Filmmaker Julie Dash in person Introduction by Jacqueline Stewart, co-curator of L.A. Rebellion at UCLA FREE, reserve your seats at: http://ticketsweb.uchicago.edu/categories/film Tuesday, May 21| 7p.m. Logan Center Performance Hall 074 – 915 East 60th, Street Daughters of the Dust Julie Dash, 1991, 35mm, 112 min, new print! Dash’s masterful first feature film, set in [...]

  DJANGO UNCHAINED, the new movie by Quentin Tarantino is playing to mixed reviews. Whites will view and review this movie one-way and Blacks will view it another way.  It is not a traditional film and it confronts Black images and stereotypes head on. It forces an honest discussion on America’s race relations. Jamie Foxx is distinguishing himself as [...]

    WHAT Producer/Director Joel Kapity, Producer H. Daniel Wilson, Producer Marvin Winans, Jr., of the world-­renowned Winans Gospel family, introduce “Dreams,” at their Chicago Screening Friday, November 16th, an enthralling tale of four dreamers struggling to overcome their daunting youth tainted by childhood demons, while grinding to pursue their desires of making it big [...]

Impact creates reaction. In the arts, impact is what keeps one afloat in an industry buzzing with aspiring hearts and a revolving  door that’s out with the old and in with the new before your eye completes a single blink. It’s a serious hustle. In the wide arena of entertainment, movements of impact can be [...]