Wednesday, August 1, 7 pm
ICE Lawndale 10 Theaters
3330 W Roosevelt Road
Admission: $5.00

Thursday, Aug 2, 7pm
ICE Theaters Chatham
210 W 87th St
Admission: $5.00

On Thursday August 2nd Only
Film Screening & Community Forum
on Gun Possession, Stand Your Ground
& Myths About Concealed Carry
Moderated by WVON’s CLIFF KELLY

NEGROES WITH GUNS: Rob Williams and Black Power
USA, 53 minutes, 2005,
Writer/Co-Director: Sandra Dickson;
Co-Director: Churchill Roberts

NEGROES WITH GUNS tells the dramatic story of the often-forgotten civil rights leader who urged African Americans to arm themselves against violent racists. In doing so, Williams not only challenged the Klan-dominated establishment of his hometown of Monroe, North Carolina, he alienated the mainstream Civil Rights Movement, which advocated peaceful resistance.

Robert F. Williams was the forefather of the Black Power movement and broke dramatic new ground by internationalizing the African American struggle. Negroes with Guns is not only an electrifying look at an historically erased leader, but also provides a thought-provoking examination of Black radicalism and resistance and serves as a launching pad for the study of Black liberation philosophies. Insightful interviews with historian Clayborne Carson, biographer Timothy Tyson, Julian Bond, and a first person account by Mabel Williams, Robert’s wife, bring the story to life.

Shown with
NO GUNS FOR NEGROES
USA 2009, 20 min, by Aaron Zelman

The historical record provides compelling evidence that racism underlies gun control laws — and not in any subtle way. Throughout much of American history, gun control was openly stated as a method for keeping blacks and Hispanics “in their place,” and to quiet the racial fears of whites. This film provides a brief summary of this unholy alliance of gun control and racism, and to suggest that gun control laws should be regarded as “suspect ideas,” analogous to the “suspect classifications” theory of discrimination already part of the American legal system.

Presented with Chicago Firearms Safety Association

On Thursday August 2nd Only
Film Screening & Community Forum
on Gun Possession, Stand Your Ground
& Myths About Concealed Carry

Moderated by WVON’s CLIFF KELLY
Panel Discussants:
Chris Cooper, Candidate for States Attorney
David Lemieux – Retired Chicago Police Detective
Lori Meriweather – single mom and stalking victim
Gimbu Kali, Pres & Shawn Gowder, VP,
Chicago Firearms Safety Association
Radie – home invasion survivor

Organizations:
Chicago Firearms Safety Association
IllinoisCarry.com
The Illinois State Rifle Association
The Second Amendment Sisters
Effective Firearms
Personal Protection Consultants

Wednesday, April 4th at 7pm, Adm. $5
ICE Theaters Lawndale
3330 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60624

Thursday, April 5th at 7pm, Adm. $5
ICE Theaters Chatham 14
210 W. 87th Street, Chicago, IL 60620

“In their dark­est hour, they turn on the video cam­era for the last time and doc­u­ment the final moments of their jour­ney home. They soon real­ize that their dreams and promises of a new life mean noth­ing in a place called War.”

Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Ange­les, make a movie doc­u­ment­ing their last 36 hours before ship­ping off to Afghanistan. Luis wants to be a film­maker and Ronald wants to travel the world and raise a family.

With no money for film acad­emy, and grades too low to win a schol­ar­ship at a Uni­ver­sity with a film depart­ment, Luis decides to enlist in the Marine Corps.
The Recruiter promises Luis that if he enlists, the Gov­ern­ment will pay for his film school tuition when he returns home. In doing research, I actu­ally went into an Army Recruit­ment Cen­ter as if I were Luis. I told the Recruiter my story (Luis’s story), and as I was walk­ing out, pro­mo­tional mate­ri­als in hand, the Recruiter stopped me and said, “Come by any­time and make this place your home, Luis Walker I look for­ward to say­ing I recruited the next Spike Lee.”

“Draw­ing from the Dogma 95 Move­ment and the global street art move­ment, we are cre­at­ing a new film move­ment here in the United States where the lack of resources serve the story as opposed to hin­der­ing it, blur­ring the line between real­ity and fic­tion. How­ever, our inten­tion is not to trick the audi­ence into believ­ing that what they’re watch­ing is real, but rather what they’re watch­ing is true to life.”

All screenings are followed by lively discussions moderated by program director Floyd Webb or Cecilia Horde along with local scholars, screenwriters and directors.

Screenings are the first Wednesday at
ICE Theaters Lawndale
3330 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60624

Screenings are the first Thursday at
ICE Theaters Chatham 14
210 W. 87th Street, Chicago, IL 60620

Branwen Okpako’s  “The Education of Auma Obama” won the Festival Founder’s Award for the best documentary at PAFF 2012.

The Education of Auma Obama screens March 7 & 8th at ICE Theaters.
Photo by: Guenny Pires at  Txan Film

Black World Cinema, Feb 1 &2, 2012
The Place in Between (Notre étrangère)
ICE Theater Lawndale, Wed Feb 1, 7pm 2012
ICE Theater Chatham, Thur Feb 2, 7pm 2012

The Place in Between (Notre étrangere)
France/Burkina Faso, 2010, 82 min
dir: Sarah Bouyain
prod: Sophie Salbot
scr: Sarah Bouyain, Gaëlle Macé
In French and Dioula with English subtitles.

Part of the Feb. TRUTH BE TOLD Black History Month Screenings

Exploring dilemmas of culture and race, Sarah Bouyain’s debut feature tells dovetailing stories of African women living in France. Amy is a young biracial woman whose mother is from Burkina Faso. At the age of eight, she was “reclaimed” by her father and went to live with him in France. His death 20 or so years later prompts a desire to visit her birthplace and reconnect with her other parent. In a parallel story, a middle-aged white woman is learning Dioula, a West African language spoken in Burkina Faso, from a taciturn woman named Mariam. In carefully precise scenes, Bouyain explores the displacement that both Mariam and Amy face in a country that is familiar but not quite home. In Burkina Faso, Amy tries to fit in by buying a brightly patterned dress, but locals call her “white lady” and she’s unable to converse with her aunt in order to discover her mother’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, Mariam tries to accustom herself to the bustle of Paris, where traditions and personal relationships are different from what she is used to. Through these two narratives, an affecting portrait of the African diaspora emerges. Over the course of the film, these two self-possessed women may not definitively discover the place where they belong, but what they do find is a significantly stronger sense of self.

—Rod Armstrong