The opening scene of “For The Nights,” a Columbia College Chicago Practicum Film.
This film stemmed from my frustration with e-readers and coming to terms with the realization that in many ways some of the things I love most in life are becoming "nostalgic," mostly books and old telephones. These are things I grew up with and will always cherish, but as technology progresses further and further, their place in the world becomes smaller and smaller. I worry for the way people interact now; so much happens on a computer screen or on a small cellphone. The chance for random interaction and happenstance, serendipity if you will, becomes harder and harder to come by as we spend more time staring at a screen and less time looking up at the world and remaining open for the chances the may come our way. We make ourselves available for the select few that we can contact instantly, but without that security blanket, we are unable to cope when the internet goes out or our phone breaks.
We created this film as our final project for our Moving Image Production class at Columbia College in Chicago (taught by the spectacular Ruth Leitman) in the fall of 2013, and were lucky enough to be one of ten films selected to show at the Take One Film Festival in April of 2014
Directed by Alex Gibney
Written & Edited by Austin Andries
Sound by Erica Butz
Produced by Shenita Murphy
Isabella Andries as Sarah
Erica Butz as Jen
Austin Andries as Sam.
A scene from the unreleased feature film Please Stop Talking.
When Ed returns home with his now pregnant fiance Meagan, his dead-beat brother Chris drags them through an exhausting evening of philosophizing, rambling, offensive, and infuriating banter.
Written & Directed by : Vincent Nigito
Edited by : Austin Andries
Caley Chase as Meagan
James Nester as Ed
Tim Martin as Chris
A scene from Columbia College Chicago’s 2015 Practicum film Amerikkka.
Following a young woman whose father was lynched at the hands of the KKK, Amerikkka forces us to ask ourselves what the right way to face injustice is. What do we let the powers that be control, and what do we take into our hands? And if we do take matters into our own hands, what are the repercussions?
Directed by : Sheila Wilson
Written by : Lauren Kilbane
Produced by : Kip Knight
Edited by : Austin Andries
Director of Photography : Steven Turco
A scene from Columbia College Chicago’s 2015 Practicum film Setting Son
When Dina’s Jewish, journalist son Eli is on assignment in the Middle East, he goes missing. A mother’s terror is turned to grief when he is discovered captured by terrorist forces.
Directed by : Rachel Rosen
Story by : Taylor Townsend
Screenplay by : Nathaniel Alder
Produced by : Aqueelah Hicks, Mario Howard
Edited by : Austin Andries, Alex Witt
Director of Photography : Bret Hamilton