Finding Your Laughter - the film

08/04/2025

Did you hear we WON Black Public Media's PitchBLACK? Thanks for this great article, NJ Urban News

Black Public Media awarded $225K at PitchBLACK 2025 to artists creating documentaries, immersive media, and sci-fi storytelling.

06/13/2024

Chicago caregivers, please come out on June 25th to learn directly from Arlieta’s wisdom and humor! https://givebutter.com/improvworkshop

Workshop🔊

Join us for a FREE improv workshop with actress and director Arlieta Hall!

A Certified Dementia Communication Specialist, she will reveal how to use humor as a tool in caregiving and dementia care. Hall introduces the fundamentals of improvisational comedy as a way to communicate with patients.

For more information on this dynamic class, visit: https://givebutter.com/ImprovWorkshop

05/25/2023

🎉 Happy birthday to the best Consulting Producer! Thank you Yvonne Welbon for always helping us keep things in perspective and moving forward.

Happiest of birthdays to our CEO and founder Yvonne Welbon! Our favorite gemini! May this year be your best year yet!! ❤️

03/03/2023

The Latest from Finding Your Laughter -

A couple years ago, it seemed like everyone was asking us, "Have you talked to Yvonne?" That's because she is THE person to know in Chicago film and we're so lucky that she is now our Consulting Producer. We have so much to learn from her calm and kind demeanor, her wealth of filmmaking knowledge, a...

11/03/2022

November is National Caregiver Month - Updates from FYL -

A film market is like a big speed dating event where industry professionals from distribution companies, film festivals, financiers, and sales agents meet with filmmakers for thirty minutes at at a time (you can see the big meeting space behind us in the photo above). We took 24 meetings in four day...

11/01/2022

Thank you Sisters in Cinema and IDA for this opportunity! We're so grateful to everyone who came out to support us and give us feedback.

10/20/2022

We’ve got a special treat for you all! We hope you’ll join us, along with , at a work-in-progress screening for our film “Finding Your Laughter” on Sunday, October 23rd at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts!

“Finding Your Laughter” is the story of Arlieta Hall, a stand up comedian, who must learn how to laugh in the midst of balancing life as an artist while dealing with the heartbreak of her father's Alzheimer’s. After the screening filmmakers, and , will be joining us to hear your feedback , with moderator . We're looking forward to hearing from you! Link in our bio to rsvp!

08/18/2022

We love to see good news from dementia-prevention research!

TL;DR: These large studies have confirmed that staying active, including with housework, protects brain health even for those with a family history of dementia.

Several large studies have confirmed that vigorous exercise, walking and even doing household chores can greatly benefit the brain.

06/24/2022

FINDING YOUR LAUGHTER was one of ten documentaries selected to participate in The Gotham Documentary Feature Lab, which is one of the US film industry’s most prestigious labs and offers more than 6 months of mentorship. Next up, we’re heading to New York City in September for the Gotham Week Market where we’ll take a lot of meetings with key industry members, including sales agents, distributors, festival programmers, and more. READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE LINK IN BIO

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Film & Media Institute has announced the 10 projects selected for its prestigious Documentary Feature Lab, an intensive program for first-time filmmakers. “Capturing unive…

06/24/2022

We received another grant from the City of Chicago! This is our second year getting a Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Individual Artist Program grant to help us pay ourselves and our crew for this projects. We want to acknowledge: “This project is partially supported by an Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.”