Elkhart, Indiana native Jessica Hardy takes comedy seriously as the founder of the long-running and increasingly successful Chicago Comedy Film Festival (CCFF) since 2010. Taking place at the New 400 Cinema in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago on November 9-11, the festival is one of the few comedy festivals in the country and will screen more than 50 short- and feature-films with Q&As with the filmmakers and talent after each showing. This competitive film festival is what Hardy hopes will be a platform for independent comedy filmmakers to launch their career and “…encourage [them] to go bigger and think bigger.”
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