This week, SLAYING GOLIATH is part of the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center.  See write-up and times below.  Try to make it and spread the word.

SLAYING GOLIATH 
2008, Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, USA, 70 min. 
THE SECOND HALF 
2008, Jeffrey Elmont, USA, 20 min. 
With Kevin Dunigan, Sinqua Walls

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the American Black Film Festival in Los Angeles, this remarkable film follows a Harlem fifth-grade basketball team to the AAU National Championships in Florida. What starts out looking like an inspirational heart-warmer takes a detour into trickier territory as the accompanying parents question the coach’s aggressive tactics, his on-court profanity offends Bible Belt opponents, one player is caught stealing, another quits, and the team suffers loss after loss. The result is not a hatchet-job but an extraordinarily candid and complex depiction of an unsettlingly real situation. Beta SP video. (MR)

Preceded by THE SECOND HALF. A high school janitor and a student with attitude face off on the basketball court in an encounter that will leave them both changed. HD-CAM video. (BS) FF

Friday, August 28, 6:15 pm 
Tuesday, September 1, 6:15 pm

We are very thankful that the Sundance Doc Fund has honored us with a grant.  One step forward, ten thousand more to go. See link below for more info.