Interviews
February 03, 2020
How “Cooked” Evolved into an Investigation of the Disaster Underlying a Disaster
Craig Phillips in Interviews
Documentary filmmaker Judith Helfand is best known for her ability to take the dark worlds of chemical exposure, heedless corporate behavior and environmental injustice and make them personal, highly-charged and…...
Beyond the Films
January 28, 2020
From Race Riots to Rainbow Coalitions and Heatwaves: Chicago Activism on Racial and Economic Justice
Craig Phillips in Beyond the Films
It would be foolhardy to try to succinctly sum up the political history of one of America's most historically politically complicated cities--Chicago--in one sweeping post. Rather, consider this a basic…...
Interviews
January 22, 2020
Finding Common Ground: The Story of an Unlikely Chicago Alliance
Craig Phillips in Interviews
It takes an incredible amount of tenacity and belief in a project to stick with it for 14 years, but that's just how long it took for Ray Santisteban to…...