Celluloid Now 2025 was supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a CityArts grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Celluloid Now 2025 was presented, programmed, and projected by the Chicago Film Society, with help from Hannah Yang and Kathryn Wilson.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Olivia Babler & Mickey Gral of Chicago Film Archives; Zachary Epcar of Canyon Cinema; Mike Reed, Nolan Chin, & Nicole Muto-Graves of Constellation; Patrick Friel & Michael Wawzenek of the Gene Siskel Film Center; Jangwook Lee; Douglas McLaren & Ben Ruder of the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago; Julia Petrocelli & Sheldon Henderson of The Film-makers’ Coop; Gabriel Wallace; Winsor Ytterock of Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre; and Chae Yu.
Particular thanks to the lab technicians, projectionists, filmmakers, cinema engineers, collectors, and celluloid diehards who have brought analog film into the 21st century for another hundred years, and to the millions of audience members whose lives will be changed because of it.
