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Tag: Indie film

Chicago Independent Producers Lab accepting applications for 2022
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Chicago Independent Producers Lab accepting applications for 2022

By Reel Chicago Dec 3, 2021
Full Spectrum Features has opened applications for the 2022 Chicago Independent Producers Lab, a nine-month project incubator designed to cultivate inclusive, diverse voices in...
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Lightswitch Video launches $5000 grant for Chicago filmmakers
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Lightswitch Video launches $5000 grant for Chicago filmmakers

By Reel Chicago Nov 24, 2021
Lightswitch Video, a Chicago-based video production company, launched The Full STEM Ahead Filmmaker’s Initiative. The first-year initiative is designed to encourage STEM ...
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Chicago made Christmas with Felicity premieres on AMC+ on Thanksgiving
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Chicago made Christmas with Felicity premieres on AMC+ on Thanksgiving

By Reel Chicago Nov 16, 2021
The family-friendly holiday movie Christmas with Felicity, directed by award-winning, Chicago-based filmmaker, Jack C. Newell (Monuments), will premiere on AMC+ Thanksgiving D...
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Chicago Critics Film Festival announces Audience Award Winners
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Chicago Critics Film Festival announces Audience Award Winners

By Reel Chicago Nov 15, 2021
Over 1,000 vaccinated and masked film enthusiasts safely returned to the cinema this weekend for exclusive screenings and special guests, marking another successful year for Ch...
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‘Always Jane’ Amazon’s trans coming-of-age docuseries premieres today
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‘Always Jane’ Amazon’s trans coming-of-age docuseries premieres today

By Reel Chicago Nov 12, 2021
Amazon Prime Video has ordered the four-part coming-of-age docuseries Always Jane - a production of Amazon Studios, Mutt Film, and Union Editorial. The series follows tra...
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Gotham announces winners of Focus Features and JetBlue
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Gotham announces winners of Focus Features and JetBlue

By Reel Chicago Nov 10, 2021
The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced the winners of its third annual Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase. The five winning filmmakers of the...
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Kartemquin Films names Betsy Leonard as Executive Director
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Kartemquin Films names Betsy Leonard as Executive Director

By Reel Chicago Nov 10, 2021
Kartemquin Films, the award-winning Chicago-based documentary nonprofit organization, today named Betsy Leonard as Executive Director. Leonard will begin on December 1st, overs...
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Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival Live Screening Nov 10
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Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival Live Screening Nov 10

By Reel Chicago Nov 4, 2021
The Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival is hosting an in-person, live screening at Twisted Hippo Brewing the evening of Wednesday, November 10th. Over the course of a c...
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Thanksgiving release of ‘An Intrusion’ by Chicagoan Sam Logan Khaleghi
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Thanksgiving release of ‘An Intrusion’ by Chicagoan Sam Logan Khaleghi

By Reel Chicago Nov 4, 2021
An Intrusion a feature film from Chicago producer Sam Logan Khaleghi, Northwestern University Alumnus will release nationwide on Thanksgiving weekend. The crime thriller A...
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CFWC to host 50th Anniversary Industry Mixer Nov 6th
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CFWC to host 50th Anniversary Industry Mixer Nov 6th

By Reel Chicago Nov 2, 2021
Community Film Workshop of Chicago (CFWC) in collaboration with Melanated in America, will kick-off a yearlong celebration of its 50th Anniversary with an Industry Mixer. ...
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JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival presents the Fall Virtual Fest
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JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival presents the Fall Virtual Fest

By Reel Chicago Oct 29, 2021
The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival presents the Fall Virtual Fest with eight films over three weekends, including six Midwest and Chicago premieres. The Fall Virtual Fest...
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PrideArts Fall Film Festival will stream in four weekly programs
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PrideArts Fall Film Festival will stream in four weekly programs

By Reel Chicago Oct 28, 2021
PrideArts announces the PrideArts Fall Film Festival, a month long festival of 32 films from 9 countries that will stream online in four segments, each available online for one...
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Winners of the 57th Chicago International Film Festival
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Winners of the 57th Chicago International Film Festival

By Reel Chicago Oct 25, 2021
The Chicago International Film Festival announces the winners of its 2021 competitions. Celebrating its 57th edition October 13 - 24, 2021, the Chicago International Film F...
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Winners of Reeling: The 39th Chicago LGBTQ+ Film Festival
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Winners of Reeling: The 39th Chicago LGBTQ+ Film Festival

By Reel Chicago Oct 25, 2021
The audience votes are in and the judges have spoken. The winning films of Reeling: The 39th Chicago LGBTQ+ Film Festival have been announced! The 39th Chicago LGBTQ+ Film ...
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Full festival schedule for the 27th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival
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Full festival schedule for the 27th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center announces the full festival schedule for its 27th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, which will take pla...
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57th Chicago International Film Fest announces competition juries
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57th Chicago International Film Fest announces competition juries

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival announced the esteemed members of the juries for its competitions, featuring acclaimed filmmakers and industry luminaries from arou...
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FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Fest
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FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Fest

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021
FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), one of only two Academy Award qualifying international children’s film festivals in the worl...
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Interview: writer and director of ‘Ghostwriter’ beautifully filmed in Chicago
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Interview: writer and director of ‘Ghostwriter’ beautifully filmed in Chicago

By Joia DaVida Oct 1, 2021
Ghostwriter is a beautifully filmed black and white Indie film, about a bartender who, as a once published writer, has struggled for years with his second novel, and how he hel...
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57th Chicago International Film Festival announces Industry Days
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57th Chicago International Film Festival announces Industry Days

By Reel Chicago Sep 24, 2021
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival announced the program for Industry Days, to be held October 14 - 17, 2021, with an impressive list of guest speakers to inspire and...
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Chicago Critics Film Festival returns to Music Box Theatre
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Chicago Critics Film Festival returns to Music Box Theatre

By Reel Chicago Sep 24, 2021
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, announces the first ...
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