They first met at lunch in high school. “We didn’t really talk until this one time we were in the Philippines at the same time for separate reasons,” JP Quindara says. “I was like ‘yo, let’s...

  All images are courtesy of the creative team behind Bone Black: Midwives vs the South.      Bone Black: Midwives vs the South is an experimental documentary that is a love letter to Black birth...

The Community Builders Grant launched in 2019, with the vision of “helping build bridges between filmmakers and the community while elevating their production by arming them with the necessary tools to create”.    Now in...

“Like every other kid that was born in the late eighties, early nineties, I was watching a ton of television music videos… MTV, BET…” Ashley rattles off. Ashley Battle is a director and director of...

George Ellzey Jr. was always a lover of stories. He was raised in Chicago by a single mother. They didn’t have a lot of money. Whenever his mother wanted to treat her children to a...

When Grecia Aguilar was little, her mom would work night shifts. So, during the day, her mom would sometimes take Grecia and her two siblings to the movies to catch up on sleep. “We made...

  National Hispanic Heritage Month: Women Filmmakers to Follow Today's post is by guest writer Anna Cox from Pragda.   Living in a post-Roe v. Wade world has shifted our focus to bodies as we...

When Rosaleah Gonzalez toured the campus that would eventually become her college, she wanted to study gaming development....   “I grew up playing a bunch of video games,” she says, “but my mom was like...

Being an award-winning director and cinematographer might be the sole bragging point for many. But, for Troy Gueno, he isn’t in love with how the titles sound.  “It’s a little too grand for me,” he admits.Yet,...

The total Asian population in Chicago grew from 144,903 in 2010 to 189,857 in 2020 — a 31% increase. The South Asian community is especially prominent in Chicago, given that, as of 2015, the city...

In 2010, the Chicago South Asian Film Festival began. The founders saw the need to champion South Asian voices, both in the city of Chicago and on an international level. Held at the Chicago Cultural...

Rey here.   You might know me as the Camera Ambassador Client Relations and Marketing Associate. But, I’m also an advocate for trans rights! I’ve written extensively about being a trans athlete, directed narrative short...