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Chicago – On Tuesday, December 5th, the Midwest Independent Film Festival will award their 2017 “Best of the Midwest” honors with a ceremony at Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago at 7pm. Nominees include the feature films “Dave Made a Maze,” “Halfway,” “Signature Move,” “The Legend of Swee’ Pea” and “The View From Tall.”

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The Midwest Independent Film Festival is a year-round movie event in Chicago that takes place the first Tuesday of every month, at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema. The festival has been recognized by Chicago Magazine in their “Best of Chicago” issue, and has become one of the top places for local filmmakers, producers and actors to network in the city. The “Best of the Midwest” Awards has a number of TV & Film guests (click here) scheduled to attend.

The nominees for the 2017 “Best of the Midwest” Awards are as follows…...

One of the most controversial crowdfunding campaigns ever undertaken has taken a surprising turn. Back in 2014, the Chicago-based comedy sketch group known as Fnd Films, composed of Aaron Fronk, Vinny DeGaetano and Cooper Johnson, created an Indiegogo campaign to fund their first film. After raising over $77,000, the guys fell of the map, were nowhere to be seen and donors were left with no update on the movie’s fate. That was until two weeks ago, when they returned to their YouTube channel and posted a video apologizing that due to complications and elements beyond their control, the movie could no longer be completed.

Donors were enraged, quickly flooding social media and asking for their money back. Photos were also revealed that showed the trio vacationing in Europe and taking extravagant trips. Fox News even covered the story and interviewed Fronk, who told the outlet that they “ran out of money...

For more than two years, the guys at Fnd Films have been leading their fans to believe that they ran off with the $78 thousand they raised with an Indiegogo campaign to make a movie. The joke is over now, as the Fnd guys have just released the first trailer for their movie It's All Good; an action hiest comedy about three guys who run a fraudulent crowdfunding campaign and spend all of the money. The idea is very meta and while they definitely upset a lot of their supporters in the process, they have delivered on their promise to make their movie.

A little more than two weeks ago, after near total and complete silence for two years, the guys released an apology video to their YouTube channel, saying that the movie they promised could no longer be made. Naturally, their fans were quite upset, but it was all part of the elaborate ruse.