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  Turning a Corner

  Chicago

  Turning a Corner tells the stories of people involved in the sex trade and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created in a media activism workshop with over a dozen members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination, and gives rare insights into Chicago’s sex trade industry. The new version includes interview updates with many of the participants from the original film.

  Through Beyondmedia’s Women and Prison program, incarcerated women and girls, former prisoners and their families use media arts to voice their stories, promoting public dialogue, healing and community organizing. Since 1997, Beyondmedia has collaborated extensively with women and girls in prison and after their incarceration to create interdisciplinary, multimedia educational forums on women and prison.

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  Hot Video with Chicago Conspiracy

  Blog, Chicago

  Aaron Sorkin’s recent film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, has revived interest in the historical events which took place in Chicago between 1968 and 1970.  During the entire trial between September 1969 and February 1970, seven of the eight defendants (Bobby Seale had been removed from the trial and left Chicago) gathered as a complete group only twice. The following video is a documentation of one of those two occurrences. R.G. Davis, founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, […]

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  The Last Campaign of Lady Jane

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Politics

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  Ed Kelly and the Fighting 47th

  Chicago, Chicago Politics

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  ’63 Boycott Teaser

  63 Boycott, Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  WATCH IT ON VHX WATCH IT ON PBS WORLD CHANNEL WATCH IT ON BULLFROG FILMS PURCHASE NOW   Access Curriculum Guide Help Identify 1963 Participants

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  Sugar or Plain?

  Chicago, Image Union

  Short comedic video by Eggboy Productions featuring Jim Belushi.

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  [EGGBOY Productions]

  Chicago

  A young woman brings her boyfriend to meet her highly religious parents. They strongly disapprove of him, and she seeks solace in the confessional.

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  [’63 Boycott raw: Timuel Black interview]

  63 Boycott, Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. This interview features Timuel Black, a long-time Civil Rights activist, educator, and historian of African-American history. In the 1960s Black served as an adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and led the Chicago contingent to the 1963 March on Washington.