We're partnering with the Gene Siskel Film Center to host film screenings from the Black Harvest Film Festival. The Black Harvest Film Festival is Chicago's annual showcase for films that tell stories, raise questions or touch on issues that relate to African American, black African and African diasporic experience.
These community events seek to engage the African American audiences of Chicago by offering facilitated discussions of the film with directors, writers and staff from the Siskel Film Festival. Food and refreshments will be provided. The films are family friendly.
- Call Center: The dialogue has a snappy comic edge in this Chicago-made feature that takes aim at the wacky human drama inside the fictional call center, Ora-tel. Showings:
- Blueprint for Bronzeville: This concise and illuminated documentary with Robit Bezalel (70 Acres in Chicago) as supervising producer recounts the fight to maintain affordable housing in the historic neighborhood at the time of Chicago's ill-fated bid to host the 2016 Olympics. Showings:
- Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities: Director Stanley Nelson examines the legacy of historically black colleges and universities, covering such topics as the post-Civil War "contraband schools;" the opposing educational visions of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois; the Golden Age of the 1930s-40s; the activist 1960s; and the recent challenges faced by a still-thriving institution. Showings:
- Short Films: A New Day in the Chi, Brooks People, Cut My Hair Barber, Mama, I Made It, Supermom. Showings:
