TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY / June 14

Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
700 E. Oakwood Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60653

2:00 p.m.

• Welcome to 1st Annual Bronzeville Film Fest Bennett Johnson, Vice President,Third World Press Foundation
• Welcome/Remarks - Dr. Conrad Worrill, Director, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
• The History of Bronzeville - Harold Lucas, President, Black Metropolis Convention & Tourism Council

2:30 p.m.

• Opening remarks  - Nate Grant, President, Lake Shore Film & Television Studios
• Feature film - “Murder in Harlem” (95 mins.) directed by Oscar Micheaux
• Q & A – Nate Grant

4:00 p.m.

• Intro of Peggy Montes– Leroy Kennedy, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Life of Oscar Micheaux - Peggy Montes, President, Bronzeville Children’s Museum
• Q & A – Peggy Montes and Nate Grant

4:30 p.m.

• Intro Tim Reid - Bennett Johnson
• Opening remarks  - Tim Reid, President, New Millennium Studios
• “Oscar Micheaux: A Legend in Black” (15 mins.) by Tim Reid
  A documentary that looks at the life and accomplishments of Oscar Micheaux as a man ahead of his time, from his days as a homesteader in South Dakota to his last film.

5:00 p.m.

• Intro of Stan Shaw - Delano O’Banion, retired Marshall High School teacher
• Opening remarks  - Stan Shaw, actor
• Documentary work in progress - “Roots of my Father, Blues Royalty” (8 mins.)
  The Blues is like a foundation.  The story of the legendary horn player, Eddie Shaw.
• “Close to Home” (37 mins.)
  A short film by Stan Shaw Presents
• Feature film -  “Displaced Person” (60 mins.)
  An orphaned Black child in Germany during World War II has never seen another Black person. He runs away from the orphanage to find his father and encounters an African American GI played by Stan Shaw in a memorable performance.
• Q&A – Stan Shaw

7:00 p.m.

• Closing remarks – Bennett Johnson
• Adjournment

Reception

7:00 p.m.

• Welcome – Daryl Newell, Senior Vice President ShoreBank
• Intro for Haki R. Madhubuti – Catherine Compton, Festival Coordinator
• Bronzeville Cultural Festival MIssion - Haki R. Madhubuti, Third World Press Foundation
• Keynote on festival/Coming attractions – Doshie Patterson, Branch Manager ShoreBank

7:30 p.m.

• “The South Shore Story”  (12 mins.)
  A documentary that tells the story of the evolution of ShoreBank

FRIDAY / June 15

Illinois Institute of Technology
McCormack Tribune Campus Center - Auditorium
3201 S. State St.
Chicago

2:00 p.m.

• Master of Ceremonies – Leroy Kennedy, Vice President, Community Affairs, IIT
  
  
• Opening remarks  – Llevelyn Rhone, Teen Living Board Member
• Documentary - “Teen Living Programs” (12 mins.)
  Participants tell the story of Chicago’s largest full-time residential program for homeless youth.
  Q & A – David Myers, Executive Director and teen participant
  
  
• Opening remarks  – Evan Allen-Gessessee, independent film producer
• Documentary work in progress - “Robben Island Singers” (9 mins)
• Documentary - “Robben Island Singers in Chicago( 3 mins)
  A demo showing the journey of three ex-political prisoners from an apartheid era prison with Nelson Mandela to a musical triumph on stage in America.
  Q & A – Evans Allen-Gessessee
  
  
• Opening remarks  - Virgil Jones, President, Link Unlimited
• Documentary  - “Link Unlimited” (13 mins.)
  The story of an organization that began 40 years ago by matching qualified African American 8th graders with mentors who would help them to attend college prep high schools and proceed to college.
  Q & A - Virgil Jones
  
  
• Opening remarks  – Smalley Mike Cook, independent film producer
• Documentary  - “Defenders of the Race” (38 mins )
  Mike Cook interviews Mr. John Sengstacke, publisher of Chicago Defender
  Q & A – Mike Cook
  
  
• Opening remarks  – Roosevelt College alumnus
• Documentary feature - “The Roosevelt Experiment: An Integrated College in a Segregated City” (22 mins.)
  Film chronicles the controversial origins of RooseveltUniversity as told by the first college students in Chicago to cross the color line, including Mayor Harold Washington, former student council president.
  Q & A – Roosevelt College alumni and Bennett Johnson
  
  
• Opening remarks  – Attorney, James Montgomery, Cochran & Montgomery
• Documentary  - “Harold Washington Remembered” (10 mins.)
  Participants in the movement to elect Harold Washington recall his untimely death and remarkable impact on the city.
  Q & A – Attorney James Montgomery and Bennett Johnson

4:30 p.m.

