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''Hogtown'' is an upcoming independent film by writer-director Daniel Nearing. It has been called "the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date" by The Chicago Sun-Times. Set against the backdrop of the 1919 Chicago race riots, the story revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a millionaire theater owner during a snowstorm. While ''Hogtown'' is a period piece with a large multi-racial cast, the innovative black and while film was intentionally shot with little attempt to camouflage modern-day Chicago. The film is the second of three in an unnamed trilogy. The first was ''Chicago Heights'', a free-form adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's novel ''Winesburg, Ohio'', that was named to Roger Ebert's list of the Best Art Films of 2010. The third film, ''Petit Monde'', is in development. Like ''Chicago Heights'', ''Hogtown'' experiments in blending contemporary elements with anachronisms, including a 1940s-style newsreel sequence. == Factual basis == The era in which the story is set was when the infamous Chicago Race Riots of 1919 had the city in the throes of racial tension, and includes characters based on individuals involved in that crisis, including its first victim, Eugene Williams, and the first injured policeman, Dan Callahan. Ambrose Greenaway, the theatre owner of the film, is modeled on Ambrose Small, who disappeared during a snowstorm in Toronto on December 2, 1919. The prime suspects in his disappearance are similarly modeled on real people - Theresa Greenaway on Theresa Small, and John Doughty, based on Small's accountant of the same name. Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Toronto and in Oak Park (a suburb of Chicago) in this period, is also a character, as is the American author Sherwood Anderson, who was living and working in Chicago at that time. In 1919 Chicago also faced the Black Sox Scandal, one of Major League Baseball's first, and biggest, cheating scandals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hogtown (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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