August 24
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Hosted by: Echo Park Film Center
The teen comedy genre gets a surrealist twist in the impressive debut feature What I Love About Concrete by co-directors Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart, and co-conspirator Brett Hanover. Dohan will be in attendace for a post-screening Q&A.
A teenage girl wakes up one morning to discover that she is slowly transforming into a swan, making her high school experience all the more awkward and confusing.
This incredibly charming film was shot over the course of several years in the Memphis, Tennessee area and was recently selected as the Opening Night film of the Chicago Underground Film Festival. By giving a creative transformation to the main charater, as well as incorporating liberal doses of great absurdist humor, the filmmakers have given the teen humor genre an original and winning spin.
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Hosted by: Echo Park Film Center
The teen comedy genre gets a surrealist twist in the impressive debut feature What I Love About Concrete by co-directors Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart, and co-conspirator Brett Hanover. Dohan will be in attendace for a post-screening Q&A.
A teenage girl wakes up one morning to discover that she is slowly transforming into a swan, making her high school experience all the more awkward and confusing.
This incredibly charming film was shot over the course of several years in the Memphis, Tennessee area and was recently selected as the Opening Night film of the Chicago Underground Film Festival. By giving a creative transformation to the main charater, as well as incorporating liberal doses of great absurdist humor, the filmmakers have given the teen humor genre an original and winning spin.
- 8/19/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The two most striking narrative features at the 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival couldn’t have been more different, even though both do originate from the American south. One is an utterly charming teen comedy while the other is a dark, mysterious and mature drama.
What I Love About Concrete opened the fest on April 2, a strong opening night choice and an extremely impressive achievement given that the film is a debut feature by three young filmmakers from Memphis — co-writers and co-directors Alanna Stewart and Katherine Dohan, and collaborator Brett Hanover.
Also strongly contributing to the film’s terrific success is Morgan Stewart (director Stewart’s younger sister) who stars as Molly Whuppie, a teenage girl who awakens in a strange house one morning covered in bird feathers. Lying next to her in bed is a dead swan. A few hours later at school, Molly literally lays an egg...
What I Love About Concrete opened the fest on April 2, a strong opening night choice and an extremely impressive achievement given that the film is a debut feature by three young filmmakers from Memphis — co-writers and co-directors Alanna Stewart and Katherine Dohan, and collaborator Brett Hanover.
Also strongly contributing to the film’s terrific success is Morgan Stewart (director Stewart’s younger sister) who stars as Molly Whuppie, a teenage girl who awakens in a strange house one morning covered in bird feathers. Lying next to her in bed is a dead swan. A few hours later at school, Molly literally lays an egg...
- 4/14/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 21st annual Chicago Underground FIlm Festival, which ran April 2-6 at the Logan Theatre, has announced their list of award winners.
Winners were decided by a three-panel jury that included Brian Chankin, owner of the Odd Obsession Movies video store in Chicago; Alison Cuddy, the arts and culture reporter for Wbez 91.5 FM Chicago Public Media; and Mike Everleth, editor of the Underground Film Journal.
In total, the jury gave out eight official awards, which are listed below. In addition, given the incredibly strong lineup of films that screened at the festival, a total of 11 Honorable Mentions were also given out, and are listed below as well.
To add a personal note, it was a pleasure and and honor to serve on the jury with Brian and Alison, and our decisions came to us fairly easily, which is a testament to the strength of the work that was made and...
Winners were decided by a three-panel jury that included Brian Chankin, owner of the Odd Obsession Movies video store in Chicago; Alison Cuddy, the arts and culture reporter for Wbez 91.5 FM Chicago Public Media; and Mike Everleth, editor of the Underground Film Journal.
In total, the jury gave out eight official awards, which are listed below. In addition, given the incredibly strong lineup of films that screened at the festival, a total of 11 Honorable Mentions were also given out, and are listed below as well.
To add a personal note, it was a pleasure and and honor to serve on the jury with Brian and Alison, and our decisions came to us fairly easily, which is a testament to the strength of the work that was made and...
- 4/9/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which will run April 2-6 at the Logan Theater, will be extra special this year. Why? Because Mike Everleth, the Executive Editor of the Underground Film Journal, is sitting on this year’s festival jury! And looking over the fest lineup below, he is incredibly excited to witness this visual extravaganza of revolutionary cinematic madness. (Other jurors are Brian Chankin, Therese Grisham and Alison Cuddy.)
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
- 3/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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