The “Community Voices” class documentary film Why We Race(Kiley Vorndran, Ryan Westra, Andrew Evers, Ben Fischinger) is one of five student films nominated for the IDA Student Documentary Award from the International Documentary Association. The awards ceremony will be held on December 6.
Burmese Refugee(Michael Tacca) screens this week at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival in PA.
If We Were Adults(Michael Fitzgerald) screens this week at the LA Comedy Film Festival.
Gay 4 Pay(Austin Vuz) screens at Reeling: Chicago LGBT Int”l Film Festival in Illinois.
Light Me Up(Derek Dolechek & Ryan Walton)screens this week at the Munich Int”l Festival of Film Schools in Germany.
3 Chapman films won awards at the Eugene Int”l Film Festival in Oregon last week:Home (Jason Pangilinan) won Best Narrative Short, Light Me Up (Derek Dolechek & Ryan Walton) won Best Animation Short, and Sunday Sundaes (Shayna Cohen) won Best Youth Theme Short.
4 Chapman films screen this week at the St. Louis Int”l Film Festival in Missouri: Blue (Katelyn Bianchini, Rena Cheng, Asia Lancaster), Shoelace (Luis Soto), Sunday Sundaes (Shayna Cohen) and What I Hate About Myself (Bobby Moser & Ben Mullinkosson).
2 Chapman films won awards at the Funny Shorts Movie Night at the Boston Comedy Festival in Massachusetts last week: The Guy Who”s F*cking Your Girlfriend (Shane McCarthy) won Best Comedy and Incest! The Musical (Grant Reed) won Honorable Mention.
2 Chapman films screen at theSociety for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Ethnographic Film Festival in Chicago, IL.: The Stars Know Our Home(Gregg Lillie, Dhruv Sharma, Kelsie Steinke, Marc Shuller, Tyler Gurd)and There is No Place for You Here(Elliott Balsley, Sam Price-Waldman, Haley Quartarone, Ruby Stocking).
3 Chapman films screen this week at theStarz Denver Film Festival in Colorado: Capstone”s Oak (Will Phelps), If We Were Adults (Michael Fitzgerald), and Straight Down Low (Zach Wechter).
4 Chapman films screen this week at the River”s Edge Int”l Film Festival in Kentucky:Green Acres (James Beck), Light Me Up (Derek Dolechek & Ryan Walton), Pray Me Down (Dan Carr), and There Is No God and We All Die Alone (Harrison Givens).
2 Chapman films screen this week at the Santa Cruz Film Festival in California: Light Me Up (Derek Dolechek & Ryan Walton) and Straight Down Low (Zach Wechter).