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You Have No Idea + Short Selections

July 21, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm

$15
You Have No Idea (Still)

You Have No Idea

Feature Documentary
Directors: Alexander Jeffrey & Paul Petersen
Country of Origin: United States

When Beth’s son Evan James was diagnosed with Autism in the early 90s, treatment options were limited. Doctors offered no practical advice for daily living and advised Beth to limit his social interactions. Rejecting these notions, Beth sets out to provide her son with a life filled with purpose and friendship. This heartfelt film is a sweet testament to the power of love and community by following a determined mom advocating for her son.



Preceded by

Yellowstone 88 – Song of Fire

Short Narrative
Directors: Jerry van de Beek & Betsy De Fries
Country of Origin: United States

In the summer of 1988, dry lightning sparked a fire in the parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Park, igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 million perimeter acres of the park. Song of Fire, a narrative poem, guides the animation of Yellowstone 88 telling the story of this conflagration that raged unabated for months until a snow of such intense severity extinguished the flames. That winter surviving Fauna, exhausted from fire and weakened by hunger, die in greater numbers than those claimed by the fire. The cosmos turns from one season to another and another and life in the park begins anew.

Folaine

Short Documentary
Director: Margaret Kilcoyne
Country of Origin: Ireland

A short documentary that chronicles a holy well and a wise woman named Attracta of which there are 40 wells named after this particular saint in South Sligo in the North-West of Ireland. Links the idea of wells and sacred space with well-being and mental health. The beating of a beast.

Andrew After Angola

Short Documentary
Director: Will LaCalle
Country of Origin: United States

Follow a re-entry program created to help former prisoners rebuild their lives in Louisiana and explore the complex background of the program’s founder, Andrew Hundley. Andrew is in a unique position to speak to this experience, having spent years in Louisiana’s largest prison, Angola, for a crime he committed at age 15. Andrew After Angola raises tough questions, namely, whether Andrew and the people he works with deserve a second chance.

Details

Date:
July 21, 2023
Time:
7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Cost:
$15
Event Category:

Organizer

BWiFF
Phone
224.836.4589
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Venue

Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60660
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Phone
773.293.1447
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