• Intro of Laurens Grant – Nate Grant
• Opening remarks  - Laurens Grant, independent film producer
• Documentary feature & Emmy Award winner -  “The Murder of Emmett Till” (57 mins.)
  In August 1955, a 14 year old black boy whistled at a white woman in Money Mississippi and was brutally killed.  Till’s death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement and the Montgomery bus boycott.
• Q & A - Laurens Grant

6:00 p.m.

• Reception in ballroom

6:30 p.m.

• Intro of Bobby Sengstacke – Nate Grant
• Opening remarks  - Bobby Sengstacke, Cinematographer
• Documentary feature - “Portraits of Black Chicago” (90 mins.)
  Portraits of Black Chicago, features 12 stories of Black people in Chicago who have made significant contributions to the success of the Black community and the city of Chicago
  Q&A - Bobby Sengstacke

8:30 p.m.

• Opening remarks - Nate Grant
• Feature film - “Underworld” (63 mins.) directed by Oscar Micheaux
  Story of a young graduate of a Southern Black college, who goes to Chicago, becomes romantically involved unknowingly with the “big man’s” girl.

10:00 p.m.

• Closing remarks – Leroy Kennedy
• Adjournment

FRIDAY / June 15

Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
700 E. Oakwood Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60653

2:00 p.m.

• Master of Ceremonies
  Jun Mhoon, President, IAM, Digital Music & Media
• Karla DiBenedetto
  Documentary “On the Grind” (12 mins.)
  
  
• Opening remarks  - Larry Shannon, independent film producer
• Music video “UR My People” (9 mins.)
  Images depicting a troubled marriage set to Gospel music.
  
  
• Opening remarks  - Karla DiBenedetto, independent film producer
• Documentary - “On the Grind” (12 mins.)
  A social portrait featuring street rapper, Artino Rope who faces the possibility of homelessness and must reconcile the consequences of his quest for fame.
  Q & A – Karla DiBenedetto and  Larry Shannon

2:45 p.m. - Panel Discussion: The Future is Now – Marketing Arts and New Media

• Jun Mhoon, I AM Music Online/Apple/iTunes Digital Content Aggregator
• Val Moore, Founder, BlackFilms.com
• James Nicholes, Digital Media Consultant with EMI music/WB music
• Kahlill Vanzant, Rolling Out Urbanstyle Weekly - Chicago

This panel of digital media insiders will discuss the current state of the industry, including hot button issues such as: How big media companies will balance the opportunities presented by digital distribution with the possible cannibalization of existing businesses? What are the most likely business models for user-generated content? What is the future for ad-supported free distribution of digital content - including film, music and video online? What is the next big thing in digital media in the next 12 months to 2 years and who will be the winners and losers in the years to come?

4:20 p.m. - Panel Discussion: The Art of the Music Video

• TJ Armour, Video Show Producer
• DJ Fink, Clubbin TV
• Kenyatta Mootrie, Casting Agent

Some of Chicago’s most respected Hip Hop Video Show Hosts, Producers and Casting Agents will gather to take a look back at some of the best and worst Hip Hop videos from over the last 25 years. The Panel will discuss what videos have been the most influential, while also exploring the artistic value and professional development that goes into shooting Hip-Hop’s hottest videos.

5:15 p.m. - Panel Discussion: A Woman’s Worth - A Critical Look at Women in Film and Music Video

• Dawnelissa Fischer. Anthropologist/Youth and Education Coord. at Stanford’s Hiphop Archive
• Teefa, Rapper/Host of WGCI’s A/B Side Mix Show
• Trey the Choklit Jock, Host of Power 92’s Trey the Choklit Jock Morning Show
• Y’Tasha Womack, Co-Author of ‘Beats, Rhymes and Life/Film Producer
• Mary Datcher, Founder & CEO of On the Street Promotions & Global Mixx Music Conference
• Jesse “GodFatha” Jones, Founder & CEO of Worldwide Power Partners, Inc./Music Manager

In light of recent scandals and the glare of criticism surrounding hip hop music and images, this panel will take an indepth 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.

• Both panels moderated by TJ Crawford and La’Keisha Gray-Sewell

6:30 p.m.

