SAVOY RECREATION CENTER
402 GRAHAM DR.
SAVOY, IL 61938

Our film festival is open for submissions on FilmFreeway.com.  We will be announcing film selections here when available.  Check back soon!

Recently widowed Aaren (Clarisse Behr) is a young woman living alone on her farm in the mountains. As she struggles to create stability in her daily routine, Aaren wrestles with tasks for which she once relied on her husband. To aid with repairs around the farm, she enlists the help of Jack (Willy Adkins), an unassuming neighbor who has had to cope with the loss of his own wife.

Over the course of Jack’s frequent visits, his and Aaren’s feelings for each other grow, but Aaren is tentative about moving on. Spurred by words of fatherly wisdom from her cheeky neighbor, Paul (Chuck Winstead-Brown), Aaren is faced with a decisive question: should she try to pick up the pieces of her old life, or can she find the courage to build a new one?

A florist suffers from a stroke that attacks the language area of the brain causing something called aphasia. Unable to form sentences she struggles to hold her business together, and while a romance with her photographer friend begins to bloom- she is afraid of being unable to communicate.

After a traumatic event, two old friends return to a childhood park in search of something that recalls memories and turmoil long since past.

Comic Book Kingdom is a documentary examining the joys and hardships of creating comic books by some the most talented Comic book creators working across the UK today. Featuring Laurence Campbell - Artist of Wolverine, Punisher and B.P.R.D, Kev Hopgood - Co-creator of Marvel's War Machine, Ian Sharman - Editor in Chief of Markosia Enterprises, Nigel Twumasi, Myfanwy Tristram, Zara Slattery, Inko, Chie Kutsuwada, Matt Hardy and Edward Bentley. 

A light bar is floating in space. Were the recorded images and fragments of life playing inside sent from Earth or are they just the product of the energy particles all around? Is this Earth’s memory card?

During this fracas memorialized on film, anti-execution demonstrators worked to shut down a live, on-air Fox News broadcast. When the news team tried to re-establish its position, the demonstrators grew louder, claiming that Fox was interfering with their freedom of speech. The conflict quickly grew from a verbal shouting match to that of physical shoving and hitting.

“The Killer's Requiem”, is an End of Days Rock Fable about the fate of humanity, which precariously rests on the fragile faith of an imperfect man, with a chip on his shoulder and a demon in his heart.

A unique and curious little being has some interesting encounters as she embarks on a quest to find answers to the BIG questions in this humorous animated mixed-media short adventure from the one-person Seat of the Pants Film Lab, aka Deb Ethier.

Playtime turns into uncontrolled shenanigans when a child discovers rag dolls in an antique chest. Her imagination runs wild, but for the dolls' real-life doppelgängers, self-control is out of their hands.

When Valentin meets Ludivine, he is convinced she's the girl he has been dreaming of for the past weeks... Litteraly, the girl of his dreams! Only, Ludivine has a feeling this boy meet girl scenario will take a nightmarish turn...

The Boo is a Southern-gothic thriller about a bereaved small town sheriff and his recently widowed, estranged, sister-in-law who must acknowledge the external forces they must extinguish to overcome the internal loss of their spouses.

The planet Echo has been left in ruins. Only one survivor remains an alien woman called LYTE. One day she finds she is not alone, and her life is forever changed. The Saga Continues 

Western Jubilee is a documentary film about a private music venue and recording studio in Colorado Springs, CO devoted to traditional cowboy music. The film features avid collector Scott O'Malley, the owner of Western Jubilee, and Grammy-nominated cowboy singer Don Edwards. These two men share a friendship, an obsession, and a true love for all things cowboy.

During the WWII North African campaign, a German sniper of the AfrikaKorps and a U.S. Combat engineer find themselves the sole survivors of a battle. They must reluctantly join forces to escape a marauding band of desert nomads and the unforgiving desolation of the Sahara desert. During their odyssey, the German relates the destruction of his country due to following their corrupt politicians. He regrets not stopping them before it was too late. It's a specter from the past that sadly parallels many aspects of our society today. The German soon realizes his own government is the real enemy of his people and struggles to find the courage (Tapferkeit) to stop them. 

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