Blog: Avant/Chicago

Video Shoot Today Some of us from Chicago Comedy Film Festival got a team and crew together to enter a short film into a comedy video competition. We will do our first day (out of 2) of shooting today at...

Preview of Our Sched for '12 Jan. 24 - Laugh Out Local: Shorts of 2011 at the Hungry Brain Jan. 28 - Laugh Out Local Film Event in Elkhart, IN. Feb. 8 - America's Funniest Viral Videos at Black Rock...

Trying To Get Back In The Swing Of Posting It has been a couple weeks since we posted here. We had a nice vaca in Florida (above cell pic on the beach on X-mas Day), a great New Years with...

Year In Review - Chicago Comedy Film Festival

Another Stellar, Sunny Summer No matter where we go, the solitude and serenity of the lake house is always a constant for us. This summer was no different as we spend wonderful chunks of time along the waters. There was...

Year In Review - Video For Lotus Above is the video we directed and co-produced for Lotus. It was the lead track on their new self-titled album. During the shooting of the video, Chicago Jam Scene did a nice article...

Year In Review - Colorado on the Rocks In July we got the amazing chance to be part of Lotus on the Rocks, Red Rocks that is. It was a special few days over the 4th of July. Besides the...

Burrito Quest - Map Updated, Food Rated Its been awhile but we won't sleep too long on getting burritos up and rated once we scarf them down. We picked up a little grub before a meeting in Logan Square and...

Year In Review - Music & Photos, Exhibit A Since starting the PhD program we haven't been able to hit the number of shows we used to (over 110 p/ year in '06, '07 and '08). But we still make...

Our Year In Review Its been a busy year and we havent always been totally engaged here on the site, but there's been a load of goodness going on. Starting today we are going to start dropping some of our...

Entries Now Being Accepted for the 2nd Annual Chicago Comedy Film Festival Lots of news in the realm of CCFF. Our submission period is open. Please visit this page for more info. We are happy to announce the festival will...

Another Weekend in Michigan After a show with our good friends The Werks at the HOB tonight, were off to Michigan again just a couple weeks after our T-day jaunt. Hope to grab some of that fine, fine MI wine...

New Umphreys McGee Video We've been super-swamped in PhD land, but we'll get back to posting over X-mas break. Here is a new video we co-produced and directed that finally got released. It was shot back on Labor Day weekend...

Flaunt Magazine's Arty, Modish Video Archive From the swank edges of art, fashion and music comes a cache of lovely video from Flaunt.

Interviews To Open The Mind Culture Catch has great video interviews with some of today's seminal creators.

New Umphrey's McGee Video New video from Umphreys for Booth Love. Simple concept, cool visuals with Chicago focus and a great song. Look for a new live video coming from us for the band very soon!

"Tiger Blood" - The Vaccines Newest Video

Interview and Photos from the Lotus Video Shoot Some coverage from local music site on our Lotus video shoot at the Riviera. Nice photos and an interview with us.

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2nd Annual Pizza Film Festival This upcoming Tuesday at the Hungry Brain the Pizza Film Fest is back. Shorts films with pizza in them. Dig in on some deep dish cinema.