• Closing remarks – Jun Mhoon
• Adjournment

SATURDAY / June 16

Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
700 E. Oakwood Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60653

12:00 p.m.

• Opening remarks  - Liz Donius, Executive Director, Independent Film Producers
  Documentary feature - “The Last Stain”  (17 mins.)
  Smitty and Brodsky are two friends desperate to make money, but a plan goes wrong leaving them stuck between doing what’s right and living for the moment.  When push comes to shove, is hustling worth your life?
• Documentary  - “The Making of The Last Stain”
• Q & A – CVS students and Liz Donius

12:45 p.m.

• Opening remarks  – Scott Muhammad
• Discussion of “Project 666”, new work on the urban problem of homicide
• Introduction of emerging filmmakers

1:00 p.m.

• Opening remarks  – Ultrey Jewel
  Feature film - “Billiken & Me” (57 mins)
  A social look at Chicago from the turn of the century to now focusing on the Bud Billiken Parade.
  Q & A – Utrey Jewel

2:15 p.m.

• Opening remarks  - Larry Shannon Family Values (90 mins.)
  Documentary feature - “Herb Kent Story” (55 mins)
  A chronicle of the life and times of legendary Chicago media personality Herb Kent
  Q & A – Herb Kent and Larry Shannon

3:30 p.m.

• Opening remarks  - Nate Grant, LakeShore Film & Television Production
  Short feature film - “Over the Rainbow” (12 mins.)
  A young man attempts to romance a young woman who doesn’t want to be bothered until something extraordinary happens.
  Q & A – Nate Grant
  
  
• Opening remarks – Marnita Gibson
• Experimental film - “Dog Park” – Marnita Gibson (1:30)
• Experimental film - “That’s Life” – Marnita Gibson (1:30)
• Q & A – Marnita Gibson and Nate Grant

4:00 p.m.

• Opening remarks - Bernard Williams
  Feature film presentation  “Kissing Bandit” (90 mins.)
  Comedy featuring a phone store worker’s wife, who is an ambitious prosecutor, kicks him out for sexual performance problems.  A gorgeous redhead shows up at his new pad and while she promises to fulfill his secret sexual fantasy, she prowls at night making the same promise to many other men she seduces and rips off.
• Q & A - Bernard Williams

4:00 p.m.

• Closing remarks – Nate Grant
• Adjournment

SATURDAY / June 16

Illinois Institute of Technology
McCormick Tribune Campus Center Auditorium
3201 South State St.
Chicago, IL 60616

12:00 p.m.

• Intro Dwayne Muhammad - James Muhammad
• Documentary feature - "Unmasking New Orleans"
• An in depth examination of the Hurricane Katrina disaster
• Q & A - Dwayne Muhammad and John Davis
• "On Common Ground"
  College students give up spring break to help rebuild New Orleans

2:00 p.m.

• Intro Clarence Jones – Bennett Johnson
• Presentation on Business of filmmaking – Clarence B. Jones, producer and attorney
• Intro Daphne Reid – Clarence B. Jones
• Opening remarks  - Daphne Reid
• Feature film -  “Asunder” (102 mins.)
  A romantic suspense thriller in which an attraction turns fatal. Friends since college, two couples Chance and Roberta Williams and Michael and Lauren Hubs share an idyllic evening out at a local fair. The night ends in tragedy with the death of Roberta and her unborn child in a freak accident. Lauren and Michael try as best as they can to console Chance during his time of grief, yet gradually Chance becomes mentally unbalanced due to his loss.
• Q & A – Daphne Reid and Tim Reid

4:30 p.m.

• Intro Sam Greenlee and Tim Reid – Bernard Williams, independent film producer
• Feature film -   “Spook Who Sat by the Door” (101 mins.)
  After five years of actively playing the role of the happy and dutiful Uncle Tom as the first Black CIA agent, Dan Freeman leaves the CIA for a higher paying job as a social worker in his hometown of Chicago. In his new profession he will be working with the King Cobras, the most notorious gang in the city. He secretly trains the members of the gang, using all that he learned during his CIA training. Freeman’s definitive objective is to train an army of Black revolutionaries throughout the nation, which will stand up and liberate Black America.
• Q & A – Sam Greenlee & Tim Reid

6:30 p.m.

• Closing remarks – Bennett Johnson
• Adjournment

6:30 p.m.

• VIP reception (Invitation only)
• Presentation of the Bronzeville Film Festival Awards