Say Amen Somebody, US 1983, Sat, Sept 21, 2019, 1:45 pm 210 W 87th St, Chicago, IL Please try to purchase tickets in advance https://www.studiomoviegrill.com/ticketing/start/say-amen-somebody/chatham/2019/09/12/01/05/pm Call me join us for a screening and lively discussion of the legacy of…(Read More)
DCP, color, 118 min. Director: Bill Duke. Production: Public Forum Productions, Ltd. Producers: Elsa Rassbach, George Manasse. Screenwriters: Leslie Lee, Elsa Rassbach, Ron Milner. Cinematographer: William Birch. Production Designer: Maher Ahmad. Editor: John N. Carter. Music: Elizabeth Swados. Cast: Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford, Moses Gunn, Clarence Felder. Rich in characters and…(Read More)
Sat, Dec 1, 7pm | Fanon: Black Skin/White Mask w/Lumumba: Death of A Prophet Chicago Filmmakers 5720 North Ridge Avenue 7:00pm -10:00pm Buy Tickets NOW! Frantz Fanon: ‘Black Skin, White Masks’, 1996, UK, 70 minutes” Director: Isaac Julien Interviews, reconstructions and archive footage tell the story of the life and work of…(Read More)
Black World Cinema Screening Saturday, Nov 23, at Connect South Shore. 6-8pm 2226 E 71st St. Dark Stars: on the Trail of the unseen, discovering the surreal, the magical and political. Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon (1984) Director: Luc De Heusch Presents the history of research on the Dogon since the…(Read More)
To Wound the Autumnal City: AFROFUTURISM Films 2 @Chicago Filmmakers Zombies, Apocalypse and Dystopias October 13, 2018, 7:30 pm Chicago Filmmakers 5720 N. Ridge Ave. (enter from Hollywood side) “It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.” ? Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren AFTERMATH…(Read More)
Grow Greater Englewood & Black World Cinema, Chicago present FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING Thursdays, Aug 16th, 20 & Sept 6 58th and Halsted, on the Englewood Trail Cinema up top, on the ENGLEWOOD TRAIL Films! Food! Fun!! Edutainment! We playin’ it like a video DJ(VJ) Black Panther Animated Series Every Week Short Films, Local Filmmakers…(Read More)
Black World Cinema and Chicago Filmmakers Presents SUDO Connexion Quartiers Lointains(distant quarters) Shorts films on Identity Chicago Filmmakers 5720 N. Ridge Ave.(enter from Hollywood side), Chicago, IL 60660 United States Buy Tickets NOW! Producing and making PanAfrican is one thing, broadcasting them is another. If the films were produced on the margins of…(Read More)
BEYOND The Black Panther: Afrofuturism Short Films Beyond the Black Panther Co-Presented by Black World Cinema and Chicago Filmmakers Afrofuturism | ?afr??fyo?oCH?riz?m | noun a movement in literature, music, art, etc., featuring futuristic or science fiction themes which incorporate elements of black history and culture: Afrofuturism has drawn adherents from across the…(Read More)
July 8, 3pm Oak Public Library 834 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301 A Free Screening of a New Documentary Film by VA FILMS BLACK CHE: The Black Panther Billy Che Brooks, a lifetime warrior in the battle for peace and prosperity for oppressed people worldwide speaks on his years as the deputy minister of…(Read More)
Join us for a Black World Cinema Family FilmTalk about Afrofuturism and the Chadwick Boseman Black Panther film. We’ve waited for the promotional dust to clear and the choosing of our 2018 Afrofuturist Film Competition choice for this year’s Women’s History Month. We present this years winning short film, SIGHT (2018, 15…(Read More)