Better Boys Foundation & Facets Multi-Media Announce Film Festival
Better Boys Foundation (BBF) and Facets Multi-Media announce a film festival comprised of a series of social documentaries screened outside in the inner courtyard of the BBF Center at 1512 S. Pulaski Road. These groundbreaking documentaries such as The Murder of Fred Hampton, And This is Free, American Revolution 2, and others exemplify the role of independent, particularly documentary, filmmaking in reporting about and shaping Chicago. Discussion panels of film professionals, journalists and individuals relevant to the films will follow the screenings. Two of the films will be accompanied by shorts produced in house at BBF by FilmLAB@1512, BBF’s youth filmmaking apprenticeship. A local production company, Kartemquin Films, has generously donated two of the screenings.
“As an event, Sundown in K-Town multitasks,” said Mary Visconti, Chief Executive Officer of BBF. “It deepens an already strong partnership with Facets; it offers a venue for work that is amazingly important and yet rarely screened; it brings culturally rich programming to a part of the city that has an incredibly rich cultural history, but that is incredibly neglected in terms of access to cultural arts programming; it allows BBF to highlight the work of FilmLAB@1512, one of its most robust youth apprenticeship programs; and it ends with a documentary about BBF. It’s awesome.”
The programs are free of charge as this event is made possible through support from the Chicago Community Trust. Screenings take place on Tuesday and Thursday nights July 10 – 24, 2012, at BBF starting at sundown (about 8:15 pm). Doors open at 7:45 pm. Parking is available in BBF’s two parking lots, one directly south of the building and one across the street. A special screening on Friday, July 27th at 7:00pm takes place at the ICE Theaters located at 3330 West Roosevelt Road.
Sundown in K-Town Schedule:
Tuesday, July 10th
8:15pm at the BBF Center, 1512 S. Pulaski Road
Films
The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) Mike Gray and Howard Alk
Cicero March (1966) The Film Group
Proletariat (2010) Kia Clair
Panelists
Billy Che Brooks, Former Deputy Minister of Education, Illinois Chapter, Black Panther Party
Mike Gray, Journalist, Novelist and Screenwriter
Flint Taylor, Founding Partner, People’s Law Office
Kia Clair, FilmLAB@1512 Filmmaker
Thursday, July 12th
8:15pm at Better Boys Foundation, 1512 S. Pulaski Road
Films
And This Is Free (1965) Mike Shea
Film Screening donated by Kartemquin Films
Jerry’s Deli (1976) Tom Palazzolo
Moons (2010) Angelo Williams
Panelists
Gordon Quinn, Artistic Director, Kartemquin Films
Tom Palazzolo, Filmmaker
Angelo Williams, FilmLAB@1512 Filmmaker
Tuesday, July 17th
8:15 pm at Better Boys Foundation, 1512 S. Pulaski Road
Films
American Revolution 2 (1969) Mike Gray and Howard Alk
Panelists
Mike James, Founder of “Rising Up Angry,” Filmmaker and Heartland Journal publisher
Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, Founder of the Young Lords
Stephenie Gipson, FilmLAB@1512 Filmmaker
Thursday, July 19th
8:15 pm at Better Boys Foundation, 1512 S. Pulaski Road
Films
Chicago Maternity Center Story (1976) Jerry Blumenthal, Suzanne Davenport, Sharon Karp, Gordon Quinn and Jennifer Rohrer
Film Screening donated by Kartemquin Films
Panelists
Sharene Miller, Subject of Chicago Maternity Center Story
Suzanne Davenport, Filmmaker
Gabrielle Ivy, FilmLAB@1512 Filmmaker
Tuesday, July 24th
8:15 pm at Better Boys Foundation, 1512 S. Pulaski Road
Been Rich All My Life (1996) Heather Lyn MacDonald
Panelists
Starinah Dixon, Company Member, M.A.D.D. Rhythms
Bril Barrett, Founder and Company Member, M.A.D.D. Rhythms
Dejunique Hearn, Company Member, TapLAB2@1512
Friday, July 27th
7:00 pm at ICE Theatres, 3330 W. Roosevelt Road
Films
50 Years@1512: A History of the Better Boys Foundation (BBF) (2012) FilmLAB@1512
Panelists
Mary Visconti, Chief Executive Officer, BBF
Jack Kellman, BBF Board President, President of Kellman Family Foundation
Warren Cockerham, Filmmaker
FilmLAB Filmmakers