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This Week at the Black Harvest Film Festival

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This Week at the Black Harvest Film Festival

[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY   Arionne Nettles  |  PUB   Chicago Defender 

The Gene Siskel Film Center’s 22nd Annual Black Harvest Film Festival celebrates the best in contemporary independent filmmaking exploring the stories, images, heritage, and history of the black experience in the U.S. and around the world.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]

Here is a list of films playing this week:

Class Divide
Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 6 p.m., 2016, Marc Levin, USA, 74 min. – “Class Divide” shows the high price of gentrification by profiling one intersection in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

Dark Seed
Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 8:15 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 6:15 p.m., 2016, China L. Colston, USA, 89 min. with China L. Colston, David Roberts. – “Dark Seed” shows the high price of gentrification by profiling one intersection in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

How to Tell You’re a Douchebag
Friday, Aug. 26 at 6:15 p.m., 2016, Tahir Jetter, USA, 80 min. with Charles Brice, Dewanda Wise. – “How to Tell You’re a Douchebag” shows the high price of gentrification by profiling one intersection in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″][/three_fifth_last]

Gene Siskel Film Center, Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, Class Divide, How To Tell You're A Douchebag, Dark Seed, This is Not Chiraq, Sunshine Day, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Class Divide. 2016, Marc Levin, USA, 74 min.
Gene Siskel Film Center, Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, Class Divide, How To Tell You're A Douchebag, Dark Seed, This is Not Chiraq, Sunshine Day, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Dark Side. 2016, China L. Colston, USA, 89 min. with China L. Colston, David Roberts.
Gene Siskel Film Center, Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, Class Divide, How To Tell You're A Douchebag, Dark Seed, This is Not Chiraq, Sunshine Day, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
How to Tell You’re a Douchebag. 2016, Tahir Jetter, USA, 80 min. with Charles Brice, Dewanda Wise.

[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]Gene Siskel Film Center
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, US[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]The Gene Siskel Film Center, formerly The Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and commonly referred to as The Film Center or The Gene Siskel, is the cinematheque attached to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is named after popular film critic Gene Siskel.

Along with Doc Films at the University of Chicago and the Block Museum of Northwestern University, the Film Center is one of Chicago’s key revival houses, and hosts at least one major retrospective per month. Unlike Doc or Block, the Film Center also serves as a venue for first runs of foreign and independent films and is not student-run. Amongst other things, this means the Film Center maintains a year-round staff and does not cease operation when The School of the Art Institute closes for semester breaks.

The Film Center reportedly averages 1,500 screenings a year.

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