Project Chicago Presents the 15th Annual
Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Fest
Nov. 9th and 10th, 2018
This Year's fest features the best short films from throughout the world. Comedies, action, drama, Horror, Demented, arts, we are showing a little of everything! So get tickets while you can!
We will be showing this years films Nov 9-10, 2018 at the Chicago Filmmakers Theater, 5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Fest
Nov. 9th and 10th, 2018
This Year's fest features the best short films from throughout the world. Comedies, action, drama, Horror, Demented, arts, we are showing a little of everything! So get tickets while you can!
We will be showing this years films Nov 9-10, 2018 at the Chicago Filmmakers Theater, 5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Tickets to this year’s festival will be available through this website (via Paypal), we do not have a convenience fee like most other ticket vendors. Tickets will also be available before each show begins.
Friday Nov. 9th Schedule
6:00PM The Friday Opening Show
Chicago Filmmakers Theater, 5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Petite Faim
7 min
Directors, Valentine ARLÈS, Lisa DOR, Benjamin DUVAL, Baptiste GALTIER, Keyvan LERICHE, Charlotte MANGIN.
France
Looking for food, two monsters will live incredible mishaps…
Summer Vacation
6 min
Director Biography - Peter Collins Campbell
Illinois
A boy and his masked friend live in a house in a white void. Their daily routine of watching tv and making beats is interrupted by freaky strangers showing up to their door.
Tin Can
22 min
Director: Pat Battistini
California
J.C. came to America as an illegal immigrant when he was just a child. Now, as an adult, he's still an illegal alien but has managed to persevere and prosper working as a rodeo clown. However, after a series of unfortunate events, J.C. finds himself down on his luck and in search for a new happiness. He eventually finds it near the Mexican border but the price he pays could get him kicked out of the only country he knows.
Alex
5 min
Dave Less, Director
Illinois
Upon hearing that her best friend has been killed in an accident, Sarah becomes dangerously obsessed with the first person she encounters after getting the news, and is haunted by a mysterious young girl.
1968
12 min
Director Alex Lubin
California
This rock musical portrays the struggle of protesters at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the strain it puts on one couple's relationship. The couple exemplifies society’s divisions with one of them continuing to preach a hopeful message of peace and love while the other craves vengeance, vulnerable to going down an angry, violent path. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of this historical event, the film not only reflects our past, but also our current divided, political climate. It proves that we must all come together to better our country, no matter who's running the government.
Hessler "Akira"
5 min
Director Craig Bass
Illinois
"Akira", is a music video based off of the song's inspiration and namesake, the formative 80's cyberpunk anime, Akira.
Scenes from a Visit
9 min
Neil Ira Needleman, Director
New York
After being away for several months, a documentary filmmaker visits the remote home his aging parents bought. During the visit, he comes to realize that the years are catching up to his octogenarian father, an artist with a vivid imagination.
Sophie Sutton
3 min
Director Robb Montgomery
Germany
A young, Welsh busker tries to make it big in Berlin.
HAMMERSMITH: Hurdle of Dreams
8 min
Director Kyle Leland
Illinois
A narcissistic filmmaker follows his dream to make awful action movies, while his cast & crew struggle to navigate his idiocy.
Sac de Merde
14 min
Director Greg Chwerchak
New York
14 min
Director Greg Chwerchak
New York
Based on a true story, "Sac de Merde" tells the tale of Mazel Mankewicz, an unlucky-in-love yet irrationally optimistic New Yorker who thinks her luck has changed when she spends the night with the man of her dreams. As it turns out, he might just be full of shit. Literally.
Friday Nov. 9th Schedule
8:00PM - The Friday Evening Show
Chicago Filmmakers Theater, 5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Heather Has Four Moms
15 min
Director Jeanette Buck
Washington, DC
Heather Has Four Moms (US/UK) 2018
Directed by Jeanette L. Buck
When Heather decides to lose her virginity for her 15th birthday, Mom’s wife must convince Mom, and Mom’s ex, and Mom’s ex’s partner that it’s time for Heather to have “the talk”. Which mom is ready to help Heather make a big decision? It’s a mother-daughter story. Times four.
Scott The Jedi
4 min
Lee Madsen, Director
Illinois
Scott Lancaster is a Jedi Warrior.
No, really.
Outpost
18 min
Director Justin Giddings, Ryan Welsh
California
When the last Citizen on the furthest outpost in space makes first contact with intelligent life, he's forced to not only protect humanity, but that which makes him human: love.
Mondays
2 min
Michael Thelin, Director
New York
When a naive office worker doesn't hold the door open for an old lady, his lack of chivalry comes back to haunt him, literally.
William Flugle's Travel Adventures with William Flugle
22 min
Will Clinger, Director
Illinois
WILLIAM FLUGLE'S TRAVEL ADVENTURES WITH WILLIAM FLUGLE is a parody of international travel shows, featuring a clueless middle-aged host blundering through European tourist destinations and leaving a trail of confused and insulted foreigners in his wake.
Sailor's Delight
6 min
France
A mermaid, Circé, is looking at her mirror, enlightened by electric globefish. A sailor's song resonates all of a sudden. Circé reveals a predatory smile and goes on the hunt. At the surface, Alan et Jacob, two sailors, fuss on their boat.
Dear Dark Lord
13 min
Ryan Eakins, Sarah Halley Corey
Illinois
A young woman struggles to find friends in Chicago while working to satisfy the whims of an ethereal being known only as 'The Dark Lord.'
BROGA: Yoga for Bros!
5 min
Director Morgan Leinwohl
California
It's time to shavasana all over the place with "BROGA: Yoga for Bros!", the world's first ever at-home Yoga program made for bros.
The Replacement
15 Min
Director Sean Miller
Illinois
On election night, a janitor feels cheated out of a life he might have lived when his own clone becomes the President. He goes on a bender to seek justice, encountering new forms of prejudice, dismissal, and classism. In a society where the morality around cloning is dividing the masses, physically looking like the newly elected President has its own dangers…
