This five-day festival, now in its eighth year, highlights film and video shorts and features by women, including documentaries, animation, narrative, and experimental works. It starts Wednesday, March 8, and runs through Sunday, March 12, at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont. Films and videos are grouped under such program headings as “Take the First Step,” “Go Out of Bounds,” and “Lie Between the Hammer and the Anvil.” Festival tickets are $5 per program for the general public, $4 for members of Women in the Director’s Chair, Chicago Filmmakers, or the Center For New Television; students; and senior citizens. For further information call 281-4988.
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
TRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA–STUDIO D Four shorts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada and the 15th anniversary of Studio D, a department of the board devoted to films by and about Canadian women: Cynthia Scott’s impressionistic Flamenco at 5:15 (1983); Carol Geddes’s Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (1986), which focuses on four native women in different parts of Canada, Suzanne Gervais’ animated Still Point (1983); and Terri Nash’s documentary about Helen Caldicott and her antinuclear arguments, If You Love This Planet. (6:00)
