We are an independent production company based in Chicago. Our approach to producing includes:
- Featuring Chicago talent.
- Offering SAG-AFTRA contracts to union actors.
- Giving our crew the resources and support they need to succeed.
- Prioritizing Chicago partnerships and sponsors.
Meet Hallie & Rocco
We are a husband and wife team embarking on our first creative co-venture at filmmakers.
Hallie Palladino is a playwright, screenwriter, and producer based in Chicago. She was an Associate Producer on REGRET LIKE THAT (2025). Screenplays include BLOCK PARTY (Hiffclanger’s Inaugural Project) and SAVING TREVOR with Mike Jann & Michele Jordan (Final Break Quarter Finalist). Plays include: A FATAL PLACE (developed at A Red Orchid’s Studio), THE CLEANUP (premiered at Prop Thtr in 2022. Other recent plays include THE PERSUADABLES (Centenary Stage Women’s Playwrights Festival 2021), DERAILED (2018 O’Neil semi-finalist), and INFATUATION (Ojai Playwrights Conference 2017). Her short, ATTACHMENT DISORDER is published in the Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 (Applause Acting Series). Her writings on theater have appeared in American Theatre Magazine, HowlRound, and Rescripted. She has a master’s in Humanities from the University of Chicago and a certificate in Television Writing from the UCLAx Writer’s Program. Her plays are available on the New Play Exchange. Hallie is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her website is halliepalladino.com.
Rocco Palladino is a Chicago-based producer collaborating on his first feature. With a background in technology leadership and a longstanding appreciation for independent film, he combines a systems-oriented approach to production along with a passion for stories that explore moral complexity and human connection. He oversees business operations while contributing to the film’s creative development. Block Party marks his first producing collaboration with his wife and a return to a long-held passion for filmmaking.
About Our Name
When our daughter was little and we’d read her bedtime stories she would often declare that a chapter, “Ended on a hiffclanger!” We embraced this evocative malaprop and Hiffclanger Productions was born. We are a family run production company passing on our love of writing, producing, and art making to our kids (now in their teens).