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SUMMARY:Lake County Film Festival: GORTON SELECTED SHORTS
DESCRIPTION:The Lake County Film Festival returns for its milestone 15th edition\, bringing an exciting and diverse slate of films to local audiences from September 4–7 and September 12–15\, 2025. The festival will screen more than 134 films\, including 17 feature-length films and over 120 short films from around the world. \nGorton Center is proud to be one of the screening venues and offer a curated selection of short films from the festival catalogue! Some filmmakers will be in attendance for a post-show Q & A!\nCheck Please – Narrative • Action/Comedy • USA • 2025 • 10 Minutes\nTwo headstrong Koreans can’t agree on who’s treating who to dinner\, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.\nUndeletable – Narrative • Drama/Comedy • UK • 2024 • 7 Minutes\nEmma has to inform her dad’s recently confessed lover that he has died but the painful mistakes she makes whilst recording this answerphone message confronts her with a brutal truth about the remorseless forward nature of time.\nWolf – Narrative • Drama/Comedy • UK • 2024 • 15 Minutes\nHalloween proves to be a time of reflection and change for two long-term friends.\nChips or Crackers – Narrative • Comedy • USA • 2025 • 3 Minutes\nA simple goodbye turns into an awkward predicament.\nMy Last Martini – Narrative • Drama/Comedy • USA • 2024 • 14 Minutes\nOne evening at an elegant cocktail lounge\, a frustrated writer is joined by a mysterious woman who drifts over from the next booth\, looking for a good listener.\nTe Seguire a la Oscuridad –Narrative • Comedy • USA • 2024 • 10 Minutes\nA driven high school student in 2005 obsessively studies Spanish all year so she can test up a level into her crush’s class.\nFear-ish – Narrative • Iran • 2024 • 4 Minutes\nA hungry fish searches for food in its aquarium\, but its world is suddenly disrupted when it is struck by something unexpected.\nFlavor of the Month – Narrative • Comedy/Drama • USA • 2025 • 13 Minutes\nA B-list Chinese actor fears being replaced as “Hollywood’s Asian” while screen testing for a life-changing role.\n\nThe Piano – Narrative • Family-Friendly • USA • 2025 • 8 Minutes\nOne night\, a young girl discovers her father bent over the keys at the piano\, sparking a lifelong bond that resonates far beyond their final note.\nCoconut Girl – Narrative • Drama • USA • 2024 • 12 Minutes\nSwetha\, the young child of Indian immigrants\, struggles to accept her heritage when she gets bullied at school for the coconut oil in her hair.\n\nRetirement Plan – Narrative • Ireland • 2025 • 7 Minutes\nAt apathy with his life\, Ray dreams of the beauty and joy he will find in retirement.
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/selected-short-film-festival/
LOCATION:Gorton Center – John & Nancy Hughes Theater\, 400 E. Illinois Road\, Lake Forest\, IL\, 60045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Lake County Film Festival Closing Night Feature: SPEAK.
DESCRIPTION:The Lake County Film Festival returns for its milestone 15th edition\, bringing an exciting and diverse slate of films to local audiences from September 4–7 and September 12–15\, 2025. The festival will screen more than 134 films\, including 17 feature-length films and over 120 short films from around the world. \nGorton Center is proud to be hosting the closing night feature film\, “Speak.”!\nABOUT THE FILM \nLOGLINE \nFive top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competitions. \nLONG SYNOPSIS \nSPEAK follows five of the nation’s top teenage speech competitors\, capturing the euphoria of victory and the devastation of defeat as they craft and perform original oratories over the course of a 9-month season. Their dream is simple: To win the Super Bowl of public speaking\, the NSDA Nationals. \nWe witness them\, their coaches and their parents as they fight to keep school speech programs alive amid budget cuts\, book bans and censorship efforts that reach a fevered pitch during the 2024 election year. \nThe film begins at the 2023 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) Championships\, introducing our eclectic orators: Noor\, Noah\, Sam\, Mfaz and Esther\, the two-time reigning national champion in Oratory. We follow them to the 2024 Nationals\, where Esther hopes to beat the record set by SPEAK’s Executive Producer\, Josh Gad\, in 1999. \nSPEAK captures the passion\, joy—and courage—of unforgettable teens using their voices to change hearts and minds. This film is the perfect antidote for these fraught times—intense\, funny\, and most of all\, hopeful. \nDirectorsJennifer Tiexiera\, Guy Mossman\nStars: Esther\, Mfaz\, Noah
URL:https://gortoncenter.org/event/lake-county-film-festival-closing-night-feature-speak/
LOCATION:Gorton Center – John & Nancy Hughes Theater\, 400 E. Illinois Road\, Lake Forest\, IL\, 60045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Independent
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