The festival will continue through Saturday, June 16 at Carruthers Center and Illinois Institute of Technology’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center’s auditorium, 3201 S. State St., Chicago. Admission is free.
Reid, who has written, directed and produced such films as “Asunder” and “Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored,” and starred on numerous TV shows from WKRP in Cincinnati to Sister Sister, will also present the 1973 revolutionary classic “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” along with Sam Greenlee, author of the 1969 book at 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 16.
Shaw, a character lead in films since the mid-1970s, will offer a preview of the documentary “Roots of My Father, Blues Royalty,” featuring his father and brother, Blues legend Eddie Shaw and guitar legend Eddie Vann Shaw. The festival will also screen the film “Displaced Person,” which features one of Shaw’s most memorable performances. The actor, who is best remembered as the boxer in “Harlem Nights” (1989), also starred in “Roots” (1977), and co-starred in Brian De Palma's “Snake Eyes” (1998).
Other highlights of the festival include:
- a presentation of “The Murder of Emmett Till” by producer Laurens Grant;
- a screening of “The Last Stain,” an Emmy-award winning short film by Chicago Vocational Career Academy students produced as part of the Summer Production Mentorship Program, a collaboration between IFP/Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools;
- “Portraits of Black Chicago,” a documentary profiling prominent Black Chicagoans by Bobby Sengstacke;
- a panel discussion by digital media insiders to discuss the current state of the industry, including hot button issues such as “what is the next big thing in digital media in the next 1 to 2 years and who will be the winners and losers in the years to come?”;
- a look at the art of music videos;
- and an in-depth look at the value that women bring to hip hop music and videos, while also exploring how women are valued in communities of color and America in general.
The Bronzeville Film Festival is being organized by Third World Press Foundation to showcase feature films, documentaries, short films and videos that communicate the sophistication, significance and history of the African American community in order to promote appreciation of film as an art form and a vehicle for education, as well as entertainment.
Sponsors include ShoreBank, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Public Radio, Illinois Film Office, ICE Theaters, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago State University, Diverse, Rolling Out newspaper and Highland Bank.
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