Community Cinema
Presented by Wintrust
Community Cinema brings free screenings and post-film conversations to neighborhoods across Chicago. The program spotlights compelling stories and ignites conversations around timely social and cultural themes, while upholding the artistic excellence of the Festival. At its core, Community Cinema is about access, inclusion, and building community through the power of film.
This year, Community Cinema screenings will be hosted at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen and Kennedy-King College in Englewood.
Free Tickets
All Community Cinema screenings are free and open to the public.
Venue doors will open 30 minutes prior to screening time. Please arrive early as seating is general, on a first-come, first-served basis, and is limited to theater capacity. The theater is overbooked to ensure a full house. Admission is not guaranteed.
Accessibility
All Community Cinema venues are fully wheelchair accessible. Wheelchair and companion seating reservations, interpreter requests, and other accommodation requests can be made through our accommodation request form. Learn more about accessibility at Community Cinema…
To make a reservation or for any general questions or comments about accessibility at Summer Screenings, please fill out our request form, email us at access@chicagofilmfestival.com, or call us at 312.683.0121 x108.
Screening Venues
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608
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Kennedy-King College
U-Building Theater
740 W 63rd St, Chicago, IL 60621
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Upcoming Community Cinema Screenings
Wed, Sept 24 @ 6:30pm
Kennedy-King College
Cooley High
Set in early 1960s Chicago, Cooley High follows two best friends as they navigate their senior year at Cooley Vocational School near Cabrini-Green. Between everyday adventures, neighborhood tensions, and dreams of the future, they imagine lives far beyond the confines of their community. 107 min.
Scheduled to attend:
WGN TV Entertainment Producer Tyra Martin, casting director Pemon Rami, and Grow Greater Englewood co-founder Anton Seals, Jr.
Thu, Sept 25 @ 6:30pm
National Museum of Mexican Art
ASCO: Without Permission
ASCO: Without Permission profiles the extraordinary, LA-based, Chicano art group ASCO, and through a genre-defying approach, reimagines what is possible today in art and cinema while celebrating an iconoclastic group that was far ahead of its time. 103 min
Scheduled to Attend:
Director Travis Gutiérrez Senger, ASCO members Patssi Valdez and Harry Gamboa Jr.
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