Inside Full Spectrum Features’ Producers Lab
by Laura Day
This year Full Spectrum Features launched its Independent Producers Lab in partnership with the Illinois film office, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Arts. Participants in the lab could not stop singing its praises, and the community leaders behind its inception remain committed to expanding the opportunities for Chicago’s independent filmmakers.
“Generally it’s a big move to strengthen the creative core of Chicago, that has so much going for it but doesn’t always seem to get the most resources” said Grace Hahn, one of the producers in the lab whose producing credits include Stephen Cone’s Princess Cyd. For the lab, Grace will be producing Heart of the Trepid, a feature length dramedy by Sadie Rogers that follows a group of friends in their 40s called to take up a 17 year old dungeons and dragons campaign they had never finished.
