The (In)Justice for All Film Festival is back and we’ll be screening our film, The End of the Night Stick this coming Sunday – April 12 at Gallery 400. Following the screening, we’ll be discussing the legacy and history of Chicago police torture. We’ll also be briefed on the finance Read more…
NOTE: This event was rescheduled from February 15 due to weather. Black Cinema House and South Side Projections are proud to present a screening of films about Mayor Harold Washington. Following the film will be a wide-ranging discussion with some of the people who made the films and other people Read more…
“Chiraq” is a term that many use to describe Chicago and its gun violence problem, but many native Chicagoans find the term problematic. Find out why in this short documentary. Be sure to follow and like us!
Rondell Freeman in the role of a Chicago Police officer. Over 90 percent of the project was filmed using green screen.
Prologue Early College students spent the months of October and November brainstorming, writing, storyboarding and filming an instructional video on what to do when interacting with Chicago police officers, tentatively titled “Know Your Rights, But…”. The video came about as part of collaboration between the Video Production class taught by CTVN’s Vedran Residbegovic and Art of Communication class taught by Prologue teacher Dr. Virginia Boyle.
The 86 students at one of CTVN’s Alternative School sites, Winnie Mandela Intergenerational Alternative school do not have a lunch program. A group of students, tired of being hungry all day, have decided to change that. The social justice and video production class has begun a campaign, dubbed the Read more…
Invincible. Know it all. Experienced. All adjectives and phrases that you believe about yourself once you come out of college and into the real world. You think you’ve done it all, think you’ve seen it all, think you’ve learned it all. But the truth is, you really haven’t. Being an Read more…
We’re proud of our students at CTVN’s video production program at Prologue Early College, co-taught by Vedran Residbegovic and Virginia Boyle, who won the national video challenge by the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation with their entry “What is Freedom,” a public service announcement informing people about modern day slavery. 17 Read more…
Last week Vedran Residbegovic’s After School Matters class had an opportunity to learn lighting techniques and tricks from film expert Bill Sacco. Bill Sacco worked for Harpo Productions, Oprah Winfrey’s production studio from 1996 to 2011. Mr Sacco brought in his lighting equipment to teach technical and aesthetic aspects of Read more…