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Director's Film Competes In Critics' Contest
A 24-year-old Niles film student has made a short film with a Niles child actor, and it will compete in the Chicago Film Critics Association contest Feb. 8. But it's only happening because of his quick thinking when a key actor bailed at the last minute.
A producer who didn't show up. A key actor who bailed just before filming was to start. A shoot that got rained out, and a bar manager who didn't want them to film in his pub. Student filmmaker Steve Yasell, 24, of Niles, faced all those glitches when trying to make a film for his Directing 3 course at Columbia College in Chicago, from which he hopes to graduate this year. He persevered, and his film "The Man" will screen during a Chicago Film Critics Association Emerging Filmmakers competition Feb. 8 at Muvico Theater in Rosemont. Yasell, who attended St. John Brebeuf School in Niles and Maine East High School in Park Ridge, was one of eight selected from more than 20 students at Columbia to direct a short film. He wrote nine drafts …
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Jac Charlier
11:11 am on Friday, January 18, 2013
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