Throughout February, SocialWorks is screening Black movies like Hollywood Shuffle, with Robert Townsend; Set It Off, with Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah; Fences; the Chicago-set movie Love Jones; the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; and more. SocialWorks, founded by Grammy-award-winning musician and humanitarian Chance the Rapper, aims to empower the youth through the arts, education and civic engagement.
The final day concludes on Sunday, March 1 highlighting some of the best young indie Chicago and midwest filmmakers; included this year are films like Sugar Hill, Brothers from the Suburbs, The CTA project, and Present Tense.
See http://ShowplaceIcon.com to purchase tickets; for more information, visit http://SocialWorkChi.org/news/3rd-annual-black-history-month-film-festival.