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Conversations at the Edge: Fall Season at Gene Siskel Center

By Reel Chicago Sep 17, 2021

Conversations at the Edge’s fall 2021 calendar begins Thursday, September 23 with a season of virtual and in-person screenings and talks by groundbreaking media artists. ...

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Siskel Center names L’Soft as Black Harvest associate programmer

By Reel Chicago Sep 2, 2021

The Gene Siskel Film Center has named L'Soft (they/them) as its Black Harvest Film Festival Associate Programmer. In this new position for the Film Center, created with t...

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Full Spectrum Features announces selections for Chicagoland Shorts

By Reel Chicago Aug 31, 2021

Full Spectrum Features (FSF) announces the films and filmmakers selected to take part in Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 7, an annual short film collection featuring boundary-pushing, ...

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Gotham winner ‘Identifying Features’ comes to Siskel

By Reel Chicago Jan 15, 2021

The acclaimed, gripping Mexican border thriller from debut Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Valadez, Identifying Features, will open January 22 with Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center...

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Barbara Scharres retires from Gene Siskel Film Center

By Reel Chicago Nov 25, 2020

After more than 45 years of service, Barbara Scharres (MFA 1972) will retire from her position as Director of Programming at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene...

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Transgender doc ‘Born to Be’ opens in Chicago 11.20

By Reel Chicago Nov 12, 2020

Born to Be follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City-where, for t...

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