{"id":18585,"date":"2018-07-02T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2018-07-02T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:33:08","slug":"amy-guth-head-midwest-independent-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/07\/02\/amy-guth-head-midwest-independent-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Guth to head Midwest Independent Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Amy Guth (Photo: Aubrey Boonstra)<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago journalist, author and radio personality Amy Guth has been named executive director of the Midwest Independent Film Festival.<\/a><\/p>\n

Billed as the nation's only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest filmmaker, the organization presents regionally produced independent cinema year round. Screenings are on the first Tuesday of the month at Chicago\u2019s Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828 North Clark Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmy has a strong background in multimedia storytelling, leadership and community engagement, and will be a valuable asset to the festival,\u201d co-founder Michael Kwielford said in a statement announcing her appointment, which is effective Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Midwest Independent Film Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

Guth will continue as weekend host on Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN 720-AM. This week she\u2019s also filling in for three days for Tony Sarabia as host of \u201cThe Morning Shift\u201d on Chicago Public Media WBEZ 91.5-FM.<\/p>\n

The former general manager\/publisher of RedEye Chicago and Metromix, and former social media manager for Chicago Tribune Media Group, Guth founded Pilcrow Lit Fest, an independent press publishing festival. She also was founder and co-executive director of Strangewaze, a Chicago-based content and production house delivering digital media.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne key focus for me will be creative community building, and supporting and showcasing the diversity of filmmakers in Chicago and across the Midwest,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Guth, who also serves as president of Association for Women Journalists Chicago,<\/a> has been producing a documentary film project about online harassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince beginning work on my documentary, I\u2019ve gotten a chance to meet others in the film industry here in Chicago. This role gives me a chance to support the work of filmmakers throughout the Midwest,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Christopher Thelen:<\/strong> I am saddened to hear that \"The Straight Dope\" is ending. I aspired to be like \"Cecil Adams\" when I was a music reviewer, interweaving knowledge of the subject with a smart-aleck attitude. I don't know if I ever reached either goal.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had the good fortune of interviewing Ed Zotti many years ago, and found him to be an outgoing individual who was more than happy to talk about writing and the column to a fairly unknown such as myself. He also inscribed a recent edition of columns in book form to my dad, and added in some very kind words about me. I wish Mr. Zotti well . . . and I guess \"thank you\" isn't really sufficient, but it will have to do.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago journalist, author and radio personality Amy Guth has been named executive director of the Midwest Independent Film Festival. Billed as the nation's only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest filmmaker, the organization presents regionally produced independent cinema year round. Screenings are on the first Tuesday of the month at Chicago\u2019s Landmark Century Centre... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18585"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18595,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions\/18595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}