CIMMfest 2010 (Chicago International Movies and Music Festival 2010)

The second annual Chicago International Movies and Music Festival is returning for 2010, hitting screens and rooms all over Chicago from March 4-7.

We are proud to announce that Opening Night, Thursday, March 4th will consist of  the US premiere of the international hit film Universalove, presented by director Thomas Woschitz and Naked Lunch, with live accompaniment by the band Naked Lunch, and the Chicago premiere of William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, presented by director Yony Leyser, followed by the first Chicago live appearance of Thee Majesty, featuring Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

In addition to these special guests, this year we are glad to include director  John Edginton who will  be introducing the Chicago premiere of his film, Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains, A Concert Film.

As always, music is at the heart of CIMMfest, so we have a number of live performances to go along with the screenings. In addition to Grant Hart, Thee Majesty and Naked Lunch, CIMMfest will host a performance by Robyn Hitchcock in conjunction with the screening of his concert documentary, and by Jon Langford, who is featured in the short film,  At Last, Okemah!,  which will screen before the show.

To bring an even more international scope to the festival this year, CIMMfest has joined with the Filmer la Musique festival of Paris and is proud to host its representatives as our guests to introduce their films. This year, we also continue the tradition of presenting art as part of the festival as well. In conjunction with the a screening of Eileen Yaghoobian's Died Young Stayed Pretty, CIMMfest will host a rock art show featuring poster art curated by Steve Walters of Screwball Press.

2010‘s festival judges will be Ivan Kral, Marie Losier, Martin Atkins and Grant Hart.