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Well Vanessa already spilled the beans about The Kill Hole at this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago next month, but that’s all good. In fact the official schedule list for the festival, its18th year, which runs next month Aug.3-30 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago  was announced yesterday and will [...]

Continue Reading ‘Wolf’, ‘The Kill Hole’, and ‘The Last Fall’ At 18th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago

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Getting personal here since I’ve been involved with it from the very beginning and even despite the fact that it’s early April, before you know it it will be that time of year again (where does the time go?) for The Black Harvest Film Festival. The festival takes place, as it always does, this summer at [...]

Continue Reading Submissions Now Being Accepted For The Black Harvest Film Festival 2012

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34 years after its original release, Stony Island, the debut feature by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive, Under Seige, Collateral Damage), will be available for the first time on DVD and digital download platforms on April 24. Filmed on the South Side of Chicago, the movie centers on a group of young musicians who form an [...]

Continue Reading 1978 Musical Drama "Stony Island" Comes to DVD for the First Time Ever

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Along with Black Venus another film we”ve covered extensively here on S A is British filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s naturalistic, revisonist new film version of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in the Yorkshire Moors with Heathcliff reimagined as a runaway black slave (played by James Howson) along with “rough language and kinky eroticism” And now the [...]

Continue Reading "Wuthering Heights" Advance Screening In Chicago Next Month

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