If you’ve ever bought a ticket to a fundraising gala, it’s more than just cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. For the savvy film director/producer, it’s money well-spent on networking with industry professionals. You may have gone to IFP’s Independent Film Galas or the many Midwest Independent Film Festival after-parties, but Kartemquin offers something a little different Read more…
Following up our behind the scenes interview at the premiere of Steve James‘ The Interrupters (2011), this month, Chicagoans would find it hard not notice in the news the increasing number of youth-related violence incidents, youth homelessness, and youth job readiness. Even as the last of Chicago’s housing projects have fallen, a record number of Read more…
Tickets for the June 25th Dinner Party, click here. Steve James is the award-winning director, producer, and co-editor of Kartemquin’s Hoop Dreams, which won every major critics award as well as a Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1995. The film earned James the Directors Guild of America Award and the MTV Movie Read more…
Named Chicago’s Best Reporter and a member of the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, Rick Kogan is a senior writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday section and creator and host of “The Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan” on WGN-AM. Kogan began his career at 16, working for the Chicago Sun-Times during the tumultuous Read more…
At 7PM on Thursday, August 27th, I Paint My Mind, a progressive Chicago-based web magazine for the arts will be holding its first film screening at Center Portion, featuring Oscar-nominated Wasteland (2010) by Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, and João Jardim. Brian Flannery, Executive Board Member of the Chicago non-profit shared his excitement about the documentary, Read more…
Founding Board Member, Mireya Trejo summarized for Fear No Art Chicago how her organization, One Heart One Soul, is getting the word out about youth homelessness through gallery art and spoken word: With Chicago summers being the most unsafe and homeless youth having minimal options to positively involve themselves, came the birth of “Unspoken Words, Read more…
Chicago Filmmakers and Reeling: the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival offer a rare screening of early queer shorts from 1965-1975 this Friday, August 5 at 8PM – all except two are shown on 16mm. These erotic, playful, and experimental images will make you question just what makes these films queer, besides the sex Read more…
