Estlin Feigley

Estlin Feigley has been a film director and screenwriter since 1999 when his first feature film Toll Bridge to Iowa was selected for the IFP New York Film Festival In 2002 he formed production company Fresh FilmsDreaming Tree Films which began work in Chicago directing commercial and short film productions for the Art Institute of Chicago and the City of Chicago winning awards with the Chicago International Film Festival Through the productions Fresh Films also trains future filmmakers in production To date Estlins production resume includes directing over 200 films TV episodes commercials and documentaries and he continues to engage future filmmakers via Fresh Films which moved onto the campus of Augustana College in 2016 Estlins TV and feature film directing credits include The Stream starring Rainn Wilson Mario Lopez Christopher Gorham and Kelly Rutherford The film was called A Family Friendly Stand By Me by the Washington Post and released theatrically at Regal Cinemas the film is currently on Roku Amazon Prime iTunes and continues to play internationally on Fox Family Asia and AMC EU channels in various countries Estlin also cowrote and directed Alternate Universe A Rescue Mission starring Steve Guttenberg and Harry Lennix which premiered at the White House STEM Festival and is currently playing on Paramount Redbox and other platforms Both films had over 150 youth working onset including Augustana students TV credits include an Emmynomination for childrens TV series Moochie Kalala Detectives Club which Estlin created wrote and directed Called Zany Educational Fun by the Chicago Tribune the 6episode series aired on PBS WTTW and is currently in production with additional episodes Additional TV show Dearly Departed created in 2019 is currently in series development with Imagine Entertainment Documentaries directed by Estlin Feigley include two seasons of the Filmmaker Lab with Reese Witherspoon that trained 41 young women in documentary filmmaking two seasons of behind the lens at Tribeca Film Festival TV documentary Believe Chicago featuring nine difference makers and airing on the Audience Network and I AM not disABLEd a feature length documentary following the journey of youth with disabilities this documentary will premiere November 2022 in the Quad Cities and had 14 Augustana students work on the project On the music side Estlin directed and produced two music videos for Grammywinning artist Usher as part of his Got Noise project He also directed two music documentaries one featuring RB superstar Monica and the other All Access featuring Weezer Blink182 Franz Ferdinand and Public Enemy that ran on IFC network In addition to film directing Estlin continues to lead training for students working directly to mentor them on all aspects of production as faculty at Augustana College where he teaches production and screenwriting shown as G Feigley on Arches and via Fresh Films which has 27 sites across the country and hundreds of Alumni in the industry including Augustana graduates and Golden Globe winner Ramy Youssef Estlin considers his most important contribution the mentorship of young filmmakers to be part of the industry