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2025

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Real-Life Spouses Kenneth Lonergan and J. Smith-Cameron Attached to Feature Version of Sundance Short Film ‘Debaters’ (Exclusive)

SHORT OF THE WEEK | Sundance Film Festival 2025: A Short-Centric Guide

CINEMA FEMME | Sundance 2025: Alex Heller on her Short Film “Debaters”

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | Short Film Program 1 Brings a Round of Applause for Death, High School Debate, and Drag

FEATURE FIRST | ‘Debaters’ Director Alex Heller And Stars Sripadh Puligilla & Bernadette Santos Schwegel Talk Courtroom Style Drama

THE PARK RECORD | Writer combines comedy and cutthroat competition in ‘Debaters’

UTAH CHRONICLE | Sundance 2025: Alex Heller’s ‘Debaters’ Champions Dialogue and Representation

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | Doris Duke Foundation and Sundance Institute Announce 2025 Building Bridges Completion Fund Recipients

DECCAN HERALD | Babil Khan and Malayalam actor Anna Ben to co-star in Indo-American film ‘Yakshi’

SOUTHSIDE WEEKLY | Ask A Punk and the Power of Community Storytelling

HARPERS BAZAAR | 50 of the Best Lesbian Films of All Time

DEADLINE | ‘Blue Beetle’s Xolo Maridueña & ‘Matlock’s Leah Lewis To Topline Indie Romance ‘Dog Years’ From Filmmaker Mary Bronaugh

2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES | At Sundance, a Transcendent Road Trip and Other Reasons to Love Movies

VARIETY | The Dazey Phase Scoops Sundance Winning Trans Doc ‘Desire Lines’: ‘We Have Always Been Here, and We Always Will Be’ (EXCLUSIVE)

INDIEWIRE | Sundance Film Festival Reveals 2025 Shorts Program with 57 Films from 28 Countries

ROGEREBERT.COM | Sundance 2024: Handling the Undead, Desire Lines, A Different Man

FIRST SHOWING | First Trailer for Trans Doc 'Desire Lines' - A Journey of Self-Discovery

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Unveils Short Film Program Presented by Vimeo

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | “Desire Lines” Explores an Erotic Archive of Transmasculine Sexuality

NEWCITY FILM | Film 50 2024: Advocates, Production and Support Services

REEL CHICAGO | Full Spectrum Features announces 2024 Community Storytellers

GEEK VIBES NATION | ‘Signature Move’ Blu-Ray Review – A Charming Queer Romance

2023

THE NEW YORK TIMES | 'The Year Between' Review: An Easygoing Breakdown

VARIETY | ‘The Year Between’ Review: Alex Heller Dedicates a Gap Year to Bipolar Disorder in Well-Balanced Indie

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | Gravitas Ventures Takes North American Rights to ‘The Year Between’

AUTOSTRADDLE | Gay for Play: The Best Queer Sports Movies of All Time

DEADLINE | Carrie Coon Boards Postpartum Comedy ‘Another Happy Day’; Natasha Leggero Among New Additions To Action Comedy ‘The Unexpecteds’ – Film Briefs

2022

DEADLINE | Lauren Lapkus To Exec Produce & Star In Postpartum Comedy ‘Another Happy Day’

REEL CHICAGO | Full Spectrum Features and WBEZ present the Community Storytellers

MOVIES & MANIA | ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS Reviews of revolting horror

POPHORROR | Fantasia International Film Festival 2022: Interview With Alex Phillips, Director Of ‘All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms’

2021

VARIETY | Jules Rosskam Encourages Transgender Men to Be Open About Their Sexuality in ‘Desire Lines’

VARIETY | J. Smith-Cameron and Steve Buscemi Star in Alex Heller Indie Drama ‘The Year Between’

REEL CHICAGO | Chicago Independent Producers Lab selects 5 producers

FILM INQUIRY | OUR RIGHT TO GAZE: BLACK FILM IDENTITIES: Embracing the Black Gaze

SCREEN MAGAZINE | Full Spectrum Features Launches Inaugural Community Storytellers Grant

2020

REEL CHICAGO | Inside Full Spectrum Features’ Producers lab

REMEZCLA | From Coming Out Tales to Epic Romances: 10 Films To Celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day

2019

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | ‘Holy Trinity’: Film Review | Outfest 2019

INDIEWIRE | 12 New LGBTQ Films Not to Be Missed This Year

CINEMA FEMME | A religious experience with Molly Hewitt’s ‘Holy Trinity’

CHICAGO SUNTIMES | ‘Holy Trinity’: Welcome to a bizarro Chicago where the colors are bold and the humor is bawdy

WBEZ | Weekend Passport: ‘Cuban Visions’ Film Fest Brings Queer Cuban Filmmakers to Chicago

WBEZ | “Cuban Visions” Film Series Brings Cuba’s Filmmakers to Chicago

2018

CHICAGO MAGAZINE | Signature Move Is a Queer Love Affair that Crosses Cultures and Chicago Neighborhoods

NEWCITY FILM | “Welcome to the Movie Business”: Lessons Learned in the Making of Our (First) Film, “Signature Move”

2017

VICE | Filmmaking as Social Justice: How ‘Signature Move’ Breaks Queer Stereotypes

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | ‘Signature Move’: Film Review | SXSW 2017

ROGEREBERT.COM | Made-in-Chicago Movie “Signature Move” Premieres in Windy City September 29th

SCREEN DAILY | Signature Move': SXSW Review

CHICAGO SUNTIMES | Close attention to Chicago indie love story ‘Signature Move’ pays off

CHICAGO TRIBUNE | ‘Signature Move’ review: Sexual identity vs. cultural expectations in Chicago

NEWCITY FILM | Marching Shoulder to Shoulder: A Conversation with Cinema Legend and Activist Shabana Azmi on the Eve of Her Chicago Debut in “Signature Move”

2016

CHICAGO READER | Full Spectrum Features brings diverse voices to the forefront of Chicago’s independent film scene