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Arts & Entertainment

Shorts from the Windy City, Presented by the Talking Pictures Festival

Percolator Films, Neighbor

Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival presents an exceptional lineup of independent films from March 8-11.

The arts soar in this great collection of Chicago-produced shorts: renowned documentarian Maria Finitzo directs a fictionalized account of her childhood ballet classes at Chicago’s legendary Stone Camryn School of Ballet in LIFE LESSONS; GIORGIO is Lisa Gildehaus’ humorous portrait of a showy Venetian street painter; and Mark Rogovin’s short BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT focuses on a cycle of late 1950s photographs of Black storefront churches by his father, noted photographer Milton Rogovin. Tom Palazzolo, who has been making films in Chicago since the 1960s, brings us VIVIAN MAIER PHOTOGRAPHER, a new short dedicated to the life, photography and mystery of street-photographer Vivian Maier. Also on the program are Julianne Hill’s lovely personal essay SO, MARY? and Mitch Apley’s hilarious take on magic realism and relationships in LIGHTER LIGHTNESS.

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

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