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SOLD OUT! The Area Film Screening + Q&A with Tonika Lewis Johnson

September 22, 2018, 7:45 to 9:45 p.m. CT

This is a past event

Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60601

Hosted by: Metropolitan Planning Council

Than you for your interest in this event. it is currently sold out!

The Area, the latest documentary feature from Scrappers Film Group, is premiering in Chicago with a two-week run at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This searing documentary chronicles the five-year odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where more than 400 African-American families are being displaced by a multi-billion-dollar freight company. The film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne, who vows to be “the last house standing,” and the Row Row Boys, teen friends who must start a new lives across gang lines.

Join MPC for an after-screening conversation with photographer & Englewood activist Tonika Lewis Johnson, Deborah Payne, and the film's director David Schalliol, moderated by MPC's very own Gabriel Charles Tyler.

Film Trailer

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