By hosting screenings, discussions and other social events, the group is building community while amplifying art by filmmakers across the diaspora.

It’s a typical Monday in Chicago Immigration Court, and filmmakers Fatima Omar and Ian Resnick look on as immigrants seeking asylum or residency clutch their documents and exchange worried looks.

Whitney Bradshaw created Outcry as a place for women to stop being silent and start getting real. A new documentary looks at how that works.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time in America, Schwinn and bicycles were synonymous, and Chicago was the center of the two-wheeled, pedal-powered ...

Chicago-born NBA veteran Robert Covington joins us to discuss his new documentary, “Allergic to Failure,” detailing how injury, going undrafted and his HBCU experience shaped his journey and purpose ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Documentaries teach us about the people, places, and social issues we may otherwise never come face-to-face with. And right now, the Gene Siskel Film Center is celebrating the art of ...

A local man trying to learn more about his family's heritage has turned the experience into a documentary.

A Chicago filmmaker decided to create a classroom in Africa, where he shares his knowledge and insight with wildlife conservationists in Rwanda and Uganda. The images they've captured are wonderful; ...

Though none of the films at the Architecture and Design Film Festival, taking place at the Chicago Cultural Center and the ...