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February 1,2008

Local artist's passion blossoms into city's first film festival
By Sarah Koci Staff Writer

Seventeen years ago, Naperville resident Edmond Coisson took the role that brought him to filmmaking, a career that would lead to co-founding the upcoming Naperville Independent Film Festival: a sleazy maitre d'.

In 1991, Coisson took a job with a director for a local access channel. A read-through with another cast member revealed a sub-par script, Coisson said. "The English was not quite proper, the lines were nothing worth jiving," Coisson said. <more>

 

 

February 2008

It’s Showtime!
by Kelli Anderson

Say the words “film festival” and we may soon add “Naperville” to our associative list of Sundance and Cannes. The Naperville Independent Film Festival, scheduled to debut on September 24-27, is certain to be a lot of fun (think black tie and red carpet). But for independent filmmakers, it promises to be a lot more.

Thanks to the passion and vision of its filmmaking cofounders, Gary Pradel and Edmond and Glessna Coisson, the Naperville Independent Film Festival will not only provide a cultural treat rarely experienced by most Americans, but also a particularly unique feature seldom experienced by most amateur filmmakers - constructive feedback. <more>

 

February 2008

Do you want to have a ton of fun and
meet loads of new people interested in
the art of film making?

NIFF organizers MARY JO BROWN, EDMOND COISSON,
GLESSNA COISSON and GARY PRADEL recently launched a
Web site where interested residents can find opportunities to
volunteer, sponsor, fund raise, submit films, attend the festival
and portray famous actors such as the Sinatra Rat Pack.
For more information, visit www.naperfilm.org.

 

November 23, 2007

Helping filmmakers improve their work is a main mission of Naperville’s first 2008 film festival

A group of independent filmmakers from Naperville will host the city’s first annual Independent Film Festival September of 2008—but with a big, helpful difference from other festivals.

“The main mission is to bring filmmakers from around the world together,” says festival co-founder Edmond Coisson. “The second goal is to help filmmakers improve their films.” <More >

 

By Greg Canfield | Special to the Tribune
November 23, 2007

Naperville film fest to go extra mile for entrants

Edmond Coisson promises that the first Naperville Independent Film Festival will be a competition that does not produce any losers.
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Our Path on YouTube.

You can now view clips from all our films on youtube!

 

72H

 

Our Path Motion Picture Productions recently completed its first feature film based on the original screenplay 72H by writer/director Edmond Coisson........more