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08/20/2026

Enjoy the sweet dwindling days of summer with the Super Sweet Shorts Show from our good friends at Good Candy Films this Saturday, August 22 from 11:00am to 2:00pm at FACETS! Featuring a menu of delectable local cinema, it'll be a satisfying start to your Saturday! 🎥 🍭 🎬 🍬

Tickets available at the link below! Tickets MUST be purchased in advance! There will be NO sales at the door!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/good-candy-films-presents-film-premieres-super-sweet-shorts-show-tickets-1994399297988

08/18/2026

More gouda news for GRILLED CHEESE: Selection into the TromaDance film festival! Congratulations to Connar, Tommy, and the brie-lliant cast and crew for this latest a-cheese-ment! 🎬 🧀 🎉

08/13/2026

A summer of pre-production meetings! 🎥 🦃 🎬 🔪

Photos by Nathan Oelker

08/11/2026

GRILLED CHEESE continues its legen-dairy run with another festival and a new local screening! 🎬 🧀 🎉

In festival news: GRILLED CHEESE has been selected for the Horror Fest Film Festival, where it will be playing in Delaware in September! Congratulations to Connar, Tommy, and their whole crew!

In local screening news: GRILLED CHEESE will be playing as part of The Massacre Movie Marathon at the Pickwick Theater on Saturday, October 10! Tickets are available for that screening now at the link below!
https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/terrorintheaisles/the-massacre-horror-movie-marathon

Gouda news all around for this brie-lliant short film!

08/06/2026

A new project is cooking. 🎥 🦃 🎬 🔪

Photos by Nathan Oelker

08/04/2026

GRILLED CHEESE has been selected for its FOURTH festival: Moonlighters no. 4, screening next Wednesday, August 12 at the Davis Theater in Chicago! Grate news that this brie-lliant short film will be having its third local screening! Gouda job to Connar, Tommy, and the whole cast and crew for this latest a-cheese-ment! 🎬 🧀 🎉

For more information about this screening, visit the link below!
https://www.moonlighterschi.com/event-details-registration/moonlighters-4

07/30/2026

GRILLED CHEESE had a grate reception at the Big Teeth Small Shorts Film Festival at FACETS last night! Thank you to the festival organizers for a gouda job organizing and running this brie-lliant event! Stay hungry for more news as this legen-dairy festival run continues with more local screenings! (And if you're feta up with these cheesy puns, too bad, you cheddar brie-lieve they'll continue). 🎬 🧀 🎉

07/28/2026

From the set of GRILLED CHEESE! Working late, or working up a demonic appetite?
A massive thank you to My Corner Office for letting us turn their beautiful space into a dairy-fueled nightmare! Here, the crew films Colby's chaotic descent into total cheese possession. Hopefully her coworkers survive the lunch break! 🎬 🧀 🎉

FEATURED
Co-Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Actor ("Colby"): Connar Brown Sprenger
Co-Director, Producer, Editor: Tommy Martin
DP: Jack Pochop
1st AD: Jackson Learned
SFX: Alex Perez
GRIP/"Co-Worker 2": Shailey Ostlund

Photos by Connar Brown Sprenger, Tommy Martin, and Natalie Carrasquillo (Natalie Zombie)

07/23/2026

From the set of GRILLED CHEESE! To create the muenster-ous menace, special effects wizard Alex hid tubes inside a hellish mix of vegetable oil, activated charcoal, and tapioca maltodextrin. This created the visceral, boiling close-up of our dairy demon. Talk about a gouda way to die! 🎬 🧀 🎉

FEATURED
SFX: Alex Perez

Photos by Connar Brown Sprenger and Natalie Carrasquillo (Natalie Zombie) and

07/21/2026

GRILLED CHEESE received this exciting writeup in SCREEN Magazine! Check out the full article in the link below! 🎬 🧀 🎉
https://screenmag.com/grilled-cheese-wins-best-comedy-horror-short-at-marina-del-rey-film-festival-and-sets-chicago-premiere

Tickets are still available for the July 29 Big Teeth Small Shorts screening at the link below!
https://www.bigteethsmallshorts.com/screenings

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