Prairie Ice Productions

12/22/2025

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11/26/2025

Working on how we got here. How the middle class got so divided in convoluted in their ideology.

TED Radio Hour on NPR One | 16:13

11/03/2025

Super Early Bird deadline for CUFF33 closes this week! Click on the link below submit your film. 💌

https://filmfreeway.com/ChicagoUndergroundFilmFestival

09/02/2025

09/02/2025

CUFF32 closes with the Chicago homecoming of $POSITIONS in the debut from local filmmaker Brandon Daley.⁠
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Premiering earlier this year at SXSW, this hyper-anxious comedy-thriller follows Mike Alvarado, a blue-collar Midwesterner who thinks he’s found salvation for his struggling family in the crypto market. Instead, he plunges them, and himself, into a volatile spiral of gambling addiction, screen addiction, and emotional ruin. Think Uncut Gems by way of the Midwest, but funnier, scarier, and a hell of a lot more personal.⁠
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It’s the rare indie comedy that doesn’t hedge its bets, just hard laughs and harder truths. We can’t imagine a better way to end CUFF 2025.⁠
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$POSITIONS will play at the GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER on closing night, SUNDAY, September 21, 7:30PM. Link below for tickets!

https://cuff32.eventive.org/schedule/6892b4b396b8a653e332dc10

02/26/2025

https://youtu.be/tmamPItLdOY?si=SKuzqCVE3cXim0Lv

12/20/2024

Thanks Matthew Kaplan for your beautiful depiction of the Southeast Side of Chicago

https://www.instagram.com/mkaplanphoto?igsh=ZDBtcGVobGdnaHow

11/15/2024

11/12/2024