TV Academy Members and their guests are invited to the IFP/Chicago Facets Film Series Screening of short films from the Movieside Film Festival with director Rusty Nails

Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Facets Cinemateque, 1517 W. Fullerton, Chicago
7 p.m. Screening and Seminar
Free and open to the public

The shorts will include:

ALGREN'S LAST NIGHT
A short film homage to one of Chicago's greatest writers... Nelson Algren. Directed by Carmine Cervi and Warren Leming.
(6 mins.) 2003
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PELUCA
The short that would later be expanded into Napoleon Dynamite by Jared Hess. This is hilarious!
(8 mins.) 2003

MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER
An abstract portrait and personal examination of a young woman.
(5 mins.)
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CUSHION
A trailer trash not-so-love story. Directed by Alexander Rojas. This film was part of the Slamdance 2005 program.
(15 mins.)
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PRETTY THINGS
Michael Lucid is one of the funniest people ever to use a video camera. Another Slamdance 2005 participant.
(5 minutes)
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DAS NEUE MONSTER
A lonely woman Frankenstein awakens to a new life with a sense of confusion and awe. Directed by Kate McCabe.
(5 mins.)
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MONKEY WALKEN
Christoper Walken's monkey doppelganger shares his "tales" of woe and awe. Directed by Jason Woliner & James Dean Conklin
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The Movieside Film Festival is the largest short film festival in the world and finds its home in Chicago. In the past four years Movieside has screened over 400 short films by film makers from all over the world including works by David Cronenberg, Christine Hart, Guy Maddin, Sarina Khan Rheddy, Doug Lussenhopp, Kirsten Stoltmann, David Lynch, Bridget Farr, Nathan Pommer and many many more. The festival has been hosted by independent film mavericks such as John Waters, Jim Jarmusch and George A. Romero. Movieside has toured to Boston, Maine, Seattle, New York, Kentucky and will continue to tour in the future. For complete information go www.movieside.com.

Rusty Nails is filmmaker, actor, teacher, writer, and director of the Movieside Film Festival. His new film ACNE is currently for sale at www.facets.org. Rusty is currently in post-production of a documentary called HIGHWAY ROBBERY - this is the story of a 65 year-old blind veteran whose land was taken from him via eminent domain to enable a 17 million dollar highway to be built on his property which includes wetlands and Native American burial grounds. He is also working on a documentary about George A. Romero titled DEAD ON: The life and cinema of George A. Romero. Mr. Nails has written for Independent Film & Video, Stop Smiling, and Supersphere.com.

For more information, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . The event is free and open to the public.

As seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, your early arrival is suggested. No one will be admitted once theatre capacity is reached.