Film News: 2016 Black Harvest Festival Closes in Chicago on Sept. 1 with ‘Agents of Change’

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CHICAGO – A sold out Gene Siskel Film Center will be the scene for the Closing Night of the 2016 Black Harvest Film Festival on Thursday, September 1st, 2016. For the last three and a half weeks, the theater has been buzzing with African American-centric films, in a celebration of culture and history. The Closing Night Film is “Agents of Change: Black Students and the Transformation of the American University,” directed by Frank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg. The directors will be in attendance.

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Closing Night: ‘Agents of Change: Black Students and the Transformation of the American University’
Photo credit: Black Harvest Film Festival

The Gene Siskel Film Center is part of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and presents the Black Harvest Film Festival every year, along with other festival celebrations, restorations, cutting edge new films and discussions/filmmaker appearances with many screenings. For more information, click here.

The Gene Siskel Film Center is located at 164 North State Street in Chicago. For a list of their film series for the month of September, and Autumn of 2016, click here.

HollywoodChicago.com senior staff writer Patrick McDonald

By PATRICK McDONALD
Writer, Editorial Coordinator
HollywoodChicago.com
pat@hollywoodchicago.com

© 2016 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com

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