The Circuit

• Gen Art has brought its film/party/film/party/film/party recipe to Chicago, closing it out this week.  Tonight is "The Living Wake," and a party.  Thursday night will see Rachel Samuels' "Dark Streets," followed by a party.  Friday gets Mark Webber's "Explicit Ills."  And then a party.  Saturday will see a run on hang-over cures.

• The Angelus Student Film Festival has picked a doc jury comprised of HBO's Sara Bernstein, "51 Berch Street" director Doug Block, Michael Kaufman from Al Roker Entertainment, editor Geof Bartz, and doc filmmaker Hilla Medalia.  Fest boasts a $10 grand prize.  Check it out here. 

• While not at all fest related, we were enthralled by an email from Chris Hepburn, thrown like a message-in-a-bottle from across the Atlantic:

"This is a dark tale of Kafkaesque like perversity it relates to an evil E-list actress by the name or Elizabeth Gracen, who's claim to fame is she screwed Bill Clinton to obtain a Miss Arkansas crown." 

His website goes on to say that he's begging on the streets of France, that he hates French people, and "The Amazing Race" was his idea until "Mr. Celluloid Vomit Jerry Bruckheimer" stole it.