He will be present for the screening and a question and answer session will follow. Tom has been making films in Chicago since the late 1960s. Cheryl Graeff , part time faculty member in the Film and Video department, is featured in Vick's Boy a play written by Ben Bettenbender and directed by Richard Shavzine. Each year, the best films created by our students are showcased at this screening. Cash prizes and awards are given for Best of the Fest, and Audience Award, as well as prizes for excellence in screenwriting.
Admission is free.
Tod Lending got an Oscar nomination for his documentary Legacy . The film concerns the Hmong, Cambodian people who emigrated to the U.S., forced out of their country following the Vietnam War. The Materialists made its national television premiere as part of the Science Fiction channel's ongoing short film series Exposure. Heather Gross worked on the sound design team for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Elise Kirk is midway through a year studying the history of Spanish cinema as a Fulbright Scholar in Madrid.