- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 24, 2011
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Two on Yunus
Two documentaries on Nobel-winning microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus, who's fighting to keep his position as the head of the Grameen Bank he founded: "Bonsai" 3/24 and "To Catch a Dollar" 3/31.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2011
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Living for 32
Kevin Breslin's short documentary "Living for 32," about Colin Goddard, antigun activist and Virginia Tech shooting survivor, screens Friday 2/25 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival, which runs through Sunday 2/27 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 19, 2011
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The Interrupters
Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz tail former gang members addressing urban violence as a public health crisis in the Kartemquin Films documentary "The Interrupters," premiering Friday 1/21 at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2011
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Triple Play for Swanberg
Joe Swanberg's "Uncle Kent" opens Friday in the Sundance Film Festival and on IFC, and his "Art History" and "Silver Bullets" premiere next month in the Berlin Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 31, 2010
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Saint Louis Blues
Dyana Gaye's Senegalese musical "Saint Louis Blues" and Alla Kovgan and David Hinton's "Nora" about Zimbabwean dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire screen tonight in the Black Harvest Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 29, 2010
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African Women and Science Fiction
Wanuri Kahiu's post-apocalyptic short "Pumzi" screens and YA novelist Nnedi Okorafor reads and speaks in the African Woman and Science Fiction program Sunday at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 7, 2010
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The Equation of Love and Death
Cao Baoping's Chinese romantic mystery "The Equation of Love and Death" screens for free Wednesday and Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 15, 2010
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Lunchfilm
Sundance programmer Mike Plante screens movies he commissioned for the price of lunch (more or less) in Lunchfilm Friday 1/15 at Chicago Filmmakers.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 3, 2009
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The Pool
Chris Smith's 2007 Sundance winner "The Pool" compares favorably with "Slumdog Millionaire," another Westerner's view of a poor Indian teen in love, in its wry humor and unmelodramatic look at social inequality. "The Pool" screens Tuesday 11/3 at the Midwest Independent Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2009
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Asian American Showcase: Chicago connections
A handful of locally connected filmmakers screen among the national selections in week 2 of Asian American Showcase.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2006
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Sundance Festival announces 2007 line-up
The 2007 Sundance feature line-up
