Chicago – The 30th edition of the Chicago Underground Film Festival continues with the documentary “Sweetheart Deal,” co-directed by Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller, which will screen on Friday, September 15th (9pm) and Sunday, September 17th (3pm) at Harper Theatre in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. For details and ticket info, click Deal.
Four sex workers in Seattle are caught in the spiral of addiction, and turn to a self-proclaimed healer who offers friendship, refuge and a path to salvation from the streets inside the headquarters of his roadside Rv. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all. Shot in vérité style over several years, “Sweetheart Deal” offers an intimate portrait of hope, heartbreak and resilience on the fringes of modern America.
’Sweetheart Deal,’ Directed by Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller
Photo credit: CUFF30.org
A global champion of the underground scene,...
Four sex workers in Seattle are caught in the spiral of addiction, and turn to a self-proclaimed healer who offers friendship, refuge and a path to salvation from the streets inside the headquarters of his roadside Rv. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all. Shot in vérité style over several years, “Sweetheart Deal” offers an intimate portrait of hope, heartbreak and resilience on the fringes of modern America.
’Sweetheart Deal,’ Directed by Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller
Photo credit: CUFF30.org
A global champion of the underground scene,...
- 9/14/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
When we first meet Laughn Doescher – or Elliot, as he is known on the street – he’s feeding pigeons. Deftly, he slides his hands around one of them, scooping it up. “If you hold ‘em right they don’t usually struggle too much,” he says.
Elliot lives in his Rv. He says that he used to be a criminal investigator. Of course, a lot of men say things like that. Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t. What matters to the sex workers who visit him is that he treats them with kindness. They can talk with him and he really seems to listen. He feeds them. He lets them sleep there is they need to. He doesn’t think less of them because they use heroin. It’s a rare thing for women in that situation to encounter somebody they can trust.
Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller’s documentary,...
Elliot lives in his Rv. He says that he used to be a criminal investigator. Of course, a lot of men say things like that. Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t. What matters to the sex workers who visit him is that he treats them with kindness. They can talk with him and he really seems to listen. He feeds them. He lets them sleep there is they need to. He doesn’t think less of them because they use heroin. It’s a rare thing for women in that situation to encounter somebody they can trust.
Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller’s documentary,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fest unveils Narrative, Documentary, Breakouts, Spotlight, and Unstoppable programming line-ups.
Organisers at the hybrid 29th Slamdance Film Festival have announced that the word premiere of Dimitri Coats’ Free LSD will close the festival on January 20 2023 as they also unveiled Narrative, Documentary, Breakouts, Spotlight, and Unstoppable programming line-ups.
Free LSD follows an adult store owner who takes an experimental drug that provides a glimpse into a parallel universe where he is the leader of a band battling evil aliens over the future of human consciousness. Keith Morris, Coats, Autry Fulbright II, Dh Peligro, and Jack Black are among the cast.
The...
Organisers at the hybrid 29th Slamdance Film Festival have announced that the word premiere of Dimitri Coats’ Free LSD will close the festival on January 20 2023 as they also unveiled Narrative, Documentary, Breakouts, Spotlight, and Unstoppable programming line-ups.
Free LSD follows an adult store owner who takes an experimental drug that provides a glimpse into a parallel universe where he is the leader of a band battling evil aliens over the future of human consciousness. Keith Morris, Coats, Autry Fulbright II, Dh Peligro, and Jack Black are among the cast.
The...
- 12/5/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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