Though digital may have killed celluloid, the Chicago Underground Film Festival proves that it's a boon to underground cinema.
by Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
Usama Alshaibi of the Chicago Underground Film Festival and Carlos Jiménez Flores of the Chicago Latino Film Festival discuss depictions of race and ethnicity in popular media. La Ultima Pelicula, which screens Saturday at the 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, translates as "The Last Film," an ironic reference to the death of celluloid (early this year Paramount became the first studio to announce that it would stop distributing its product in 35-millimeter).…[ Read more ]