Mon 2/17 @ 7PM
Tue 2/18 @ 7PM
Wed 2/19 @ 7PM
Thu 2/20 @ 5:30PM
The Chagrin Documentary Film Festival will be hosting its 16h annual event in October, but recently, it’s been adding year-round programs to whet appetites for the big event.
This week, it will be presenting a series of evenings called “Celebrating NEO Filmmakers Series,” taking place at CDFF on the Triangle at 3 North Franklin in downtown Chagrin Falls.
On Monday it’s offering a program of four short films with roots in Northeast Ohio including Winston’s Ghost: The Photography of Ryan Gustman, Hidden in Plain Sight, Olympic Oaks and Once Upon a Time in Sports. Tuesday and Wednesday are devoted to feature documentaries, with a pair of films Cleveland director John Vourlis’s Breaking Balls, about a long-running Northeast Ohio bocce tournament, and Lovely Jackson, directed by Chagrin Falls’ own Matt Waldeck, who joins an exonerated man on a trio back to the prison where he was first incarcerated 39 years earlier.
Then on Thursday, join Waldeck, Vourlis, actor James Madio and Bill Garvey, president of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, for a panel discussion moderated by Brian Glazen, president of Think Media Studios.
Go here for tickets to all four nights.