Thanks to one of our MovieClubbers for picking February’s film:
An Acceptable Loss (2018) by Joe Chappelle

Sit back, pop your corn, and channel your inner Ebert!
Please watch this film ahead of time (available on Prime Video), then join us for a Zoom conversation moderated by IFA’s very own Director of Strategic Initiatives, Betsy Steinberg on Wed., Feb. 02.10.21. (Members only.)

We are super excited to have Producer of this film, Colleen Griffen, join us!

COLLEEN GRIFFEN (Producer) Aside from being Joe Chappelle’s producing partner since 1995, Colleen Griffen wrote, directed, and produced the mockumentary web series, boyband, which was acquired by Fullscreen and Audience Network in May of 2016. She also wrote and produced her feature directorial debut, The Cold and the Quiet in 2013, which won both Best Narrative and Best Direction at the Women’s Independent Film Festival in L.A. In addition, Colleen has produced two other feature films—Already Dead (2007) for Sony Pictures and Thieves Quartet (1994) for Joe Chappelle. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A.) and Northwestern University (M.F.A.), Griffen has taught film at both Northwestern and Columbia College in Chicago.

In 2017, Chappelle (wrote and directed) and Griffen produced the independent feature film, An Acceptable Loss starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tika Sumpter.

Discussion: 02.10.21 at 6 p.m.