{"id":390339,"date":"2025-11-19T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390339\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:05:16","slug":"chicago-students-spotlight-creativity-in-short-film-the-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/390339\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago students spotlight creativity in short film &#8216;The Method&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByTony Smith  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:31PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"&#10;Chicago students spotlight creativity in short film 'The Method'&#10;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Students at Columbia College Chicago are making waves with their short film &#8216;The Method&#8217;, part of the school&#8217;s Fictional Cinema Production course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Students at Columbia College Chicago are making waves with their short film &#8216;The Method&#8217;, part of the school&#8217;s Fictional Cinema Production course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The team is raising funds to finish the project and cover film festival submission fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Actor Andreas Bautista, who stars in the film, told ABC7 Eyewitness News the project has been both challenging and rewarding. &#8220;Seeing what the student filmmakers are capable of has been amazing. Their creativity and dedication is inspiring,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Donations will help finalize production and submit the film to festivals. Supporters can contribute online by clicking <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-methods-film-festival-journey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> or QR code.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTony Smith Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:31PM Students at Columbia College Chicago are making waves with their short&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":390340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[185853,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-390339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-185853","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115577456715980647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}