Chicago – The short film, once considered the lesser cousin of features, and seen mostly in obscurity, has had a major revival and influence in the age of YouTube. At the 2010 Chicago International Film Festival, the Illinois Short Filmmaker night brought out the best of locally produced film shorts on October 11th.
HollywoodChicago.com caught up with seven of the participating filmmakers that night, as they spoke about their particular film shorts.
Illinois Short Filmmakers at the Chicago International Film Festival, October 11th, 2010
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com
Wenhwa Ts’ao, Director of “Arithmetic Lessons”
Arithmetic Lessons is a devastating study of a Chinese family in crisis, as the mother is dying and her daughter is trapped in an abuse situation with her female caregiver.
‘Arithmetic Lessons,’ Directed by Wenhwa Ts’ao
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
HollywoodChicago.com: Typically, the Chinese culture is seen as a somewhat repressed patriarchal society,...
HollywoodChicago.com caught up with seven of the participating filmmakers that night, as they spoke about their particular film shorts.
Illinois Short Filmmakers at the Chicago International Film Festival, October 11th, 2010
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com
Wenhwa Ts’ao, Director of “Arithmetic Lessons”
Arithmetic Lessons is a devastating study of a Chinese family in crisis, as the mother is dying and her daughter is trapped in an abuse situation with her female caregiver.
‘Arithmetic Lessons,’ Directed by Wenhwa Ts’ao
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
HollywoodChicago.com: Typically, the Chinese culture is seen as a somewhat repressed patriarchal society,...
- 10/21/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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