The 14th Lake County Film Festival was held October 31 – November 3 & November 8-11.

All selected films were shown in-person at The College Of Lake County in Grayslake, in rooms A011, C105, D100, B222, and T332. Selected films had additional screenings at The Gorton Center in Lake Forest.

You can find the complete film guide at our 2023 Lake County Film Festival sub-site at https://2023.lakecountyfilmfestival.org. You can also get the complete schedule in this google doc.

Overall we showed xx feature films (xx Narrative Features & xx Documentary Features, x of which were Music Documentaries) and xx short films.

The list of films played at the film festival:

Narrative Features:
A Time Apart (d. Courtney Hope Therond)
AJ Goes To The Dog Park (d. Toby Jones)
Between The Lights (d. Michael Groom)
Bored Games (d. Joel Stern)
Fanti (d. Andy Nguyen)
Hercules Recycled 2.0 (d. Don Moriarty & Greg Alt)
Hidden Flora (d. Ryan Rox)
Him (d. Rebecca Wahls)
Inbetweening (d. Mel House)
Insular (d. Hector Valdez)
Love & Irony (d. John Biesack)
Never Not Yours (d. John Klein & Stephen Kniss)
The Premiere (d. Jon Silver)
The Problem Of The Hero (d. Shaun Dozier)
Room Six (d. Michael Panico & Matt Hobart Miller)
Wingwalker (d. Alonso Alvarez-Barreda)

Documentary Features:
Ain’t Got Time To Die (d. Martin Krafft)
Catching Bullets (d. Ben Scholle)
Dawn Dusk (d. Blue Gerber & Jason Gerber)
Everything’s Kosher (d. Adam Fried)
Fire Department, Inc. (d. Colin C. Hughes)
Food Roots (d. Michele Josue)
The Hills (d. Ines Sommer)
Out There: A National Parks Story (d. Brendan Hall)
Slice Of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts (d. Matthew Salleh)
Taking Care (d. James Keach)

Music Features:
LIFERS: A Local H Movie (d. Scott Lucas)
Resynator (d. Alison Tavel)
Scream Of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (d. Nate Pommer & Eric Weinrib)

Short Film Programs:
Adult Situations
Animated Shorts
Experimental Shorts
Lake County Shorts
Making Movies
Mind Games
Music Shorts
The Other Side
Queer Shorts
Shorts With Kids
The Souls Of Black Folk
Student Shorts: International
Student Shorts: U.S.
Support Local
Time Serving

Short Films List:
#DoudouChallenge (d. Julie Majcher, Alexandra Delaunay-Fernandez, Sixtine Emerat, Marine Benabdallah-Crolais, Scott Pardailhé-Galabrun, Noémie Segalowicz)
[INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE] (d. Kory Orban)
A Mind Of Its Own (d. C.C. Randle)
A Trip To Somewhere Else (d. Maria Sterr)
Afterschool (d. Ripa Lam)
The Ally (d. Jennifer Marie)
As Easy As Closing Your Eyes (d. Parker Croft)
Between Us (d. Minkyo Park)
The Black Dog (d. Nadia Hallgren & Jamie-James Medina)
Boat People (d. Thao Lam & Kjell Boersma)
Cakes! (d. Johnny Herbin)
Chase Me (d. Sal Ardongde)
The Chronocular Device (d. Edward Loupe)
The Cicadian Rhythm (d. Ananya Chandhok, Shannon Driscoll, Ian Gibson & Ryland Pietras)
Contagious Swagger (d. Calvin Callins Jr.)
Cottage Grove (d. George Ellzey Jr.)
Daly City (d. Nick Hartanto)
Death Grip (d. David Silset)
Dignity (d. Pat Battistini)
Don’t Forget (d. Jeremy Stuart Thompson)
Emerald City (d. Josef Steiff)
Engraved (d. Tiffany Jiang)
Facing The Falls (d. Celia Aniskovich)
Feeling The Apocalypse (d. Chen Sing Yap)
Fitting Descriptions (d. Tiffany Bedwell & John Mossman)
Golden Child (d. Hannah Levin)
Good Dad (d. Stacey Angeles)
Hair (d. Wendy Mateo & Lorena Diaz)
Handle With Care (d. Michael Glover Smith)
Happy Death Day (d. Shay Kuehlmann & Kate Roxburgh)
Hatirlama (d. Josh Folan)
Hello? (d. Mac Montero)
Henry e Sue (d. Manuel Calisti)
Hikikomori (d. Benjamin Steinberg)
The Inside Singers (d. Daniel Kolen)
Jackie | Winter Edition (d. Rafał Karnicki)
Kino Kopf (d. Jack Cosgriff)
Kombucha! (d. Jake Myers)
The Last American Gay Bar (d. Kristian Day)
Learning To Fly (d. Sam Slowik)
Little Issues (d. Jerah Milligan)
Losing Blue (d. Leanne Allison)
The Lure (d. Toni Hipwell)
Maggie’s Not Okay (d. Vance Smith)
The M3NAGE (d. Barrett Hooper)
The Mammoth in My Community (d. Sean Anderson)
Midwest Goodbye (d. Noah Tomlinson)
My Best Nut (d. David Bradburn)
My Dreams Have Been Dark Of Late (d. Joshua Warren)
My Son Went Quiet (d. Ian Bawa)
Night Milk (d. Tiger Hornby)
Night Session (d. Ballard C. Boyd)
Night Shift (d. Dexter Blanchard)
Olive Coffee (d. Dingding Luo)
Olivia (d. Juliana Corral Bustamante)
Over The Shelter (d. Ian Cardinali)
Passenger (d. Josh Aubin)
Paumo D’amour (d. Ian Halley, Nathan Hermouet, Luka Croisez, Laurène Vaubourdolle, Jade Van De Veire)
Pizza Delivery (d. Aidan Culver)
Portraits Of The Mundane (d. J.D. Lopatowski)
Quem Salva (d. Laure Devin, Maxime Bourstin, Nathan Medam, Charles Hechinger, Titouan Jaouen)
The Quilters (d. Jenifer McShane)
The Recipe (d. Tawan Bazemore)
Righteous Self (d. Matt O’Connell)
Rodent (d. Joe Fereday)
Role Model (d. J.D. Lopatowski)
Room Tone (d. Michael Gabriele)
Runaway (d. Sebastian Boneta)
Shannon Is Strange (d. Don Hessell & Alan LaFave)
Shoes (d. Mostafa Keshvari)
Spark Plug (d. Cole J Sheldon)
Sterling (d. Gunnar Sizemore)
Super Real Super Grounded (d. Margaux Susi)
Supercritical (d. John Osment)
Ten Days (d. Anastasia Savinova)
Tethered (d. Stephen T Lally)
Tina (d. Laura Sweeney)
True Lies (d. Roni Levkowitz)
Unibrow (d. Nedda Sarshar)
The Unseen (d. Francesco Guarini)
The Venus Gambit (d. Thomas Nicol)
Vibrations: Dharma Punks (d. Benjamin Steger)
Vibrations: Offerings (d. Benjamin Steger)
Vibrations: Vanguards and Guardians (d. Benjamin Steger)
We’ve Been Bamboozled! (d. Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran)

Music Videos:
BLYTH (d. Tom Dream)
Hurricane (d. Michele Benigna)
Tilt (d. Ben Nissen)