Michael Glover Smith

Hekla, a determined Chicago actress, races through auditions, breakups, and self-doubt over the course of one chaotic day, risking her heart and career to claim her voice and step fully into the artist and woman she's meant to be.

Author Barry Gifford's gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in 1950s Chicago provide the backdrop for an impressionistic documentary portrait of a vanished time and place.

Mia Sloan is a bright yet unmotivated 29-year-old waitress who suddenly finds herself in the unenviable position of having one day to raise thousands of dollars in back-due rent in order to stave off eviction. During this memorably hectic day, Mia journeys through her hometown of Tallahassee, encountering various figures from her life while attempting to earn the funds any way she can.

A freewheeling video essay about Bob Dylan's underexamined work as a filmmaker, based on the book by Michael Glover Smith

As various members of the Frank family come together for a college graduation party in Chicago, they find their bonds being tested -- and strengthened -- in surprising ways.

Three couples from Chicago vacation for a weekend at a lakeside cabin in Michigan. Over the course of three days in this comedy/drama, hidden tensions and secrets slowly come to the surface.

A short comedic feature film comprised of three vignettes corresponding to the beginning, middle and end stages of a relationship.

A woman and a man go on a blind date, both for the first time in years. Each faces the dilemma of how open and honest they should be.

A woman with agoraphobia and the Airbnb guest across the hall strike up a correspondence that becomes something more for the holidays.

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

Linnea Chiang is a mild-mannered tobacconist by day and a masked master thief by night; like some modern day Robin Hood, the black vinyl-clad "Minx" robs large corporations and gives the money away to homeless people on the streets of Chicago. Over the course of the film's dazzling plot turns, Linnea develops relationships with two very different men: Joseph Van Zwick, the ruthless CEO of the corrupt "World Energy" company, and Edgar Alvarez, an idealistic young reporter for "The Windy City Weekly," Chicago's leading alternative newspaper. In an ironic twist, Edgar is assigned to write a story on The Minx, never dreaming that Linnea, the woman he has become romantically involved with, could be her alter-ego. As both of these men, as well as Chief Inspector Chiapetti of the Chicago police, begin to close in on The Minx's true identity, Linnea is forced to make a decision about her future that will affect the lives of everyone involved . . .

Cool Apocalypse is a comedy/drama that intertwines the stories of two very different relationships, one of which is about to begin and the other of which has just ended.