Wheaton-Glen Ellyn AAUW hosts third Lunafest film fest Oct. 15
The American Assocation of University Women-Wheaton-Glen Ellyn Branch invites the community to the third Lunafest Traveling Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 15.
This fundraiser, coordinated by LUNA Corporation, features films written and produced by women to promote awareness about women's issues, to highlight women filmmakers, and to bring people together in their communities to engage in the arts.
The festival will be held from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at The Center Stage Theater, 1665 Quincy Ave. in Naperville. The doors open at 5 p.m. with the film screenings from 6 to 7:30 p.m., followed by the raffle drawing, coffee and dessert from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
These short films each pack a punch as they hone in on a women's and/or world issue.
The 2022 season features eight short films with a total running time of 80 minutes.
The $50 tickets will include a reception features an assortment of hors d'oeuvres and a beer and wine cash bar.
Ticket information will be available at wheatonglenellyn-il.aauw.net and the branch's Facebook page. You can email questions to petalpower1@yahoo.com.
For the past 21 years, Lunafest Traveling Film Festival has celebrated a powerful and diverse set of women filmmakers and given their short films a national platform. Since its first screening in California, the film fest has featured the work of more than 170 women filmmakers, raising over $6.5 million for local women's causes.
• In "Generation Impact: The Coder" by Brooklyn filmmaker Samantha Knowles, a 13-year-old girl designs and builds a mobile app to help kids stay connected to their incarcerated parents by sending photos and letters.
• "How to Be at Home" by filmmaker Andrea Dorfman of Halifax, Nova Scotia features an animated poem about coping with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• In "Close Ties to Home Country" by Chicago filmmaker Akanksha Cruczynski, an immigrant dog walker finds connection in the hearts of the wealthy pets she cares for.
• In "Proof of Loss" by L.A. filmmaker Katherine Fisher, when a fire takes their home, a father and daughter must find a way to salvage what remains: each other.
• Frustrated with the lack of character diversity in The New Yorker's cartoons, an artist submits her own illustrations, becoming the first Black woman cartoonist in the magazine's near-century run in "Between the Lines: Liz at Large" by filmmaker Abi Cole of Weaverville, North Carolina.
• In "Wearable Tracy" by filmmaker Emily McAllister of Carnelian Bay, California, a Bronx woman's accidental social experiment connects her with fellow New Yorkers who might otherwise forever remain strangers.
• In "When You Clean A Stranger's Home" by Austin, Texas filmmaker Sharon Arteaga, a first-generation high school student describes what she and her mom learn about people when cleaning their homes.
• An animated self-portrait of a nonbinary trans teen caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his dreams of living happily ever after with his long-distance boyfriend in "To the Future, with Love" by L.A. filmmakers Shaleece Haas and Hunter "Pixel" Jimenez.