RECENT AWARDS/FESTIVALS
2025 Mister Abbott | Documentary | Writer, Director, Producer
Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards Nominee
Silver Telly AwardWinner Documentary
2025 American Schemers | Feature Film | Producer
43rd Reeling Film Festival
Cinequest / Cinejoy Film Festival
Cedar River Film Festival
2024 Mister Abbott | Documentary | Writer, Director, Producer
XL Film Festival
2024 American Schemers | Feature Film | Producer
aGLIFF Film Festival
Closing Night Showcase Film
Heartland Film Festival
Official Selection
Patrons | Digital Short Series | Director, Producer
Seriesfest Season 10
Official Selection
2023 Mr. Abbott | Documentary | Writer, Director, Producer
Black Arts & Culture Alliance Chicago
Outstanding Film Direction (Nominee)
Injustice for All Film Festival
Director’s Choice Award
2019 Brothers from the Suburbs | Digital Short Series | Writer, Director, Producer
Black Arts & Culture Alliance Chicago
Outstanding Film Direction
Austin Film Festival
Jury Award – Best Digital Series
Audience Award – Best Digital Series
Urbanworld Film Festival
Best Web Original
SeriesFest Season 5
Best Direction (Digital Short Series)
2018 Bernadette | Feature Film | Writer, Producer, Cinematographer
Austin Revolution Film Festival
Best Feature Comedy| Best Producer | Best Cinematography
Chicago Comedy Film Festival
Audience Choice – Best Feature | Chicago Film Award
Lone Star Film Festival
Best Feature Film
Gig Harbor Film Festival
Director’s Choice – Best Feature Film
Macon Film Festival
Audience Choice – Best Narrative Feature
Twister Alley Film Festival
Best of Fest – Crystal Twister
Best Feature + Best Comedy Feature
Sydney Indie Film Festival
Best Comedy Feature Film
2017 Public Housing Unit | Dramatic Pilot (60 min) | Writer, Creator, Producer
International Television Festival (ITVF)
Best of Fest
SeriesFest Season 3
Best Writer (Drama)
LINKS TO PRESS:
University of Iowa Directing Course Article
AFF Screenwriter’s to Watch 2020
Austin Film Festival Announces Jury and Audience Award Winners
DEADLINE - SeriesFest Season 5
BLACKFILM - Winners of the 23rd Annual Urbanworld Film Festival
THE REEL CHICAGO BLACKLIST - February 28, 2018
REEL CHICAGO - October 26, 2017
PASTE MAGAZINE - July 6, 2017
Another entry in the “ready for prime time” category is Patrick Wimp, Angie Gaffney and Ted Reilly’s Public Housing Unit, a 1980’s set drama about a trio of Chicago cops tasked with policing the Windy City’s infamous public housing projects. Based on the true stories of real life Chicago officers Eric Davis, Jimmy Martin and Charlie Toussas, Public Housing Unit is a gritty and occasionally humorous police drama more in the vein of Hill St. Blues than Law & Order. Well acted by Chris Boykin, Kamal Angelo Bolden and Ira Amyx as Davis, Martin and Toussas, the pilot packs a lot into 48 minutes, setting the scene and giving us back stories on all three leads with impeccable pacing and dialog. It’s no surprise that it nabbed the jury award for best writer in a drama for co-creator Wimp. It also nabbed the Best Actress award for Destini Huston.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE - March 16, 2017
"Public Housing Unit" (6 p.m. March 21): A lot of TV shows are filmed here, among them that Dick Wolf quartet of "Chicago Fire," Chicago Med," "Chicago P.D." and, most recently, "Chicago Justice." Not as slick, not as star-studded, this show is the equal of any of them.
Set in the 1980s, before most of Chicago's public housing fell to the wrecking balls and when such complexes represented a lawless and all-but-hopeless landscape, it focuses on three members of a Chicago Police Department team dealing with the violence, drugs and the desperation that shadows the lives those they are attempting to serve and protect. Starring Chris Boykin, Ira Amyx and Kamal Bolden as the cops, the show is unflinching. The dialogue — by screenwriter Patrick Wimp — is tough and true and the rest of the cast brings a palpable authenticity to their roles, as when one explains his life of crime by saying with pragmatic matter-of-factness, "If I don't hustle, I don't eat."