“Aaron actually submitted it for last year’s festival,” says CUFF co-founder Bryan Wendorf. “I really liked it, and he’d been aware of us for a long time.” But then Schimberg’s film got accepted into the BAMcinemaFEST in Brooklyn, right in the filmmaker’s back yard. So Wendorf told him he’d book it for the 2019 edition of CUFF if it hadn’t played Chicago in the interim. (Though it had its programming champions, the Chicago International Film Festival declined to include it on their 2018 slate.)