News Archive
Category: Festival News
October 17, 2018
Attending Filmmakers: Gaopeng Tang and Qi Xiaojing
Festival News
The Chicago International Film Festival is very excited to welcome the director and star of The Road Not Taken, Gaopeng Tang and Qi Xiaojing. The film's protagonist is a bumbling ostrich farmer, indebted to the local mob. He agrees to take care of a sullen kidnapped boy until his father pays ...
October 16, 2018
Attending Filmmaker: Meritxell Colell Aparicio
Festival News
The Chicago International Film Festival is very excited to welcome the director of Facing the Wind, Meritxell Colell Aparicio. The film begins when choreographer Mónica returns to the small Spanish village where she was born to visit her father on his deathbed. Arriving too late, she is left ...
October 15, 2018
Duelles – Filmmaker Attendance Update
Festival News
Unfortunately, Duelles director Olivier Masset-Depasse will no longer be attending the screenings of his film at this year's Chicago International Film Festival, including today's screening, Monday, October 15 at 8:30pm.
October 15, 2018
Attending Filmmaker: McKenzie Chinn
Festival News
The Chicago International Film Festival is very excited to welcome the writer, producer, and lead actress of Olympia, McKenzie Chinn. Featuring quirky animation and a revelatory central performance, Olympia is a heartfelt story for anyone who’s ever felt adrift on the rough seas of adulthood....
October 14, 2018
Attending Filmmaker: Kent Jones
Festival News
The Chicago International Film Festival is very excited to welcome the director of Diane, Kent Jones. Mary Kay Place (The Big Chill, Big Love) delivers a stunning career-best performance as Diane, a woman weighed down by the simmering guilt of a past transgression. Now, after years of regret,...
