FEATURE FILM: ALASKA LONG HUNTERS, Audience FEEBACK from Nov. 2020 Chicago Film Festival

Directed by Mark Rose

This award winning story follows the life of a young pilot who flew in Alaska’s frontier arctic. Experience the front-seat thrills of bush planes and helicopters operating in the most dangerous conditions on earth, airborne among the magnificent mountains, glaciers and rivers that only Alaska has to offer. Includes true-life experiences of accidents, comradeship, humor and heartbreak of life in early Alaska, gone forever when dismantled into parks in the 1980’s. Based on the book Last of the Long Hunters by Mark Rose, the scene opens with an early history of the Great Land and those that lived in it through interviews with several life-long Alaskans, including Hilda Lidner, Ray Atkins and Gale Ranny to name a few. Leading up to the introduction of the authors use of a new tool of transport – the single engine airplane, but not without extracting a terrible price. Experience what it was like to growing up among the dangerous game, hunting the massive caribou herds and absorbing the greatness of the county. Pilots will gain from the flying experiences related, and every boy, man and aviator will be compelled to grapple with its final truth, concluding with a crisis encounter that forever changed the pilot’s life forever. Filmed on Location in Alaska. Premiere’s Spring 2020.

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Last Looks Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Sept. 2020 CHICAGO Film Festival

LAST LOOKS, 6min, USA, Drama
Directed by Renee J. Vaca
Based on a true story…
When a death occurs suddenly and the family doesn’t respect the deceased final wishes, a friend takes measures into her own hands. The situation is dealt with by showing a whole new meaning to the term friendship, loss, and defiance.

OLE, BENNI AND THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK Sept. 2020 CHICAGO Film Fest

OLE, BENNI AND THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE, 23min., Germany, Drama/Family
Directed by Anna Ludwig
That his friend Benni has the Down syndrome, Ole (11) has never disturbed so far. But now – on the threshold of childhood to youth – their friendship is changing. Ole is in love for the first time and suddenly it’s no longer easy to stand by his friend …

Chicago Festival Videos: September 10/2020 Event.

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: OLE, BENNI AND THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE
BEST PERFORMANCES: LAST LOOKS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: 8 3/4
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: MORGEN

Theme of night: Unique surroundings

NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private.

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:

festival posterOLE, BENNI AND THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE, 23min., Germany, Drama/Family
festival poster8 3/4, 10min., USA, Drama/Family



festival posterMORGEN, 10min, USA, Documentary/Family



festival posterLAST LOOKS, 6min, USA, Drama



festival posterTHE QUIET SHORE, 28min., USA, Drama



festival posterIN YOUR ARMS TONIGHT, 24min., USA, Drama



festival posterRIVENSE, 34min., USA, Documentary



The beginning of a (temporary) new era.

See you at the festivals. Whenever that happens!

– Matthew Toffolo

Director Biography – Anna Ludwig (OLE, BENNI AND THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE)

Vor ihrem Regie-Studium an der Hochschule
Macromedia in München arbeitete Anna Ludwig
als Lehrerin im Gymnasium und Konzeptionerin in
der Werbung. Außerdem schrieb sie Kurzgeschichten und
Kinderbücher, die unter anderem bei dtv junior veröffentlicht wurden.

Anna Ludwig wrote several books for Children (published by dtv junior), worked as teacher at High School and as a copywriter in several advertising agencies before she started to study at Hochschule Macromedia.