Chicago – One of the signature events for Women in Film Chicago (Wifc) is their annual Focus Awards, which will take place on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 (for more details and ticket purchasing information, click here). The Wifc will honor four notable women who influence Chicago-area film production, including actress Julia Sweeney, producer/activist Mary Morten, director of photography Tari Segal and CEO (of Lifeway Foods, Inc.) and film producer Julie Smolyansky.
In anticipation of the event, HollywoodChicago.com got the opportunity to interview Ms. Smolyansky. In 2002, she became CEO of Lifeway Foods, which was founded in 1976 by her father, Michael. At the age of 27, she became the youngest female CEO in history to run a publicly traded company. She has since bolstered the company’s signature Kefir yogurt line, and has increased revenues with an expanded distribution network that includes the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. She is also a film producer of note,...
In anticipation of the event, HollywoodChicago.com got the opportunity to interview Ms. Smolyansky. In 2002, she became CEO of Lifeway Foods, which was founded in 1976 by her father, Michael. At the age of 27, she became the youngest female CEO in history to run a publicly traded company. She has since bolstered the company’s signature Kefir yogurt line, and has increased revenues with an expanded distribution network that includes the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. She is also a film producer of note,...
- 2/21/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
“Unbroken Glass” is a documentary directed by filmmaker Dinesh Das Sabu about his journey to uncover the truth following a family tragedy. Set to make its world premiere at the 2016 Seattle South Asian Film Festival on October 22, IndieWire has your first look at the film in the trailer below.
At the age of six, Sabu and his older siblings became orphans. With little to no idea who his parents were or where they came from, he decided to piece together their story and his in a documentary. Filmed over the course of five years, he soon discovered silenced family history of mental illness and disturbing truths – his mother was schizophrenic and died by suicide – all while reconciling the past and confronting the trauma of losing his parents.
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“I hope that telling my family’s story will raise awareness...
At the age of six, Sabu and his older siblings became orphans. With little to no idea who his parents were or where they came from, he decided to piece together their story and his in a documentary. Filmed over the course of five years, he soon discovered silenced family history of mental illness and disturbing truths – his mother was schizophrenic and died by suicide – all while reconciling the past and confronting the trauma of losing his parents.
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“I hope that telling my family’s story will raise awareness...
- 9/28/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
The new film from the acclaimed documentary production house Kartemquin Films ("Hoop Dreams," "Life Itself," "The Interrupters," etc), titled "The Homestretch," will have its Chicago premiere, in an extended one-week run at The Gene Siskel Film Center, downtown Chicago, next month, from Sept. 12-18. The film, by directors Anne De Mare and Kirsten Kelly, which got a rave review on S & A by Fariha Roisin (Here) when it was screened at the Human Watch Film Festival in New York in June, chronicles the personal lives and struggles of 3 homeless Chicago teenagers who defy the odds, to create a new lives and futures for themselves. ...
- 8/28/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly's documentary The Homestretch tracks the lives of three homeless Chicago teenagers: Roque, whose 1.6 Gpa seems shockingly at odds with the fact that, among other things, he's performing Hamlet in collaboration with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Anthony, a recent father and a shrewd performer of lyrics and poetry; and the lively and hilarious Kasey, who left home after her mother failed to accept her lesbianism.
The movie's investigation into teen homelessness is more panoramic than the intimate, three-person structure might suggest: In one scene, an overnight shelter with limited resources is forced to employ a lottery system to determine who will be able to spend the night, a brutal practice that speaks volumes about the intricat...
The movie's investigation into teen homelessness is more panoramic than the intimate, three-person structure might suggest: In one scene, an overnight shelter with limited resources is forced to employ a lottery system to determine who will be able to spend the night, a brutal practice that speaks volumes about the intricat...
- 6/18/2014
- Village Voice
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kids. Such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape or Reservoir Dogs before it, and such as Winter’s Bone, Blue Valentine and Fruitvale Station after it, Larry Clark & Harmony Korine’s seminal film is forever connected in “spirit” to the lieu where it received its secret midnight premiere screening in 1995. The Sundance Film Festival might be known as the birthplace of U.S indie filmmaking innovation, avant-gardism, a larger definition of the low budgeted film response to Hollywood in not only narrative but in the non-fiction form, but it is a festival made strong by its renewal and familiarity. That close acquaintanceness exists in Kids‘ starlets Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny filmography/career path trajectory and connection to Park City (both have several indie films slated for ’14 – of which I’ve included in our predictions list) and it is that “familiarity” that is visibly noticeable in how I map out my annual predictions list.
- 11/18/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Institute has announced the 22 Fellows representing nine documentary film projects participating in the 2013 Documentary Edit and Story Labs, set to run from Jun 21-29 and Jul 5-13 at Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah.
Documentary Film Program (Dfp) staff and creative advisors will join the Fellows in the process.
The Fellows for the Jun 21-29 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Kirsten Johnson and editor Amanda Laws for A Blind Eye (Us); co-directors and editor Ed Pincus and Lucia Small for Elephant In The Room (Us); co-directors Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting and editor Edgar Burcksen for The Last Hijack (Us-Netherlands); director Andrew James and editor Jason Tippet for Street Fighting Man (Us); and director Alexander Nanau and editor Mirceau Olteanu for Totonel (Romania).
The Fellows for the Jul 5-13 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Elizabeth ‘Chai’ Vasarhelyi and editor Jay Freund for An African Spring (Us); co-directors Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly and editor...
Documentary Film Program (Dfp) staff and creative advisors will join the Fellows in the process.
The Fellows for the Jun 21-29 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Kirsten Johnson and editor Amanda Laws for A Blind Eye (Us); co-directors and editor Ed Pincus and Lucia Small for Elephant In The Room (Us); co-directors Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting and editor Edgar Burcksen for The Last Hijack (Us-Netherlands); director Andrew James and editor Jason Tippet for Street Fighting Man (Us); and director Alexander Nanau and editor Mirceau Olteanu for Totonel (Romania).
The Fellows for the Jul 5-13 Documentary Edit and Story Lab are: Director Elizabeth ‘Chai’ Vasarhelyi and editor Jay Freund for An African Spring (Us); co-directors Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly and editor...
- 6/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
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