In 2021, Juneteenth, the celebration of the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, was established as a federal holiday, and with new holidays to celebrate, there are new opportunities for ...
When visiting the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago two years ago, Michael Metzger, who works at the Block Museum of Art, said he saw a poster in the lobby about the Films by Women/Chicago ...
In her short film “Some Thingz Never Change: Monologues from a Stoop in Bronzeville,” artist Jazmine. set out to find a way for people to listen to others’ stories. In this case, the stories were ...
It started on a cold November afternoon in 1968. A group of young Colorado College professors sat around a table at Murphy’s Tavern. Pints on the table, professors Glenn Brooks and Don Shearn ...
Jersey City’s premier film festival returns next week with a lineup of films to be screened at two locations over a 3-day period beginning Thursday, June 20. The Golden Door Film Festival will once ...
Gavin: Hey guys! First off, tell us a bit about yourselves. Mason: My name is Mason Johnson, filmmaker and producer of The Block Film & Art Festival. Weston: I run Woodbury Productions and am a ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India has blocked the release of a film on the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, saying it glorifies her killers and could trigger violent protests, officials said ...
Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece Battleship Potemkin, four films about Palestine, and a Spanish film titled Beef.