Best of the Black Harvest Film Festival: Standing on Common Ground
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Free film presentation: Standing on Common Ground, a film by Evan Allen-Gessesse. An Illinois State student volunteers to spend his spring break helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in New Orleans. There, he finds compelling stories of courage, outrage, and continuing callousness that the media missed. (2006, 29 min., dvd projection)
For the past 17 years, the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has presented the Black Harvest Film Festival. It is the Midwest’s largest and longest running festival dedicated to telling stories of the black experience.
In partnership with the Chicago Public Library, the Gene Siskel Film Center has selected six films to be featured in the Best of the Black Harvest Film Festival. In addition to viewing the selected films, guests of the Best of the Black Harvest Film Festival will have an opportunity to participate in audience discussions with many of the filmmakers. Snacks will be provided and all films are family-friendly.
Guests will also have the chance to receive tickets to this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago. To learn more about Black Harvest, visit www.siskelfilmcenter.org.
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Best of the Black Harvest Film Festival: Standing on Common Ground
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Chicago, IL 60601
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