Thursday August 1, 2013, 7pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W 87th St Welcome to Pine Hill, 2012, 87 minutes Director: Keith Miller Starring: Shannon Harper TimeOutNY “..moody and mesmerizing… deeply human…” The Hollywood Reporter “..uniquely intimate… a breath of fresh air…” Badass Digest “Atmospheric and Enlightening” Shannon Harper is a Midtown claims…(Read More)
Thursday June 6, 2013, 7pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W 87th St Mali, 1987, 105 minutes Bambara w/ English subtitles Director:Souleymane Cissé Starring: Balla Moussa Keita, Issiaka Kane, Soumba Traoure “Ravishingly beautiful…One of the great experiences of world cinema” — Shelia Benson, The Los Angeles Times “Conceivably the greatest African film…(Read More)
Thurs. May 2, 7pm, $6 admission Chatham 14, 210 W 87th Street, Chicago Coming Back for More: Sly Stone, Dance to the Music 2008, 92min, Director: Willem Alkema from the oju image collective One of the great musical innovators of the last fifty years, Sly (of the Family Stone, naturally) survived his drug addiction but…(Read More)
Hot New works Coming to Chicago Thursday June 6, 2013, 7pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W 87th St ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP 2012, USA, 88 minutes directr; Jorge Hinojosa from the oju image collective Author of the 1969 pulp best seller Pimp: The Story Of My Life, Slim defined the…(Read More)
Chatham 14 Theaters •210 S 87th Street • Chicago, IL • April 4, 7pm FREE ADMISSION RSVP to EVENTBRITE with form below. from the oju image collective Courtesy of Lionsgate FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERSmight seem like a cumbersome title but it rings with truth and historical significance to all those who continue to be…(Read More)
Thurs., Feb 28, 7pm The Manuscripts of Timbuktu, 52 minutes, 2009, South Africa, Mali, Morocco Director: Zola Maseko Chatham Theaters 14 210 W 87th Street Admission: $6 One of the definitions for Timbuktu in the Oxford Dictionary is “any distant or remote place”. Featuring the knowledgeable commentary by African scholars, rich reenactments, and an original…(Read More)
Every Thursday in February, 7pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W. 87th Street, Chicago, IL 60620 Thurs., Feb 7, 7pm Middle of Nowhere, US, 2012, 1 hr. 39 min. Director: Ava DuVernay Winner of Sundance Film Festival Directing Award: Dramatic Competition 2012 Middle of Nowhere follows Ruby, a bright medical student who sets…(Read More)
Every Wednesday in February at 7pm, Admission: $6.00 ICE Lawndale 10 Theaters, 3330 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60624 February 6 PHUNNY BUSINESS: A BLACK COMEDY Phunny Business: A Black Comedy is a bittersweet valentine to All Jokes Aside, a little known, but extremely influential, black-owned Comedy Club. Comedy, race and Chicago politics…(Read More)
March 7, 2013, 7pm Admission: $6.00 210 W 87th Street, Chicago, IL THE UNITED STATES OF HOODOO A road trip to the black roots of American culture Germany 2012, 100 minutes The United States of Hoodoo is a film about how African based spirituality has influenced America´s popular culture. The old African gods…(Read More)
Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 7 pm Admission: $6.00 ICE Lawndale 10 Theaters 3330 W. Roosevelt Road Chicago, IL 60624 Thursday, January 3, 2013, 7 pm Admission: $6.00 Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W. 87th Street Chicago, IL 60620 WHEN AFRICA MET CHINA 2010, France/UK A historic gathering of over 50 African heads…(Read More)