Third Coasters, your attention, please. Tonight the largest and longest-running women's film festival in the country kicks off its 24th year of Women in the Director's Chair with an evening featuring everyone's favorite artiste, Ms. Miranda July, introduced by Roger Ebert.
This reception and screening honors the prolific work of special festival guest, multi-media artist Miranda July. The program, curated especially for WIDC, includes video, sound, and a live reading. Spend an evening with this celebrated artist, fresh from her triumph at Sundance, and support progressive film and video.
March 16, 2005, 6:00 pm
The Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
The festival itself runs through March 20 at the Chicago Cultural Center, and admission is the cinetrix's favorite price: FREE.
Be sure to catch Nina Davenport's Parallel Lines, one of the best documentaries I've seen in ages, on Friday March 18, at 8 p.m., as well as Jan Krawitz's Big Enough, which the cinetrix saw just last month. The entire schedule is here (with the excellent notation "Homegirl!" to indicate work by a Chicago artist), and the wrap party is March 20 at Danny's. What more could you want?
