Kris Rey is a former SIU Saluki Alumni. She works and teaches in Chicago film production at Northwestern University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Film Production from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and earned a Master’s in Education from DePaul University May 2010. She has been in twelve films and directed four films; including I Used to Go Here that was released this past summer.
She was apart of the first people in Alt News 26:8 (which is a alternative Emmy winning show on SIUC campus). She is not from Illinois because her father was in the U.S. Navy so she traveled around a lot. She went to going in Tennessee where she found here love for filmmaking and documentaries. She went to Southern because she knew some alumni that went there from her hometown. When she chose to come to SIU it was only 3-hours from her parents house. She described that when she was on the campus it looked like a college that she seen it in the movies; with the clocktower, campus lake, and other places you think a campus looks like.
Alt News started her career for the love of all things directing and impromptu filmmaking. Her work showed through her features.
I Used to Go Here is about a former student of SIUC following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate is invited to speak at her alma matter by her former professor. After accepting the invitation, Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students. Kate Conklin’s engagement collapses at the same time as the tour for her debut novel is cancelled due to poor sales. Shortly after Kate receives an offer to speak at her alma mater, Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, by her former professor David Kirkpatrick. Returning to Carbondale, Kate is surprised to be situated at a bed and breakfast across from the former house she lived in while at university. She meets the current occupants, three boys named Hugo, Tall Brandon and Animal who allow her to visit her former room. After a successful reading of her novel Kate is offered a teaching position by Kirkpatrick and decides to mull the decision over during the rest of her time in Carbondale.
Break The Comfort Box! 