Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet...
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