Chicago – The Midwest Film Festival is celebrating the season with their upcoming “Summer Bash & Comedy Screening” on July 28th, 2021 (7pm), at the Chi-Town Drive In. The event will feature a meet-and-greet and an evening of funny-bone short films, including “Open House,” a directorial debut by Mikaela McParlan. For more info, tickets and the film line-up, click here.
“Open House” is a flat out hilarious film, directed and co-written (with Troy Sugrue) by Mikaela McParlan in her director debut. A murderer (Mark E. Penzien) takes his still-alive victim (Tony Belsito) to an empty neighborhood house. Meanwhile, a real estate agent (Ruth Kaufman) is determined to sell the same house. When the two purposes come together, pitch black wackiness ensues.
Midwest Film Festival, July 28th, 2021, Featuring ‘Open House’
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The Midwest Film Festival has been a staple in Chicago’s film community for 16 years. At the beginning of 2020, it...
“Open House” is a flat out hilarious film, directed and co-written (with Troy Sugrue) by Mikaela McParlan in her director debut. A murderer (Mark E. Penzien) takes his still-alive victim (Tony Belsito) to an empty neighborhood house. Meanwhile, a real estate agent (Ruth Kaufman) is determined to sell the same house. When the two purposes come together, pitch black wackiness ensues.
Midwest Film Festival, July 28th, 2021, Featuring ‘Open House’
Photo credit: MidwestFilm.com
The Midwest Film Festival has been a staple in Chicago’s film community for 16 years. At the beginning of 2020, it...
- 7/28/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – In this new golden age of animation, the ability to create mood and setting is more accessible than ever. For creator and writer Ron Falzone (with director Julian Grant), a notable death in the 1920s and the movie business associated with it is in their film “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome.”
Now available on most major streaming platforms, “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” is an animated film with a unique artistic design that evokes both the era and the narrative. The story is about a seminal event in movie and American history … the death of silent film era matinee idol Rudolph Valentino in 1926. A woman named Coriander becomes involved in the circumstance of Valentino’s passing, and brings along her past and present situations to the funeral.
Available on Most Major Streaming Services
Photo credit: Grant Guignol & Squeakin’ Yojimbo Pictures
Creator and writer...
Now available on most major streaming platforms, “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” is an animated film with a unique artistic design that evokes both the era and the narrative. The story is about a seminal event in movie and American history … the death of silent film era matinee idol Rudolph Valentino in 1926. A woman named Coriander becomes involved in the circumstance of Valentino’s passing, and brings along her past and present situations to the funeral.
Available on Most Major Streaming Services
Photo credit: Grant Guignol & Squeakin’ Yojimbo Pictures
Creator and writer...
- 5/17/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – What is one of the greatest survival instincts of the pandemic? Creativity. The Zoom web series “What Did Clyde Hide?” is the result of a creative effort from Executive Producer/Show Runner Ruth Kaufman, Producer Sandy Gulliver and Director Sean Patrick Leonard. Kaufman and Leonard talk about the series, naturally, via Zoom.
“What did Clyde Hide?” a Show Girls Production, is a six-part web series that takes place after the mysterious death of a famous film director. Seventeen unconventional women, who loved, hated and/or were wronged by him, seek atonement at his Zoom funeral. It can be seen by clicking here.
What Did Clyde Hide
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The actors, who originally organized on Facebook as a networking group, wrote and produced the series, and recruited independent actor/director Sean Patrick Leonard to direct. Each of the women in the cast of 17 developed her own character, backstory and monologue,...
“What did Clyde Hide?” a Show Girls Production, is a six-part web series that takes place after the mysterious death of a famous film director. Seventeen unconventional women, who loved, hated and/or were wronged by him, seek atonement at his Zoom funeral. It can be seen by clicking here.
What Did Clyde Hide
Photo credit: ChicagoShowGirls.us
The actors, who originally organized on Facebook as a networking group, wrote and produced the series, and recruited independent actor/director Sean Patrick Leonard to direct. Each of the women in the cast of 17 developed her own character, backstory and monologue,...
- 12/28/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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