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58th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Award Winners
Published: October 21, 2022 | Filed under: Festival News
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival, North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, today announced the winners of its 2022 edition in categories including International Feature Film Competition, New Directors Competition, International Documentary Competition, OutLook Competition, and Short Film Competitions, as well as the Chicago Award for an outstanding program in the Festival’s City & State program, and the Roger Ebert Award, awarded to a film competing in the New Directors Competition in recognition of a filmmaker with a fresh and uncompromising vision.[…]
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Winner of The Pitch Announced: James Choi’s All Things Considered
Published: October 18, 2022 | Filed under: Chicago Industry Exchange, Industry Days, News & Announcements
The 58th Chicago International Film Festival, presented by Cinema/Chicago, announced the winner of The Pitch at the 8th edition of
Industry Days: All Things Considered, written and directed by James Choi. The film follows a young Korean-American man whose spirited mother is determined to reconnect with her son and help him with his depression through a “fake funeral” ritual that promises to deliver people from their despair.
All Things Considered will receive an awards package of in-kind goods and services worth tens of thousands of dollars.[…]
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Director Spotlight: Alex Phillips on All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
Published: October 14, 2022 | Filed under: Festival News
We are beyond excited to welcome alum, Alex Phillips, back to the festival this year with his debut feature, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms. It is a surrealist and vibrantly twisted tale that follows a trio as they careen down a rabbit hole after ingesting hallucinogenic earthworms. Riveting though highly disturbing, the film is not meant to induce pleasure, but instead repulsion and even anger. It is an absolute trip.
You wrote this film as well as directed it.[…]
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3 Films Reinventing Genre to Watch at the 58th Chicago International Film Festival
Published: October 13, 2022 | Filed under: Festival News
Women laced into tightly wrought corsets; femme fatales shrouded in shadow; a precocious detective with a sharp wit. Each image evokes something particular, connects to a collective association with a specific genre. This association comes with preexisting knowledge, an awareness about what symmetries define that genre and what it means or represents as a category. This recognizability can be both helpful and detrimental, the latter happening when something gets too bogged down in tropes and conventions rather than its own narrative.[…]