Monday, May 3, 2010
5 PM (Reception)
6 PM (Screening)
Columbia College Chicago’s Film Row Cinema (1104 S Wabash)
Free and open to the public!
Register NOW!

We asked you to be radically creative and show the world what democracy — making it & sustaining it– means to you and you answered!

Join us as our Looking for Democracy Film Contest winners are unveiled.

The winning films are:

American Flag by Theophilius Jamal
Hungry for Change by Free Spirit Media & Umoja Student Development Corporation
Democracy 2 by The Theatre of Social Justice Project


Join us for a special screening of our winning short films, a conversation with the filmmakers, and a panel discussion entitled “Art Hurts, Art Urges Voyages” with local artists. Panelist include Xan Aranda, filmmaker and founder of the Short Film Brigade; Tara Malik, photographer and Program Director at Beyondmedia Education; and A. Zell Williams, playwright and recipient of a Steppenwolf Theatre Company fellowship. This celebration will be emceed by touring poet Robbie Q. Telfer, and feature youth poetry performances.

Teachers are encouraged to bring students to this intergenerational event. Email cak@prairie.org with your phone, email, school name, and number of students that will be attending.

This event is presented by The Public Square, a program of the Illinois Humanities Council; Independent Television Service (ITVS); Kartemquin Films; Independent Feature Project Chicago; Columbia College Television & Film Departments, Chicago Access Network Television; Chicago Short Film Brigade; Critical Encounters: Fact & Faith; and Reeltime Independent Film and Video Forum.

WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio is the media sponsor for this contest.