Oakton's film fest showcases 4 award-winning flicks

Posted November 26, 2015 10:00 pm

Submitted by Oakton Community College

Movie aficionados, bring the popcorn for the Pop up Film Festival, featuring four innovative and exciting motion pictures by independent filmmakers over four days. This free interactive festival runs Dec. 1-4, at Oakton's Footlik Theater, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines.

Selections include:

• "Actress." Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 2 p.m. This winner of the Best Documentary at the Nantucket Film Festival features Brandy Burre, an actress best known for a recurring role on HBO's acclaimed series "The Wire." When Burre retires from acting and moves to a small town with her boyfriend and two young children, she finds herself playing the new roles of "mother" and "housewife" full time. Followed by a Q&A with director Robert Greene and actress Brandy Burre.

• "Black Box." Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 12:30 p.m. Named one of the best films of 2014 by the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips, this haunting drama centers on college theater students grappling with issues pertaining to sexual and religious identity. Enjoy a Q&A with director Stephen Cone after the screening.

• "Transformer: The Premake." Thursday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m. This selection of the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival is an intellectually vibrant and viscerally pounding half-hour of pure cinema. A playful inquiry into the role of social media in the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster, the film utilizes footage shot behind the scenes of the Chicago-made segments of "Transformers: Age of Extinction," as well as footage shot and uploaded to YouTube by hundreds of amateur filmmakers. Participate in a Q&A with director Kevin B. Lee after the showing.

• "Cool Apocalypse." Friday, Dec. 4, at 12:30 p.m. Winner of the Best Dramatic Feature award at the 2015 Illinois International Film Festival, this comedy/drama filmed in Chicago tells the story of two very different relationships, one of which is about to begin and the other of which has just ended. Followed by a Q&A with director Michael Smith, also an Oakton humanities lecturer.

The film fest is sponsored by a generous grant from the Oakton Educational Foundation. For more information, visit www.oakton.edu.

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