SAGIndie presents Chicago’s first-ever Female Filmmakers Night!

First Tuesdays with The Midwest Independent Film Festival continue with the inaugural Female Filmmakers Night on Tuesday, March 2nd at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema, 2828 North Clark beginning at 6 p.m. This historic lineup of short films is being co-presented by SAGIndie, Women In Film Chicago and the Midwest Independent Film Festival. All filmmakers, along with select cast and crew, will be in attendance for a post-screening discussion with the audience. The inaugural Female Filmmakers program screens promptly at 7:30 p.m. A post-screening reception will be held immediately following the film at Forno Diablo, 433 West Diversey. For more information, please visit www.MidwestFilm.org.

Demystifying SAG Low Budget Contracts
A Breakfast Workshop presented by SAG/AFTRA Chicago and SAGIndie

Yes, you can afford to use professional actors in your film!
There is a Screen Actors Guild contract for every budget - and we’ll show you how to use them.

Join us as SAG Indie Director Darrien Michele Gipson walks indie filmmakers of all experience levels through the process of signing SAG Low Budget Agreements from start to finish.

WHERE: Kaufherr Members Resource Center
One East Erie, Suite 660, Chicago

WHEN: 8:30 - 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 2

WHY: This free workshop is provided as a service to educate and strengthen Chicago’s filmmaking community and to highlight the benefits and ease of casting professional SAG actors.

SPACE IS LIMITED!
Please RSVP by Friday, Feb. 26 to lwagner@aftra.com.

Questions? 312/573-8081

You don’t want to miss this one!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
8-10:30pm
The Underground
56 West Illinois Street
Chicago, IL 60610

Something for everyone at this shindig!
*Open bar from 8-9pm!
*FREE Appetizers
*DJ
*FREE raffle prizes
*Networking with lots of your peers

Prepay online and save $$$

WIFC, IPA & IFP Members
$5.00 Online
$10.00 At the door

Non-Members
$15.00 Online
$20.00 At the door

For more information, visit:
www.wifchicago.org

Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N. Clark, Chicago IL 60640
free admission, open to all!

Tuesday July 28, 7 - 9pm

Tuesday September 29, 7 - 9pm

This bimonthly networking event provides a chance for filmmakers to
meet and collaborate on projects. Are you a screenwriter looking for a
producer? A director looking for a director of photography? This event
is open to all talents and disciplines who are interested in making
independent media: editors, actors, art directors, composers, make-up
artists… Bring your resume and business cards, and we’ll handle the
rest. Special guests and community businesses will also be featured.

Six comedy TV pilots made by Chicago filmmakers will be featured during the
two shows of the event, on Thursday, July 23. Shows will start at 7pm and 9pm. Admission is $10 per show at The Chicago Cultural Center Theater, 78 E.
Washington St. The Festival line-up can be viewed at: www.witsendshorts.com.
Tickets are available only on the day of the event; the box office at the theater door
opens at 3pm on the day; cash sales only.

Thirty-nine comedy shorts by talented Chicago filmmakers will be featured
during the two shows of the event, on Friday, July 24. Shows will start at 7pm
and 9pm. Admission is $10 per show at The Chicago Cultural Center
Theater, 78 E. Washington St. The Festival line-up can be viewed at:
www.witsendshorts.com. Tickets are available only on the day of the event; the box office at the theater door opens at 3pm on the day; cash sales only.

BEING BUCKY
Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
2828 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL, 60657
May 28th 2009, 7pm & 9pm

Tickets are $10 and can be bought here!

IFP/Chicago Board Member John Fromstein and Fulton Market Films win the Wisconsin Film Festival Audience Award with this buckumentary about being a mascot.

When you are Bucky, you are forbidden to tell anyone. You do not get paid. You do it for the privilege of upholding a time-honored tradition. The time commitment is grueling enough. The smell of the head is worse. You never know when you’ll get to use a bathroom, but it doesn’t matter because you sweat so much. You can’t talk and you can barely see. When you are Bucky, everyone wants to shake your hand. All the girls want to hug you, and children are in awe. When you are being Bucky for the first time, you’re confused and disoriented and wondering why you ever got yourself into this. By the time you’re done, you don’t ever want to stop. Being Bucky changes you forever. Meet the seven students who play Bucky Badger, the mascot at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the 2007-2008 school year. Director Scott Smith grew up in Madison.
Directed by: Scott Smith
Director of Photography and Executive Producer: John Fromstein

Visit the film’s website for more info, to buy tickets and to watch the trailer!

http://www.beingbucky.com/

“BEING BUCKY…had the crowd howling” Duane Dudeck — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“BEING BUCKY is a badger of honor” Jane Burns — The Capital Times

RIFFRAFF
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60601
t – 312 846 2600
May 29th – June 4th

Produced by part time Columbia College faculty member John Otterbacher, the independent feature film RIFFRAFF is coming to the Gene Siskel Film Center for one week only starting May 29th.

Starring Robert Belushi, this coming of age story is set at Chicago’s North Ave. Beach and follows lifeguards through a summer there. Post Production Audio was completed with the help of a Columbia College AVM3 class taught by Diego Trejo. Many Columbia alumni participated, including cinematographer Kuba Zelazek and supervising sound editor Michael Woodnorth.

Tickets are available at the box office of the Gene Siskel Film Center and through Ticketmaster.

http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
http://www.ticketmaster.com/

For more info about schedule and cast/crew appearances go to www.riffraffthemovie.com

WIN OR LOSE: A SUMMER CAMP STORY
Highland Park Movie Theater
445 Central Ave
Highland Park, IL.
Sunday May 31st 2009, 11am & 12.15pm

The director and members of the documentary cast will be present for a Q&A after each screening.

The film is a character driven, documentary about boys at summer camp who push themselves to win an ultra competitive event called ‘Collegiate Week.’

During Collegiate Week, every person in camp wants nothing more than to win the first place trophy. Unfortunately, most of them won’t. They may leave camp without a trophy but do leave having learned a valuable lesson: how to lose. Almost all the campers that attend this camp come from the northern suburbs of Chicago such as Glencoe, Deerfield and Highland Park.

Some camps have color wars but Camp Ojibwa has Collegiate Week. It is the end-all be all of camp color-wars. There is nothing like it. Run of the mill nice kids have been known to trash their second place trophies. Older campers lose their head over a shuffle board match. Counselors will break down and cry like babies. Will an ultra competitive winner like Arob learn something about losing? And Charlie Schroeder has never won collegiate week in 9 years. Will he be able to handle another defeat? Then there is the young Jeremy Nachbar. This is his first year as a camper but he’s already giving pep talks just like the older guys. How much will camp change him? By the end of camp one thing is for sure, out of the 12 teams there will be one winner and eleven losers. Competition at Camp Ojibwa teaches kids how to lose. It’s a hard but important lesson to learn.

Buy tickets here:
http://www.winorlosemovie.com/payForHP.html

For more info, visit the film’s website:
www.winorlosemovie.com