A Missed Connection
Matthew Weinstein
Director
Matthew Weinstein is a Chicago area based filmmaker. Since graduating from Northern Illinois University in 2011, he has been the writer, director, and editor for “Conservation Area,” “The Gun Equation,” and “A Missed Connection.”
“The Gun Equation” was featured in the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner and the 2016 Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival.
Film Information
Director: Matthew Weinstein
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 22 min.
Rated: PG-13
Credits
Producer: Megan St. John, Matthew Weinstein
Writer: Matthew Weinstein
Director of Photography: Tom Kinstle
Editor: Andrew K. Smith
Executive Producer: Paskal Pawlicki
Music: Mark Bartels
Principal Cast
Fuzzy Legs
Amber Eswani
Director
Amber Eswani is a Pakistani- American filmmaker and artist based in the suburbs of Chicago. She is a radio, television and digital media graduate with a minor in journalism from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. She has worked as a Producer for an Emmy-Award Winning Television show for PBS, a photographer for Streamy award winning webseries, an event organizer for an International Film Festival, a location’s assistant for Showtime and has just written, directed and co-produced a film called “Fuzzy Legs” which was selected to be produced and funded with Free Spirit Media in the Inpathways Cohort Program.
Film Information
Director: Amber Eswani
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 12 min.
Rated: PG
Credits
Producer: Chakka Reeves, Amber Eswani, Kayla Jones, Vunzai Yeazel
Writer: Amber Eswani
Cinematographer: Eric Liberacki II
Editor: Miles Santiago
Executive Producer: Jeff McCarter
Associate Producer: Joy Duson
Principal Cast
as Amina
as Noorin
as Jessi
as Andrew
as Josh
as Becky
as Ms. Jones
Golden Voices
Layne Marie Williams
Director
Layne Marie Williams is an award-winning director and filmmaker currently based in Chicago, IL. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the womanist film collective, Women of The Now, and Co-Founder of the five year standing The Women’s Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA. Williams has written and directed numerous movies throughout her career and recently won Best Director for the paranormal short “Golden Voices” as part of the Indiana Film Race as well as taking home the gold for Best Actor, Best Cinematographer, and Best Picture.
Film Information
Director: Layne Marie Williams
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 13 min.
Rated: PG
Credits
Producer: Grace Pisula
Writer: Zack Sievers
Director of Photography: Grace Pisula
Editor: Grace Pisula
Composer: Elliot Callighan
Principal Cast
as Radha
as Dreaming Boy
Home
Eve Rydberg
Director
Eve is a director whose diverse background as an actor, art director and producer have aided her in creating stories that stand out. She holds BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at De Paul.
‘Make Out Party’, a short film which she produced and starred in, has screened at Athens Film & Video Festival, Twist Seattle (where is won Most Innovative Short), Chicago Underground Film Festival (Honorable Mention), Las Vegas Queer Arts Festival (winner Best Production design), and Olympia Film Festival, among others.
Having previously directed music videos and experimental shorts, this will be Eve’s first venture into narrative world. She believes that by telling stories through the lens of the feminine we can bring a greater sense of balance to the world.
Film Information
Director: Eve Rydberg
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 11 min.
Rated: PG-13
Credits
Producer: Claire Wiles
Writer: Carolyn Hoerdemann, Francis Guinan
Director of Photography: Ashley Thompson
Editor: Lexi Midkiff
Principal Cast
as Emmett
as Marjory
Orin & Kepa
Caleb Peavy
Director
Recently graduated from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts with a degree in Film, Video, Animation & New Genres, Caleb Peavy currently works as a freelance grip and production assistant. He hopes to continue to share stories through documentary filmmaking
Film Information
Director: Caleb Peavy
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 12 min.
Rated: G
Credits
Camera Operator: Gabriella Cisneros
Composer: Austin Neumann
We Were Hardly More Than Children
Cecelia Condit
Director
Since 1981, Condit has created videos and heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, strength and fragility. Her work puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her “feminist fairy tales” focus on friendships, age, and most recently the natural world.
Condit has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Mary L. Nohl Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Council and the National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work shows internationally and is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Centre Georges Pompidou in France.
She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In addition, Condit received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in photography. At present, she is professor emerita in the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Formerly, she was a professor and director of the graduate program in film.
Film Information
Director: Cecelia Condit
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 9 min.
Rated: R
Credits
Producer: Cecelia Condit
Music: Renato Umali
Writer: Cecelia Condit
Key Cast: Flora Coker, Cecelia Condit
