BACinema: Chicagoland Shorts

The fifth volume of the Chicagoland Shorts anthology offers a look into different worlds, with films spanning genres of narrative, experimental, and docu-fantasy, the collection will take you from an 8-year-old’s nightmares to the last remaining freed slave settlement. Artists in our collection include a Sundance Documentary Fellow, a Fulbright-García Robles Foundation Award recipient, and a Cannes award-winning director.

Curated by
Raul Benitez (Lead Programmer) – Comfort Film
Melika Bass – Filmmaker, Professor
Emily Eddy – Onion City Film Festival

The Films
I’ll Miss Jamie When She’s Gone
Director – Ashley Thompson

Smart Nightmares
Director – Melissa Tomoleo

Hall of Fishes
Director – Jennifer Boles

Sheebop! Sheebopp! Sheebopp!
Directors – Jiayi Chen and Cameron Worden

Scaling Quelccaya
Director – Meredith Leich

Exodus: Sounds of the Great Migration
Director – Lonnie Edwards

Palenque
Director – Sebastian Pinzon Silva

Please visit the website of Full Spectrum Features for more information on Chicagoland Shorts:https://www.fullspectrumfeatures.com/cls5