The 9th Lake County Film Festival was held from September 5 – 10, 2019.

Screenings were held at the Grayslake & Waukegan campuses of the College Of Lake County, as well as The Gorton Center in Lake Forest, Illinois.

You can view an interactive pdf of the program, the main web page for the event, the list of attending filmmakers, and the press release archive.

In total, we showed nine narrative features, eight documentary features and 14 programs of short films, which led to a total of 65 short films.

Selected films, with screening links where available.

Narrative Features:

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Alaska Is A Drag
Another Version Of You
Eternal Winter
Olympia
Rendezvous In Chicago
QWERTY
Rich Kids
Romance Analyst

Documentary Features:

Art Paul Of Playboy: The Man Behind The Bunny
The City That Sold America
Other Music
Pizza, A Love Story
Rewind
RocKabul
Rukus
Street Fighting Men
While I Breathe, I Hope

Short Films:

Aembras (d. Chad McClarnon)
Aeternitas (d. Gordie Haakstad)
All the Men You Would Sleep With Were You Not In A Relationship With Tyler (Whom Of Course You Love)
An Accidental Drowning
And The Earth Will Be Lost To The Flames
Betty Feeds The Animals
Bob & Edgar
The Bull (d. Kelsey Egan)
Candy Shop
Cherry (d. Stacey Davis)
Come & Take It (d. Ellen Spiro & PJ Raval)
Community Patrol
Consent: A Short Comedy About A Serious Subject
The Conqueror
Cuban Canvas (d. Kavery Kaul)
Desert Rats (d. Shaz Bennett)
Five Minutes (d. Chris Zaluski, Sandy Dickson & Peter Gilbert)
Fraser Syndrome & Me (d. Kyle Anne Grendys)
Gelato – Seven Summers of Ice Cream Love (d. Daniela Opp)
Gun Shop
Happy Ending (d. Fernando González Gómez)
Her Mess (d. Zachary Goodspeed)
Hiding In Daylight (d. Cheryl Allison)
Hitchhiking To The Edge Of Sanity
Hoan Alone: Personal Stories from the Bridge
Hook Up 2.0 (Dana Nachman)
I Will Not Write Unless I Am Swaddled In Furs (d. Wade Shotter)
Illegal (d. Jesus Nebot)
Information Superhighway
Just Give Me A Minute To Change
Kim’s Big Date
Lady Parts (d. Erin Rye & Jessica Sherif)
Mary & Margaret (d. Gregory Caruso)
Memory Video (d. Roy Power)
Mio Gatto Dante (d. Will Berry)
Mushroom Park
The Musician
My Immigrant Story (d. Yuriko Gamo Romer)
My Paintbrush Bites
My View: Clem Burke (Rupert Sansom)
Nashedonia
Negroland (d. Jewel McPherson)
Noble Sissle’s Syncopated Ragtime
Passive Aggressive Dads
Peep (d. Zachary Dehm)
Pie In The Puss: A Brief History Of Pieing In Film (d. Stacey Davis)
Planet (d. Bill Sebastian”
Pozole (d. Jessica Mendez Siqueiros)
R.A.W. Tuba (d. Darren Durlach & David Larson)
The Rage of Evil: Thoughts from a Former School Shooter
The Replacement
Rock Paper Scissors (d. Brian Lawes)
Sac De Merde (d. Greg Chwerchak)
Soul Man (d. Kyle Taubken)
Step One
Still Sophie (d. Caroline Knight)
The Streets Are Ours: Two Lives Cross In Karachi
Sunrise (d. Sean Patrick Leonard)
Swipe Right
Terrolun & Lunlun (d. Hiroyuki Miyagawa)
Troll
Virtually
Waldwölfe (Forest Wolves) (d. Peter W. Allen)
White Guys Solve Sexism
Woman In Stall
Wrath (d. Jen Emma Hertel)