Podtalk: Exec Director Erica Duffy on 2023 Midwest Film Fest Opening Night

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CHICAGO – It’s 2023 for the Midwest Film Festival. The Chicago institution – the only ongoing monthly film fest in the city – has their Opening night on Monday, January 30th, 2023, with a screening of the 2022 “Best of the Midwest” short films.

Six Shorts are in the program, top honorees at the BMA Awards … “La Folie” (directed by Danielle Batson), “Repeater” (Carbon Creative Studio), “Rough River Lake” (Mary Tilden), “Heartsong” (Aurora Real de Asua), “Period Drama” (Anushka Tina Nair and Lauryn Anthony) and “Fish Eye” (Colin Parker). For advanced tickets and info, click MFF OPENING NIGHT.

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Opening Night Beginning at 6:30pm
Photo credit: MidwestFilm.com

The Midwest Film Festival has been a staple in Chicago’s film community for 15 years. At the beginning of 2020, it reinvented the concept with a a new outlook, facilitated by Executive Director Erica Duffy. During the Best of the Midwest Awards in November, it celebrated being one of the most influential, popular and provocative film festivals in the city of Chicago.

In a Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Executive Director Erica Duffy of the Midwest Film Festival talks about the upcoming year for the Midwest Film Festival …

Erica on Video via Zoom, talking resolutions for 2023 …

The Midwest Film Festival Presents the BEST OF THE MIDWEST AWARDS WINNERS SHOWCASE, beginning at 6:30pm on Monday, January 30th, 2023, at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street, Chicago. For more information on The Midwest Film Festival, click here.

HollywoodChicago.com senior staff writer Patrick McDonald

By PATRICK McDONALD
Editor and Film Critic/Writer
HollywoodChicago.com
pat@hollywoodchicago.com

© 2023 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com

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