Sept 1, Chicago Filmmaker, 7:30 pm | Quartiers Lointains(distant quarters) Shorts films on Identity from France
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 the industry, they […]
July 28 – Chicago Filmmakers: BEYOND The Black Panther: Afrofuturism Short Films
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 whole spectrum of […]
July 8, 2018 – 3pm BWC Presents: Black Che: The Black Panther
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 […]
March 15 7:00pm bwcFilmTalk: Featured Short “SIGHT” by Jaleen Talbott with BLACK Panther
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 min), by new […]
2017 South Side Film Festival kick-off with short film, Cry of Jazz (1959)
BLACK WORLD CINEMA | SOUTH SIDE PROJECTIONS | HYDE PARK ARTCENTER Present A Pre-Festival Screening Event Introducing The 1st Annual South Side Film Festival Celebrating Films Made on the South Side & South Side Filmmakers 2:30pm, Sept 30, 2017 • Hyde Park ArtCenter 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL Cry of Jazz (1959), 34 min […]
Thursday Aug 10, 7:15 BWC FilmTALK on DETROIT with Salim Muwakkil
Studio Movie Grill Chatham 210 W 87th St | FREE PARKING Aug 10 – 7:15 pm Discussion takes place after the film at 9:45. If you haven’t seen the fim DETROIT, come join us at Black World Cinema as we view and discuss the film DETROIT by director Kathryn Bigelow. A writer in the Huffington […]
July 28-AUG 4 | I AM THE BLUES
From the juke joints to the church, up the mountain and down the bayou, I AM THE BLUES transports you to the Mississippi crossroads together with the last legends of the blues. I AM THE BLUES takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi […]
June 16-23 RAISING BERTIE
RAISING BERTIE, US, 2017, 102 min Director: Margaret Byrne An intimate, six-year portrait of three boys growing into adulthood in rural North Carolina. Raising Bertie argues that rural black lives matter by showcasing people usually invisible in the media: African-American boys grappling with the precarious school-to-work transition in an impoverished and isolated rural community. Set […]
May 26, CHASING TRANE,
May 26-June 2 Studio Movie Grill Chatham and Black World Cinema Present Chasing Trane, 2017, US, 99 min. Director:John Scheinfeld 210 W 87th St FREE PARKING CHASING TRANE is the definitive documentary film about an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world. This smart, passionate, […]
Half A Yellow Sun a film by Biyi Bandele
Half A Yellow Sun, UK/Nigeria, 2013, 111min Director: Biyi Bandele May 12-19 11:30 A, 2:10 P, 4:50 P, 7:30 P, 10:10 P Studio Movie Grill Chatham 210 W 87th St FREE PARKING During the mid-to-late sixties, twin sisters Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) return to Nigeria after their education in England, they make decisions that shock […]