You are cordially invited to the Chicago Film Archives’ annual benefit at The Carlyle Ballroom on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.
Please join Chicago legends Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune and documentary filmmaker Tom Palazzolo for an evening of cinema, conversation, cocktails, and cuisine that will support the preservation and exhibition of our city’s history and culture on film.
“There is not, and has never been, a filmmaker as sensitively attuned to the ways and wonders of Chicago as Tom Palazzolo. He’s been at it for decades and is a genius to cherish.” -Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
Where: The Carlyle Ballroom
1040 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois, 60611
When: Friday, March 22, 2019
6:00pm-9:30pm
6:00pm – 6:45pm Reception– Cocktails and raffle purchases
6:45pm – 7:30pm Buffet Dinner
7:30pm – 9:00pm Program with host Rick Kogan and filmmaker Tom Palazzolo, screening of a new film by Tom Palazzolo, raffle drawing and live auction
Tickets: $175 or $300 a couple
Dress: Business Casual
For tickets contact: 312-243-1808 or info@chicagofilmarchives.org.
This benefit will raise much needed funding to help run Chicago’s only independent regional film archive. For over fifteen years, CFA has worked to identify, collect, preserve, and exhibit Chicago’s rich history and culture on film. Today the organization houses over 150 collections and more than 27,000 films. Join us as we celebrate these unique and extraordinary moving images—films that reflect our lives in the 20th century!
This year’s live auction prize is also unique and extraordinary … it’s Tom Palazzolo!
LIVE AUCTION
FILMMAKER TOM PALAZZOLO WILL CREATE A 20-MINUTE DOCUMENTARY OR ESSAY FILM ABOUT ANY PERSONAL OR FAMILY OCCASION THE WINNER WOULD LIKE.
This film might document a family celebration, a reunion, a day-in-the-life of…, a child’s first day of school, or the opening of a start-up business. No matter what the occasion, the film will assuredly carry the distinct Palazzolo perspective on life. In addition, once completed, the lucky winner will get the opportunity to screen their newly made film at the Chicago Filmmakers’ firehouse theater.
Approximate value: Priceless (Proxy bidder can be arranged)
Please contact CFA for further parameters that will accompany the production of this film such as a limit on the number of shooting days or the geographical area where the film will be shot.
RAFFLE PRIZES ($25 per ticket)
Raffle tickets can be bought from CFA Board members or by contacting the CFA office at 312-243-1808 or info@chicagofilmarchives.org.
A SELECTION OF FINE WINE FROM THE CELLAR OF ONE OF CFA’S BOARD MEMBERS-
TWELVE BOTTLES, A “MIXED CASE”
Between 29 and 37 years old, and properly cellared since release, all twelve bottles will need to be properly decanted before serving. Each bottle would retail for between $70 and $250, if available.
– Vaillon, Chablis 1er Cru, Grand vin Blanc de Bourgogne, 1982 – 2 bottles
– Gran Reserva 904, La Rioja Alta, 1983 – 3 bottles
– Cabreo, Vino Rosso, Ruffino, “Super Tuscan,” 1990 – 2 bottles
– Le Cigare Volant, Red Wine, Bonny Doon, 1987 – 2 bottles
– Chateau Talbot, Saint Julian Grand Cru, 1987 – 3 bottles
Approximate value $1500
GIRL & THE GOAT HOP FOR FOUR
Begin your Goat Hop for four at Duck Duck Goat, where you will have a drink at the bar and sample dishes of Executive Chef Stephanie Izard. Next, hop to Girl & the Goat, where you will receive another round of drinks at the bar and sample more of Chef Izard’s dishes. End your meal at Little Goat Diner, where you will enjoy a dessert and a nightcap. Izard’s renowned restaurant Girl & the Goat opened in Summer 2010. Little Goat Diner opened across the street just a few years later, and then Duck Duck Goat around the corner on Fulton Market in 2016. Girl & the Goat was nominated best new restaurant by the James Beard Foundation in 2011 and Izard won the Beard award for Best Chef Great Lakes in 2013. She was also named one of Food & Wine Magazine’s “Best New Chefs” in 2010.
The winners of these prizes are not required to attend the Benefit. Raffle tickets can be bought from CFA Board members or at the CFA office. If you cannot be in attendance but would like to bid on the Tom Palazzolo film production at the live auction, CFA will arrange for a proxy bidder to bid on your behalf.
CFA is proud to serve signature cocktails generously provided by Heaven’s Door, an award-winning collection of handcrafted American whiskeys developed in partnership with Bob Dylan.