Black Harvest Film Festival to celebrate 30 years at School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — The Gene Siskel Film Center’s annual Black Harvest Film Festival is just around the corner, celebrating three decades of showcasing Black cinematic voices and visions across the diaspora.

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This year’s Black Harvest Film Festival features more than 75 Chicago premieres, with 13 feature films and 10 shorts programs from 18 different countries, including Raoul Peck’s documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found; the Chicago premiere of the Charles Burnett’s long un-seen The Annihilation of Fish, with Burnett in person; and an evening with visionary film and television director Terence Nance. In honor of this milestone celebration, the DIRTY 30s shorts program captures life’s humor, heart, and complexities in your thirties, reflecting on the festival’s journey to 30 years.

Audiences will enjoy exclusive screenings, thought-provoking dialogues, and celebratory receptions as they come together to honor three decades of Black Harvest.

Born from an urgent need to celebrate the Black experience, …