This year's Chaz and Roger Ebert Symposium will address the theme of "Documentary, Violence, and the Media." The program on Wednesday, April 19, includes:
Keynote Speaker: Amir George, Artistic Director, Kartemquin Films, Chicago
"To Be Radical"
9:30–10:45 a.m.
Join us in person or register to join via Zoom.
Roundtable Discussion #1
"Cinema and Media Interventions into Violence"
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Panelists:
- Rachel Kuo, Assistant Professor of Media & Cinema Studies, UIUC
- Denise Zaccardi, Executive Director and Founder of CTVN, Community TV Network, Chicago
- Melita Garza, Associate Professor and Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism, UIUC
- Moderated by Angela Aguayo, Associate Professor of Media & Cinema Studies, UIUC
Roundtable Discussion #2
"Cinema and Violence in Challenging Times"
1-2:30 p.m.
Panelists include the following Ebertfest 2023 filmmaker guests:
- Edson Oda, director of Nine Days (2020)
- Jason Michael Berman, producer of Nine Days and president of Mandalay Pictures
- Max Libman, teenage founder and director of CU International Film Festival, Champaign-Urbana
- Brenda Robinson, producer of Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (2022)
- Moderated by Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, Assistant Professor of Media & Cinema Studies, UIUC
The Ebert Symposium, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies.
