BPP 10 Point Film Series

#4. We Want Decent Housing, Fit for the Shelter of Human Beings.

Arts Bank Cinema is proud to present the BPP Ten Point Program Film Series, hosted the first Sunday of each month in partnership with members of the IL Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Each month’s program will use cinema and dialogue to explore one point of the Black Panther Party’s ten point platform. Facilitated community discussions centering activism, resistance, and the ongoing struggle will be held following the films. For April, we explore point four, “We Want Decent Housing, Fit for the Shelter of Human Beings.” through the Chicago film THE AREA.

THE AREA is the five-year odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where more than 400 African-American families are displaced by a multi-billion-dollar railroad corporation. The film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne and the “Row-Row Boys” a group of teen friends who must start a new life across gang lines.

The story is a visceral representation of corporate abuse, government overreach, and the vulnerability of homeowners, but the battle Deborah wages against the railroad also reveals the strength of a community.

This event is free and open to the public, RSVP here. RSVP does not guarantee admission. Read below for our RSVP policy.

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All film screenings are free. RSVPs through Eventbrite open approximately two weeks before a screening. While seats are not guaranteed, RSVPing through Eventbrite will grant primary access to the screening room when doors open 30 minutes before a screening.

If Eventbrite lists the screening as “sold out,” you can join the online waitlist. If online ticketholders cancel their order, you will be given the option to be assigned an RSVP. (You must claim the RSVP within 24 hours to be moved from the waitlist.)

Doors open 30 minutes before the screening starts. Each person in your party must arrive to the screening early to take advantage of their RSVP. Seats cannot be saved.

Any walk up attendees who do not have an RSVP will be placed on an onsite waitlist. If seats remain at five minutes before showtime, waitlisted attendees will be let in, in the order they arrived. The onsite waitlist is first-come, first-serve.