Thurs, Nov 6, 7pm, Adm. $6.00 Black World Cinema @ Studio Movie Grill Chatham Theater 210 W 87th Street Act of Protest (2001) Director: Dennis Leroy Kangalee http://dennisleroykangalee.wordpress.com/ Made in 2001 in NYC, As an Act of Protest has not been screened publicly in the USA since 2005 shortly, before Kangalee destroyed…(Read More)
Thursday, December 4 at 7:00pm Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W 87th St. Chicago, IL Admission $6 FREE PARKING Finding Fela (2013), UK 119 Minutes Director: Alex Gibney Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance. He created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, using that…(Read More)
July 12: Screening and Discussion at Afrofuturism849.com The Pyramid Codes The Pyramid Code is a 5 part documentary series that explores the pyramid fields and ancient temples in Egypt as well as ancient megalithic sites around the world looking for clues to matriarchal consciousness, ancient knowledge and sophisticated technology in a Golden Age. The…(Read More)
New Short Film,Thurs Nov 6, 7pm: ONLY LIGHT with As An Act of Protest ONLY LIGHT (2014) 13 min. Director: Evita Castine When a young girl is kidnapped from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sold as a sex worker to the U.S., she finds an escape from reality by watching a…(Read More)
Thurs. Sept 4th, 7pm Studio Movie Grill Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W 87th St Chicago, IL Black World Cinema and South Side Projections Present a Back to School Sing-Along Screening of “THE WIZ” as Part of Their Ongoing Showcase of Classic and Seldom Seen Movies from Around the World Black World Cinema is the…(Read More)
Coming Thursday, August 7th, 7pm Studio Movie Grill Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W 87th Admission: $6 co-sponsored by HotHouse Cristo Rey (2013) France, 96 min. Cast: Akari Endo, James Saintil, Yasser Michel Directed By: Leticia Tonos Janvier and Rudy, half-brothers from the same island but two different worlds, confront each other for the…(Read More)
Intruder in the Dust Thurs, July 3rd, 7pm, Adm: $6 Studio Movie Grill Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W 87th St https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVOAKPavYWU Come to my 2nd Annual Birthday Party Film, where I make a totally personal choice of a film I love or is one of my guilty pleasures. With…(Read More)
Thursday, June 5, 7pm Black World Cinema Studio Movie Grill Chatham 210 W 87th Street Admission: $6.00 Honoring Sam Greenlee and Ivan Dixon Sam Greenlee: The Struggle and Solutions for an Essential Political Cinema featuring a screening of the classic filmThe Spook Who Sat by the Door and a panel discussion on the film…(Read More)
Thursday May 1st, 7pm, Adm: $6.00 ONE MILE AWAY, UK, 2013, 89 min Director: Penny WoolcockStudio Movie Grill Chatham 210 W 87th Street The violence arising out of the infamous rivalry between Birmingham, Britain’s two most prominent gangs, the Burger Bar Boys and the Johnson Crew, whose postcodes – B21 and B6 – separate them…(Read More)
The Stuart Hall Project Thursday April 3, 7pm, $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters/ Studio Movie Grill 210 W 87th Street, Chicago The Stuart Hall Project John Akomfrah’s documentary following Jamaican-born intellectual Stuart Hall, exploring memory, identity and scholarly impulse. Highly acclaimed at last year’s Sundance and Sheffield Documentary festivals, the new film…(Read More)