The eleventh edition of the annual festival of black independent film runs from Friday, July 31, through Sunday, August 9 at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson, and at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Tickets are $5, with discounts available to Blacklight and Film Center members. For more information call 443-3737 or 281-4114
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STEPPING RAZOR–RED X A documentary feature from Canada by Nicholas Campbell about the life and violent death (in 1987) of reggae artist and radical Jamaican political activist Peter Tosh. (Film Center, 8:30)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1
THIS LAND IS OURS Saddik Balewa’s Nigerian feature, coproduced by London’s National Film and Television School, focuses on religious, political, and property conflicts in a small village (1991). (Film Center, 2:00)
MYSTERIES OF JULY A documentary about the subject of deaths in British custody, produced for Britain’s Channel Four and directed by Reece Auguiste (1991). On the same program, Frontlines, a video short by Donyale Nao about the participation of blacks in the gulf war, based on letters they sent home. (Facets Multimedia Center, 9:00)
AS I REMEMBER IT Salem Mekuria’s 1991 film about an African American woman writer at the turn of the century. To be shown on video. (Facets Multimedia Center, 7:00)
