Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival
Toronto, Los Angeles…..and now CHICAGO. LOGAN Cinemas in midtown Chicago.
The Pride of the Yankees, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright. Co-starring Babe Ruth. Directed by Sam Wood. B&W, 128 minutes. The son of immigrant parents, Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) takes an interest in the All-American sport of baseball at an early age. He’d like to pursue it as a career, but […]
The Pride of the Yankees — Classic for a Reason
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. –Victor Skrebneski Chicago’s photographer He became interested in photography when he found a camera in a park. Seven-year old Victor Skrebneski turned the camera into lost and found. He said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times in 2000, “I took it inside […]
On Photography: Vicktor Skrebneski, 1929-2020 — Photofocus
There was no ballroom, club scene or wedding to attend to, but make no mistake — last Sunday I was ready to dance. Like so many sports fans I was glued to the television set to watch the first two parts of the documentary, “The Last Dance” on the Chicago Bulls last season (1997-98) with […]
Gase: There are other great sports documentaries besides ‘The Last Dance’ — Times-Herald
Reader Edward sent this breathtaking photo of a mirage of the Chicago Skyline, just featured as the Earth Science Photo of the Day. It was taken in 2008 from the Indiana Dunes, a state park 37 miles from the city, and a place from which the city isn’t visible. It is in fact an inferior […]
A mirage of Chicago — Why Evolution Is True
Although I wasn’t available to attend the festival itself, I am VERY delighted that Chicago P.I. was chosen as the winning TV pilot script. The festival’s actors did a superb job performing a table read of my project and posting it on-line. Thank you. I will certainly enter this festival again.
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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: SATURDAY
BEST DOC FILM: BALLHAWKS
BEST PERFORMANCES: WELL DONE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: RED THREAD
BEST MUSIC: LACUNA
Theme of night: Passions and Trajedy
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:
 LET THE BLONDE SING, 13min., USA Documentary |
 WE WERE HARDLY MORE THAN CHILDREN, 9min., USA, Documentary |
 SEX + ICE CREAM, 6min., USA, Documentary |
 BALLHAWKS, 10min., USA, Documentary |
 SATURDAY, 9min., USA/Iran, Drama |
 LACUNA, 7min., USA, Drama |
 RED THREAD, 3min., USA, Experimental |
 HONOR AMONG THIEVES, 10min., USA, Sci-Fi/Western |
 WELL DONE, 3min., USA, Comedy |
The 1st festival in Chicago in 2020.
3 more festival events in 2020.
See you at the festivals.
– Matthew Toffolo
WELL DONE, 3min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Brian Ernst
Neil needs his co-worker BBQ to go off without a hitch in order for his boss to entrust him with the warehouse club membership. Then he will choose the SNACKS!
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WE WERE HARDLY MORE THAN CHILDREN, 9min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Cecelia Condit
“We Were Hardly More Than Children” is an epic tale of a friend’s traumatic abortion; a deep hurt not remembered, but poignantly visible in her paintings.
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SEX + ICE CREAM, 6min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Melissa Lane
A short documentary about a young woman finding her identity through art.
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