Followed by extended post-screening panel discussion.
Sunday, May 7 at 1:00pm | For decades, documentaries have spoken truth to power and exposed inequity and injustice - but what about documentaries’ own biases, imbalances, and abuses? Filmmakers Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall go behind the scenes of such famous nonfiction stories as HOOP DREAMS, CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS, MINDING THE GAP, and THE STAIRCASE to reveal the murky ethical dilemmas and complex relationships that exist between documentary filmmakers, their real-life subjects, and the audiences who watch them. Who gets to tell whose story? What’s it like to be left behind when the cameras stop rolling? And what are the lines between empathy and exploitation? “Entertaining,” “thoroughly effective” (The Hollywood Reporter), “inspired” (Village Voice), “fascinating” (CBS News) and crafted with “fluidity and grace” (Indiewire), SUBJECT is a vital exposé of the media and its messengers, trauma and resilience. Followed by extended post-screening panel discussion.
Doc10 Film Festival: Doc10 is Chicago’s only all-documentary film festival and provides an engaging experience for its audiences, reaching thousands of local cinephiles over the last seven years. Now in its 8th year, Doc10 has firmly set its place in Chicago’s cultural scene. Each year over three days and evenings, the Festival screens the 10 best documentaries culled from Sundance, Tribeca, Hot Docs, DOC NYC and other top-tier festivals across the nation. This is the first, and often exclusive, opportunity for Chicagoans to see extraordinary films. Twenty of the 50+ films we’ve premiered have been shortlisted or nominated for Academy Awards. doc10.org
More Doc10 at the Film Center: SHORTS: THE ENDEARING EIGHT (Sat. May 6, 12:00pm), UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS (Sat. May 6, 12:00pm), GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT (Sat. May 6, 8:00pm).
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