"Seducing Charlie Barker" Receives Domestic, International Distribution

The 2010 Geneva Film Festival winner for Best Feature Film "Seducing Charlie Barker" now has Domestic and International Distribution. ARC Entertainment is handling the domestic distribution with the film debuting theatrically on Dec 2 at select theatres across the country in conjunction with Video On Demand and Pay Per View. The DVD is scheduled for release on Valentine's Day 2012.
"Seducing Charlie Barker" also won the award for Best Male Performance (Stephen Barker Turner) and Best Female Performance (Heather Gordon) in addition to Best Feature Film.

2012 Festival News

Submissions for the 5th Annual Geneva Film Festival open on September 12th, 2011. Check back soon for details, or join our e-news list

2011 Festival News

Festival Opens April 14, featured in Daily Herald. Read more...
April 16 workshop and panel discussion will put you face to face with directors, editors, production designers, producers, cinematographers, writers, and more! Read more...
GFF Executive Director discusses films, festival on Fox Valley Voice.
Geneva Film Festival an international affair. This year's festival will feature films submitted from throughout the U.S. and from as far as Germany, Brazil and India. Read more...

GFF Announces 2011 Dates, Deadlines

The Geneva Film Festival has released key dates and submission deadlines for the 4th annual festival in 2011. Visit the 2011 GFF Film Submissions Page for details.

GFF Sponsors "Concert for a Cure" August 28, 2010

The Geneva Film Festival is a proud sponsor of the "Concert for a Cure", to benefit the Paul Ruby Foundation. The event featured live music, family fun, food vendors, auctions and more.
Get the details here.

Hoop Dreams Producer Among 2010 GFF Participants

Two major independent production companies will be screening their latest films at the Geneva Film Festival.

Kartemquin Films, the premier documentary production company in the country, best know for their award-winning film Hoop Dreams, will be screening their latest documentary TypeFace. Beverly Ridge Pictures, a new and rising independent production company from Chicago, will be screening their film Chicago Overcoat.

Visitors will have an opportunity to meet the filmmakers and producers of both of these documentaries in a question-and-answer session following the screening.

Chicago Television Premiere of "Tapioca" on WTTW

WTTW, Channel 11, presented the television premiere of Mike Houlihan's independent feature film, Tapioca, on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 12:30 a.m. The film received the Best Feature Film award at the 2008 Geneva Film Festival in Geneva, Illinois.

In a story as timely as The Great Recession of 2009, abrasive blowhard Pipes McGonnigle (Houlihan), a TV hawker for a Chicago car dealership, loses his job, gets kicked out by his wife, and runs afoul of a Streetwise vendor (Vereen) with supernatural powers, who consigns him to life as a bum by way of a hex. Former Sun-Times columnist Houlihan expanded his stand-up act of the same title and cast a host of veteran Chicago actors for this comic allegory of redemption set entirely in the grittiest of urban locations.

Tapioca stars Emmy and Tony winner Ben Vereen along with Mike Houlihan and his entire family and friends. The film also features Saturday Night Live alum Tim Kazurinsky, Greg Hollimon from "Strangers With Candy", Mark Borchardt from "American Movie", as well as Jimmy Carrane, David Pasquesi, Paul Kelly, Michael McNeal, Jack McCabe, and several other Second City veterans. Mary Carney of "Ryan's Hope" is also featured as a mystical bag lady.

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