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Mob Rep & lululemon Present: THE MOVIES
lululemon Chicago is teaming up with local curator and event production collective the Mob Rep to create an immersive film experience celebrating Chicago's diverse filmmakers.
Based on the award-winning set design from our featured director Judy K. Suh's Roberta's Living Room, viewers will enter the world of the main character to engage in the film, followed by the filmmaker in a panel discussion led by lululemon ambassador & filmmaker Karla Huffman Barry.
Join us for two special evenings of screening + discussion + refreshments with our favorite local filmmakers, powered by Pour Souls, Tromba Tequila and Candyality.
NIGHT 1 - DOCUMENTARY
In her signature serious-yet-quirky connect-the-dots style, Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand takes audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster deep into one of our nation’s biggest growth industries - disaster preparedness. Along the way she forges inextricable links between extreme weather, extreme wealth disparity and extreme racism, daring to ask: What if a zip code was just a routing number, and not a life-or-death sentence. We will be joined in discussion by Kartemquin Films board member and producer of COOKED, Fenell Doremus.
NIGHT 2 - SHORT
Judy K Suh is a filmmaker and video installation artist from Chicago. Merging backgrounds in filmmaking, fine art, design and advertising, she uses moving images and designs for storytelling and immersive experiences. In Roberta's Living Room, a woman in a remote town where gypsies come and go, receives a call about her husband’s sudden death. During this film, we will literally step into a Magical-Realist world where a woman plants a garden in her living room, counting her days to her most deliberate death.
Terrence Thompson was raised on the south-side of Chicago. At the age of 13, he joined a digital media literacy program called "Digital Youth Network", and through that initiative he was able to begin transforming his hobby of making videos into a career. "Drive Slow" follows a teenager from the South-Side of Chicago attempting to finish his college essays. As he struggles to boil down his complex surroundings in 500 words, his friends' disparate opinions, racist news narratives, and the threat of lingering danger only complicate the process. Based off the pilot script of the same name, "Drive Slow" seeks to challenge certain stigmas surrounding Chicago communities, as well as tell the diverse stories of young people from this great city.
Renee
Demetrius Barry is an independent Film Director and camera operator with 7 years of film experience to his credit. Trained in the world of marketing to create short-run commercials for broadcast and social media marketing, his experience has had him work on virtually every aspect of production from onset assistance, lighting design, sound recording, camera operation, directing and finally post-production editing. He is an aesthetically driven director who’s ambition is to create socially conscious and visually challenging narratives that stand the test of time. Renee is a dark comedy about an elder millennial woman serving as caretaker for her ailing and abusive parents at the expense of living her own life.
When: October 23rd & 24th
Doors open for refreshments at 7PM; programming will start at 7:15PM, and run til 10PM. Please bring a valid photo ID if you plan on consuming complimentary alcoholic beverages.
Where: West Town neighborhood with access to public transportation. Exact location TBA.
To learn more about this event, please reach out to info@mob-rep.com.
