CineYouth

  • Cinema/Chicago’s CineYouth Festival Honors 2019 Award Winners

    Filmmakers and CineYouth Program Manager Ryan Saunders following the 2019 CineYouth Awards Ceremony. Photo Credit_ Dan Hannula
    Filmmakers and CineYouth Program Manager Ryan Saunders following the 2019 CineYouth Awards Ceremony. Photo Credit_ Dan Hannula

    CineYouth Festival announced award winners for the 2019 edition led by Best Overall Film winner No Such Sunrise by 22 year olds Dana Brandes-Simon, Laura Li, and Cella Wright from Oberlin, OH. The Audience Award was won by 22 year old Kylie Murphy of Shrewsberry, NJ for her short film Mad Lib Pixie Dream Girl which screened in the “She Persisted: Women in Cinema” program.

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  • Sundance Award Winning JAWLINE to Open 2019 CineYouth

    Jawline by Liza Mandelup
    Jawline by Liza Mandelup

    Jawline, winner of the Sundance Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker, will open the 2019 CineYouth on Friday, April 26. Directed by Liza Mandelup, Jawline follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee.

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