CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Podtalk: Writer/Director Alex Heller on ‘The Year Between,’ Releasing on VOD March 3, 2023
CHICAGO – It’s been an amazing journey for actor and filmmaker Alex Heller with her directorial debut film “The Year Between.” The film premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and screened at the hometown Chicago International Film Festival last October. The film is being released through Video-On-Demand beginning March 3rd, 2023.
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Alex Heller wrote and directed “The Year Between,” and portrays Clemence, a college drop out who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Although such mental conditions are hard to capture in storytelling, Heller as Clemence takes us on the journey, coming home to torture her parents (Steve Buscemi and J Smith-Cameron) and siblings (Emily Robinson and Wyatt Oleff) as she works through the affliction.
Writer/Director/Lead Actor Alex Heller in ‘The Year Between’
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In Part One an Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, writer/director Alex Heller talks about her story in associated with “The Year Between” …
In Part Two, of juggling actor/director roles, Steve Buscemi and getting to The Tribeca Film Festival debut …
In a October of 2022 video clip from the interview, Alex ponders lunch with her character Clemence …
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