An Evening With Spike Lee

In Conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Stewart

Join Academy Award winner Spike Lee for an illuminating conversation about his iconic body of work, which has made an indelible mark on filmmaking, television, and popular culture. His career spans over 30 years and includes such films as She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers, Girl 6, Get on the Bus, He Got Game, Summer of Sam, Bamboozled, 25th Hour, She Hate Me, Inside Man, Miracle at St. Anna, Red Hook Summer, Old Boy, Chi-Raq, BlacKkKlansman, and this year’s Highest 2 Lowest. Lee’s outstanding feature documentary work includes the double Emmy® Award-winning If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, a follow-up to his HBO documentary film When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, the Peabody Award-winning A Huey P Newton Story, and 4 Little Girls, Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary.

Dr. Jacqueline Stewart is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). A 2021 MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship recipient, Stewart is an award-winning film historian, author, and archivist dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices in cinema. From 2022-2024, Stewart served as Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Author and editor of numerous publications, Stewart co-curated the five-disc set Pioneers of African American Cinema for Kino Lorber and serves as chair of the National Film Preservation Board. Stewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project, a community-centered archival program at the University of Chicago that is celebrating its 20th year in 2025.