Thanks to one of our MovieClubbers for picking October's film:Chicago Heights (2009) by Daniel Nearing

Sit back, pop your corn, and channel your inner Ebert! Watch on your own time, then join a Zoom meet up moderated by IFA’s very own Director of Strategic Initiatives, Betsy Steinberg. This film is available on Prime Video. We're excited to have Writer and Director of this film, Daniel Nearing, join us! (Members only.) Discussion: 10.14.20 at 6 p.m.

About Daniel Nearing: Daniel Nearing's work as a writer-director includes CHICAGO HEIGHTS, named to Roger Ebert's last list of Best Art Films, and HOGTOWN, a New York Times Critics' Pick called "the most original film made about Chicago in Chicago to date" by the Chicago Sun-Times. While serving as the inaugural Filmmaker in Residence for the City of Chicago, he began his current production of SISTER CARRIE, a black and white period love story set in Chicago, Montreal and Paris. Nearing is a fellow of MacDowell and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.