Each year the Chicago International Film Festival presents a fall review of the best work in independent film making. This year the film festival celebrated its 46th festival. Like previous years this event summoned movie entries from filmmakers around the globe. These films depicted storylines that represent contemporary concerns about the economy, culture and politics. These films also presented interesting demonstrations of the latest technology fads in entertainment media. One of the leading technology fads in movie entertainment this year was 3D films.
According to the Score Card Review one of this year’s most popular attractions to the Chicago International Film Festival was the “Film on Film” series, which was sponsored by DePaul University. This internationally acclaimed film series had a number of international and domestic screening, with the CIFF being just one of them.
Yelp and other blog sites provided numerous personal reviews of this year’s festival. Most of the reviews seemed to indicate that there was a great selection of genre films to choose between, and that those films that were shown were of high quality. Quality and variety are two very common characteristics that the CIFF has maintained since its first event in 1964. The quality and variety that is offered makes this event a must attend for film students, independent movie makers and movie lovers.
Now down to the best part of the CIFF, the movies. This year the display of movie posters varied from foreign language films to dramas to comedies. Some of the most popular films presented included Wasteland, Abacus and Sword and Problema. These films brougth viewers through a wide range of emotions and told stories that the general American puiblic most likely have not heard before, but stories that they can connect to as these storylines are timeless and universal in their appeal. I cannot wait until next year’s festival and I hope to see some of you there!
