A Chicago filmmaker's feature film will debut at the Chicago International Film Festival, which opens Wednesday night.
There's a struggling writer-actor who lives in the shadow of his brother, a TV star whose privileged life is about to explode. "I just feel like Chicago is such a beautiful city, and there's such an array of people," she said. "Telling a family story in the town where I grew up was really meaningful to me. I hope people can relate to the characters, and homecoming in a way, and being confronted with issues from childhood that never got resolved. ""Our main location is in Irving Park, we needed a traditional Chicago two flat," Rose said.