First Tuesdays with the
Here it is... our complete lineup for the inaugural Advertising Community Shorts Night
Presented by AICP Midwest and a host of outstanding Midwest businesses!
WORLD PREMIERE! CRY BABY. Directed by award-winning filmmaker and
commercial creative director Scott Smith, produced by John Fromstein and Fulton
Market Films.
SUGAR (pictured right). The imagination of a waiter runs wild when a beautiful patron asks him for sugar in her coffee. Directed by Alex Beh, featuring the production talents of DDB Chicago, Protokulture, Optimus, Hootennany, Dot and Cross and Essence Films.
CHICAGO PREMIERE! SEE NO EVIL. Dramatic thriller from Indianapolis commercial producer Joel Umbaugh of Road Pictures, an AICP Midwest company.
CHICAGO PREMIERE! THE CHICKEN. An animated short from Michigan filmmakers Glenn Parsons and Greg Meloche of Kinetic Post (pictured right).
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER. A couple disagrees about whether or not to attend a film festival. A comedy of errors ensues. From K.C. and Kipp Norman of Elephant Filmworks.
WORLD PREMIERE! WORST DATE EVER. Comedic short directed by Michael Chaves, produced by One at Optimus, an AICP Midwest company.
WORLD PREMIERE FILMS FROM TIM BIEBER. A pair of documentary shorts from Tim Bieber, a commercial director for Mr. Big Film, an AICP Midwest company.
A NEPHILIM GRIEVES (pictured right).
An aesthetically mesmerizing journey between dreams and actuality, A
NEPHILIM GRIEVES explores the storytelling mediums of poetry, art and
film. Director Anna Patel and executive producer Samantha Hart hail
from Foundation Content, a a commercial post/production facility in
Chicago.
WORLD PREMIERE! MUSTACHE RIDE. A music video created to promote the international charity Men of Movember. Created by Arc Worldwide creative directors Michael Starcevich and Tony Rogers.
ODD SHOE. A young boy with battered old trainers discovers life has new meaning when he chances on a brand new pair of leather shoes. Directed by Paul Cotter, formerly of Chicago's Z Group Films.
WORLD PREMIERE! A LIFETIME UNDERGROUND. A short documentary focusing on musician and Iowan, William Elliott Whitmore, who discusses the influence of his house - a converted corn crib cabin in southern Iowa - on his music. Directed by Joel Anderson of Optimus.
CHICAGO PREMIERE! JUICED AND JAZZED. In prohibition era 1920s, hot jazz music overcomes a young woman named Lulu after she stumbles upon a flask. Juiced and Jazzed was created entirely in Minneapolis and was directed by native Minnesotan Justin Weber. Directed by Minnesota filmmaker Justin Weber of Minnesota-based motion graphics studio Make, an AICP-Midwest production company.
