T. Cisco III loves Kubrick, Romero, and Rodriguez. With "A Clockwork Orange", "Lolita", and "Night of the Living Dead" being his top three films of all time, you know he's not the most normal guy in the world. But who really wants to be "normal"? 

   T. Cisco III  made a documentary for the Proviso-Leyden Council for Community action in 1999 which led to work shooting local chicago bands (including his own), which led to work as a PA(production assistant) and an AD(assistant director) for Afternight Studios, a local music venue/soundstage from 2000 to 2002.

It was late in 2002, that T. Cisco III began writing original screenplays, and in early 2004 he created Polka Dot Films because after a few harsh encounters, he realized that the only way to get his films made the way he wanted them made was to make them himself.

In the summer of that same year shooting began on Romantic, the first feature. It wrapped the same year, and marked the beginning of the madness that is Polka Dot Films.

 

 

 

 

 

Rachel has been into fashion since birth. Her command of colors is uncanny, and she has been making custom wear for herself, friends, and family for the past few years. One look at her left hand ring finger may tell you how close she is to T. but her work speaks for itself. She's no slouch in front of the camera either, having spent the majority of the eighties and nineties involved in dramatic productions by the Chicago Park Districts and assorted local theatre groups. 

 

Tony is a camera. He is a bridge between actor and Director. He has this knack for being able to talk to anyone about anything and make it completely understandable. When T. gets into one of his creative rants, Tony is the one who deciphers it and breaks it down into plain english for the rest of the world to understand. When it comes to shooting on location, communication is priceless and Tony is an effortless translator. 

 

    Cyndi can be seen at screen tests, rehearsals, preproduction, postproduction, onset, and off camera barefoot and smiling. Nicknamed, "the hippie PA" she is an Oak Park native and huge movie buff.  Without Cyndi, Polka Dot movies could still get made, but they wouldn't be as fun to make.

 

 

 

Catherine is the excutive director of Cisco & Cisco Productions, a primary resource of PolkaDot Films. She also happens to be related to T. (as if the identical last names didn't give it away). Cisco & Cisco holds and/or sponsors numerous events throughout the midwest including the Magnificent Showcase, which donates a large portion of it's proceeds to the Y-Me Breast Cancer Foundation and the American Cancer Society. PolkaDot and Cisco & Cisco's relationship is kind of like that fish that clings to sharks, though neither organization knows which is the shark.