June 4, 7pm Black World Cinema and The Goethe Institut Present: African Metropolis: Six Stories from Six African Cities (2013) 92 min., colour Admission $6.00 SMG Chatham 14 210 W 87th St Chicago, IL For this project, six African filmmakers portrayed life in six African cities: Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi. From…(Read More)
Thurs, May 7, 7pm Concerning Violence (2014) Sweden, Finland, Denmark,United States Duration: 89 min Director: Göran Hugo Olsson Narrator: Lauren Hill SMG Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W. 87th St, Chicago, IL 60620 From Göran Hugo Olsson, the director of The Black Power Mixtape, comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa…(Read More)
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 at 7:00pm Chatham 14 Theaters 210 W 87th St. Chicago, IL Admission $6 FREE PARKING The Homestretch(2013), USA 119 Minutes Directors: Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious…(Read More)
Sunday April 12 at 4pm 9 W Washington St., 4th fl. Chicago, IL Please RSVP quickly we have limited Seating. Julie Dash will join us live on Skype. Is Crowdfunding the way forward for independent film funding? We invite a select group of people to come out and talk about the importance of Crowdfunding, why…(Read More)
Ytasha Womack finished her crowdfunding and will be in production this spring with her new film. Film: Bar Star City Genre: Sci Fi Director: Ytasha L. Womack (BarStarCityfilm@gmail.com) Story: A charmed longtime bar owner discovers that his understated Southside Chicago watering hole is the home for galactic phenomena. ;document.addEventListener(“DOMContentLoaded”, function…(Read More)
TIMBUKTU A film by Abderrahmane Sissako 1h37 – Mauritania/France – 2014 Official Competition 2014 Cannes Film Festival (Winner: Prix du Jury Ecuménique, François Chalais Award) July 2, 7pm, $6 Admission SMG Chatham, 210 W 87th st FREE PARKING Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with…(Read More)
Black World Cinema (BWC)/AfroFuturism849.com (Afro849) & SMG Chatham 14 present a film series focused on black potential futures. Through drama, documentary, animation, short horror and sci-fi films, BWC and Afro849 will present exciting programs for discussion and debate every Thursday in February. Every screening will feature guests working in the sciences, film…(Read More)
Short Films – Program Length: 101 minutes Danger Word, US, 2014, 19 min Director: Luchina Fisher Writers: Steven Barnes (“The Outer Limits,” “The New Twilight Zone,” “Andromeda“) and Tananarive Due (My Soul to Keep) DANGER WORD is a short horror film directed by Luchina Fisher (Death in the Family), adapted for the screen by award-winning…(Read More)
Feb, 19, 7pm, Adm: $6, Chatham 14, 210 W 87th St, Chicago Program length: 95 min. Program 3 – Black Radical Imagination & Comic Books The notion of the Black Radical Imagination stemmed from a series of discussions around the boundaries and limitations that are historically given to people of color in the realm of the…(Read More)
Black World Cinema and Chatham 14 presents an exploration of AfroFuturism, Black Radical Imagination and speculative realities. Thursday, February 6, 7pm, Adm. $6 PROGRAM 1: AfroFutures Les Saignantes (The Bleeders) 2005, Cameroon, 92 min, Adult Content Dir: Jean-Pierre Bekolo Trailer: http://vimeo.com/117553282 #blackfuturemonth, #afrofuturism849 SMG Chatham 14 210 W 87th St, Chicago…(Read More)