Best of Black Harvest Film Festival: India of K-Town
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Free film presentation: India of K-Town, a film by Beverly Price. An engaging and inspirational story of, India, a young adopted teen living in Chicago’s K-Town neighborhood, who is struggling to overcome a devastating past, when a fashion designer to celebrities including Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey, agrees to design her prom dress. Through the good-natured, give-and-take of the design process, India learns important life lessons. (2009, 70 min., dvd projection)
Location: West Englewood Branch Library, 1745 West 63rd Street, Chicago
For the past 17 years, the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has presented the Black Harvest Film Festival. It is the Midwest’s largest and longest running festival dedicated to telling stories of the black experience.
In partnership with the Chicago Public Library, the Gene Siskel Film Center has selected six films to be featured in the Best of the Black Harvest Film Festival. In addition to viewing the selected films, guests of the Best of the Black Harvest Film Festival will have an opportunity to participate in audience discussions with many of the filmmakers. Snacks will be provided and all films are family-friendly.
Guests will also have the chance to receive tickets to this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago. To learn more about Black Harvest, visit www.siskelfilmcenter.org.
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Best of Black Harvest Film Festival: India of K-Town
1745 West 63rd
Chicago, IL 60636
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Black Harvest Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center
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