Friday 8/2 – Thursday 8/8
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3 SATURDAY Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video co-coordinator Sergio Mims and a friend were talking about the summer movie season and realized there were only two major black releases–Like Mike and Juwanna Mann. “She said, ‘Is this all we’re going to get?’ So many independent black films are made, but they hardly get any kind of release or distribution,” says Mims. “But films like Tadpole are made for $200,000 and picked up by Miramax for five million–and I’ve seen black independent films way better than Tadpole.” Today filmmakers Alison Lonesome, Cheryl Matlock, Neema Barnette, and Kirby Ashley will sit on a free Black Harvest panel called Does Black Cinema Get Respect?, which Mims will moderate. It starts at 3
at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. The festival runs through August 15; for a complete schedule call 312-846-2800 or visit www.siskelfilmcenter.org.
6 TUESDAY Some amateur investors who lost their shirts over the past few years–er, weeks–might have fared better if they’d practiced basic asset allocation, which Morgan Stanley financial adviser Josh Quail describes as “diversifying across bonds, small capital stocks, large capital stocks, mid capital stocks, and international stocks–an area that has done well over the past 18 months.” Quail will explain further at a free lecture tonight at 7:30 at Barbara’s Bookstore, 1100 Lake in Oak Park (708-848-9140).
