OFFICIAL SELECTION: 12TH BLOW-UP – CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL
CHICAGO, IL. – DA VINCI FILMS has been presented with the Official Selection laurels of the 12th BLOWN-UP Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival for Arthur Balder’s AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY.
The festival, under the direction of Emmy Award-winning production designer Sergey Mavrody, describes its mission as linking “the most creative artists together with very intelligent audiences for its annual festival of narrative, musical and documentary films, shorts, animations, experimental films, and student work. The festival was named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s iconic film BLOW-UP (1966). The festival is a project of Belisso, LLC.”
VISION OF THE FESTIVAL
The official site describes the festival vision in this way:
“The festival would like to approach the caliber of films made by such great directors as Eisenstein, Antonioni, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Godard, Truffaut, Pasolini, Kurosawa, Buñuel, Norshteyn.”
| Animation Jury Chair | Mikhail Gurevich film critic, author and scholar. Chicago. | |
| Narrative Feature Jury Chair | Hisham Bizri MFA, fimmaker. Providence, Rhode Island. | |
| Narrtive Short Jury Chair | Jennifer Ann Zale PhD, film studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Chicago. | |
| Documentary Jury Chair | Eryn Walanka producer, editor, three time Emmy Winner and seven nominations. | |
| Experimental Film Jury Chair | Michael Edwards professor, University of Utah, Rhode Island School of Design. | |
| Student Film Jury Chair | Michael Apostolidis MS, Director, Screenwriter, Evanston IL. | |
| Juror | Toni Reed executive producer, director, writer, Emmy Winner. Chicago. | |
| Juror | Roger Nevares MFA, VGIK film school. Actor, director & educator, London, UK. | |
| Juror | Howard Motyl MFA, director, producer, professor, Southern Illinois University. | |
| Juror | Sonia Albert Sobrino MFA, filmmaker, professor, University of Utah. | |
| Juror | Miriam Albert Sobrino MFA, filmmaker, professor, University of Utah. | |
| Juror | Yves Nougarède Films and Programme Planning Manager. Annecy, France. | |
| Juror | Carla Barger MFA, PhD candidate, film & literature scholar, writer, instructor. | |
| Juror | Steve Anderson screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, director & video editor. | |
| Juror | M. Cleveland Brand Jr., founder Culaheev Productions Inc, est. 2002. | |
| Juror | Michael Fishman, MA, American University, New York. Screenwriter. NYC. | |
| Juror | Michael E. Harkins, BA, USC, director. Sr. Producer, Video Production at CTCA. | |
| Juror | Ramona Pozek, MA Regent University, VA. Filmmaker, Actor, Chicago. | |
| Juror | Sergei Anashkin, MFA, film critic, author and scholar. Moscow, Russia. | |
| Juror | Olga Bobrowska, author, animated film critic. Warsaw, Poland. |
