Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival
Toronto, Los Angeles…..and now CHICAGO. LOGAN Cinemas in midtown Chicago.
Although they had appeared onscreen together in The Lucky Dog (1921), the Hal Roach short Duck Soup (1927) marks the first time Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were paired as comedy leads. They play a couple of hoboes who flee a surly forest ranger conscripting tramps to fight a raging fire. The film begins in […]
How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Duck Soup — Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more)
Call & Response had a conversation with Will Ayers about imagination, Zoom, individualism, and much more.
“Let’s dust off our imaginations”: In Conversation with Bill Ayers — Call & Response
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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