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Podtalk: Writer/Director Yuri Rutman on ‘Trained,’ to Premiere on Shorts TV,

Filmmaking in Chicago just got another feather in its cap, as writer/director Yuri Rutman is about to premiere his short film “Trained” on the prestigious Shorts TV channel. Shorts TV is the official distributor of the Oscar nominated shorts every year, and picked up Rutman’s film as a high-level example of this truncated cinematic art form. 



Chicago-made ‘Trained’ rolls into 33 million homes