"With the fall chill in the air and the holidays on the horizon, Black Harvest Film Festival is set to return to the Gene Siskel Film Center, Nov 7-16. The festival, programmed by Jada-Amina and Nick Leffel, boasts an eclectic and vibrant array of Black stories whose diasporic origins and bold ingenuity provide cinematic warmth to a dedicated community. This year, the festival contains eight feature films, nine shorts programs, and a long list of guests like "The Inquisitor" filmmaker Angela Lynn Tucker and "BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions" director Kahlil Joseph. There's even a mystery movie."
"For the last couple of years, Black Harvest has made a point of including restorations and retrospective programming, such as Charles Burnett's " The Annihilation of Fish " in 2024 and its look back at John Singleton in 2023. This year, they're welcoming two "new" titles: the first being Ossie Davis's "Black Girl." Davis, if you didn't know, wasn't only immortalized as Da Mayor in "Do the Right Thing." He's also one of cinema's great (Black) directors."
Black Harvest Film Festival runs Nov. 7–16 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, programmed by Jada-Amina and Nick Leffel. The lineup includes eight feature films, nine shorts programs, and numerous guests such as filmmaker Angela Lynn Tucker and director Kahlil Joseph. Programming emphasizes diasporic Black stories, restorations, and retrospectives alongside new titles and a mystery movie. A restored Ossie Davis film, Black Girl, screens Nov. 16 and stars Brock Peters, Peggy Pettitt, and Ruby Dee, exploring motherhood, sisterhood, and Black womanhood while underscoring Davis's directorial legacy that includes Cotton Comes to Harlem and Gordon's War.
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