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3rd Annual Silver Room Block Party Film Fest
“The Bigger Picture: Chicago Black Media Showcase”

12p – 10p
FULL SCHEDULE BELOW
free shows + free popcorn

A Black media boom is rippling across Chicago, with a growing number of festivals, series and programs springing up across the city, and longtime film venues expanding their platforms for new work. Cinema 53 celebrates this moment with a unique Black media showcase at the annual Silver Room Block Party – an incredible array of film and video works, plus local makers and media programmers on-site throughout the day. Featuring five distinct line-ups from Black Harvest Film Festival, Collected Voices: Chicago’s Ethnographic Film Festival, The Chicago South Side Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival’s Black Perspectives and Open TV, plus highlights from the South Side Home Movie Project. Meet the directors, producers and programmers from every program on the red carpet at the photo-ready entrance booth in front of the Harper Theater.

Presented by Cinema 53, a monthly film + conversation series at the Harper Theater, directed by Jacqueline Stewart, UChicago professor of Cinema + Media Studies.

>>12 – 2pm OTV<>2 – 4pm CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’S BLACK PERSPECTIVES <>4 – 6pm BLACK HARVEST FILM FEST<>6 – 8pm COLLECTED VOICES<>8 – 10pm CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE FILM FEST<<
Chicago South Side Film Festival provides South Side filmmakers with opportunities to screen their work, and diversifies and improves the quality of entertainment options in the area. Michelle Kennedy, CSSFF producer, presents two films followed by conversation with Chicago director Julian D. Jackson and producer/actor Terry Haynes.

Home (Julian Jackson, 31min, 2018)
In this sci-fi short, a man is interrupted by an unknown force that takes over his world, as a special agent tries to solve the puzzle.

Preview of A Time in Black December (Julian Jackson, 2019)

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