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Below is a sampling from our past:
2018
OCTOBER 28, 2018
PRIVATE EVENT "THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED" COMMUNITY SCREENING AT THE BRIDGEPORT ART CENTER
When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
Director/Producer: Assia Boundaoui
Producer: Jessica Devaney
Location: Bridgeport Art Center | 1200 W 35th St, Chicago IL, 60609
CMP members joined, director Assia Boundaoui + producer Jessica Devaney, as well as community partners: the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), Arab American Family Services (AAFS), TAKE ON HATE, CAIR-Chicago, and a host of others, for a film screening town hall and Q&A. In addition, CMP is proud to support the launch of The Feeling of Being Watched INVERSE SURVEILLANCE Impact Campaign.
OCTOBER 19, 2018
PRIVATE MEMBER BREAKFAST WITH ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS AND OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS
SEPTEMBER 23-26, 2018 - CMP @ SUNDANCE CATALYST (MEMBER EXCLUSIVE)
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 - DINNER & DOCS @ THE DAVIS - LOVE, GILDA by LISA DAPOLITO
Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonies from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an icon on "Saturday Night Live."
AUGUST 2, 2018 - CMP MEMBER RETREAT
JULY 10, 2018 - DINNER & DOCS IN MILLENNIUM PARK - PERFORMANCE BY THE FLYING WALLENDAS AND SCREENING OF MAN ON WIRE
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
APRIL 29 - MAY 2, 2018 - HOTDOCS FIRST LOOK TORONTO
APRIL 5-8, 2018: DOC10 2018
Chicago's highly-pedigreed, all documentary film festival. For full details at: DOC10.org
Included screenings of:
Won't You Be My Neighbor
Love Means Zero
Crime + Punishment
Bisbee '17
On Her Shoulders
306 Hollywood
RBG
Devil's Freedom
The Other Side of Everything
Minding The Gap
The King
FEBRUARY 22, 2018: DINNER & DOCS @ THE DAVIS - ICARUS by BRYAN FOGEL
When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic Gold-exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.
JANUARY 18, 2018: CMP @ SUNDANCE 2018
2017
DECEMBER 14, 2017: CMP BIG TABLE DINNER: COCKTAILS WITH COOPER - SUNDANCE PREVIEW
NOVEMBER 30, 2017: DINNER & DOCS @ THE DAVIS - VOYEUR by: MYLES KANE & JOSH KOURY
Legendary journalist Gay Talese unmasks a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. But his bombshell story soon becomes a scandal of its own.
NOVEMBER 9, 2017: CMP @ DOCNYC: BEHIND THE SCENES
OCTOBER 5, 2017: CMP BIG TABLE DINNER: LA - SONY PICTURES LOT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017: DINNER & DOCS @ THE DAVIS THEATER - NO MAN'S LAND by DAVID BYARS
David Byars’ No Man's Land offers a detailed account of the impasse, displaying unprecedented access to the protagonists of this incident, and culminating in a thrilling climax that resulted in the arrest and acquittal of occupation leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and left another man dead. The film presents an unbiased snapshot of a crisis that ultimately proved a foreshadowing of our current political climate, and what may turn out to be a blueprint of future domestic encounters between our government and civilians.
JULY 17, 2017: DINNER & DOCS @ THE DAVIS THEATER - CITY OF GHOSTS by MATTHEW HEINEMAN
City of Ghosts by Matthew Heineman
On a quarterly basis we'll host great new docs paired with fabulous dinners prepared by chef Gil Langlois at CARBON ARC restaurant, followed by Q&A with the director and special guests.
APRIL 29 - MAY 2, 2017: BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE HOTDOCS FILM FESTIVAL & FORUM
Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, offers an outstanding selection of over 200 films from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences of more than 200,000. We take a small group of CMP members to experience this festival up close and personal. Meetings with HotDocs programmers, filmmakers, and international sales agents make this trip educational and a fantastic insight into the world of international documentary financing! Reserve your place today!
MARCH 30 -APRIL 2, 2017: DOC10 FILM FESTIVAL at THE DAVIS THEATRE, 4614 N Lincoln Ave.
DOC10 FILM FEST is back for a second year of ten documentary gems and ten Chicago premieres. 4 days of movies, dinners, pitches, filmmakers, and events! SAVE THE DATE! And check out DOC10.ORG for more info!
MARCH 7, 2017: THE LEGEND OF SWEE'PEA at the MWIFF
We join the Midwest Independent Film Festival in screening this fantastic sports documentary about a basketball legend and his fall from grace. A lead-up to DOC10, it's a real crowdpleaser! Click here to reserve your seat!
Feburary 2, 2017, 8 PM: SOLITARY presented by CMP & Doc10 Film Festival
Director: Kristi Jacobson
In this chilling investigative portrait, award-winning filmmaker Kristi Jacobson gains unprecedented and unrestricted access to the supermax Red Onion State Prison in the Appalachian mountains. Through startlingly intimate interviews, we hear about violent childhoods, the dangers of prison life, and the struggle to maintain sanity within 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement in 8' x 10' cells. Interwoven with the inmates' heartrending stories are the voices of the corrections officers, who attempt to maintain their own humanity amid the dehumanizing conditions of their workplace. "Penetrating" and "immersive" (Los Angeles Times) and "intelligent, thoughtful and tough" (Flavorwire), this extraordinary documentary--nominated for this year's Truer than Fiction Spirit Award--uses evocative sound design and compelling personal stories to create a vivid and complex snapshot of crime and punishment in America today.
Post-screening discussion with director Kristi Jacobson and Uptown People's Law Center Executive Director Alan Mills and Prisoners' Rights Coordinator Brian Nelson, moderated by DOC10 curator/journalist Anthony Kaufman.
Courtesy of HBO Documentary Films.
January 26, 2017, 7pm.: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO at the Dusable Museum Of African American History
Director: Raoul Peck
Presented in conjunction with Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Unsparing as history and enthralling as biography. It’s an evocation of a passionate soul in a tumultuous era. Full review
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
You'll spend a kaleidoscopic and transporting 90 minutes living inside James Baldwin's mind, coming thrillingly close to his existential perception of the hidden meaning of race in America.Full review
Owen Gleiberman
Variety