collected voices


2020 Official Selections

Intersect All The Ways We Connect



Official Shorts



Prologue

Humans@Work | Portrait of a Restauranteur

Tap Water

Cowboy Boots

The Artisan

Barbershop: The Makings of the Black Male Identity STRANGE FRUIT

Saturday

Sankofa: A Collective Mythology

When Dinosaurs Came

Statements: A Stand-Up Comedy Short Film | Part 1: Hello

Not The Child I Raised

Test Your Love

Rebel Bells

12 Ingredients Over the Generations



Official Long Form



Lupines Will Abound

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NITA

Bark

Whole

How We See Water

Horror in the Andes T

he Last Run

Demeure

The Healer and the Psychiatrist

You Name It



Collected Voices Film Fest centers around original ethnographic works that explore the intersection of race, age, class, gender, and sexuality through short and feature-length films.

This season, all films are online for free viewing.
We hope you will make a donation to join our Halloween awards night Saturday October 31st at 4pm CST. All donations help to continue the festival and provide awards directly to filmmakers.



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linda tate

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felix Blume

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2019 winners


it's A Short winner: Touch and Go Chess by Paul Restivo
Best Music video: Corduroy Velvet by Emmitt James
Best Emerging Filmmakers: The Peace Exchange in Rwanda by Darren Sanders & Free Spirit Media Pro
Best Editing: Let This be Therapy by Anthony Casanova
Best Directing: A Sisterhood of Signatures by Seven Gunn
Best Feature: Hegel's Angel by Simone Rapisarda



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2020 schedule



October 31st 2020



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The University of Chicago

Studio Movie Grill

Reunion Art Gallery

Community Film Workshop

The Dojo

The Silver Room

The Phantom Gallery

Chicago Art Department

The Comfort Station

Hamburger Marys

Catalyst Ranch

DePaul University

Transistor Chicago

Chicago Filmmakers

The Jane-Addams Hull House

The Nightingale

AMFM Gallery


Collected Voices is supported by community engagement and donations from people just like you!

Community Film Workshop serves as fiscal agent for

Freedom Lover Films/ Collected Voices Film Fest and is a registered 501C3. ​

All contributions are fully tax deductible and receipts are provided upon request.



our story



Started in 2015 by Visual Anthropologist, Ife Olatunji with a grant from Chicago Artists Month, Collected Voices is Chicago's first and only Ethnographic film fest, blending together fiction and documentary media from diverse Chicago filmmakers in academia and art.


In 2016, CV received more great films from Chicago and around the world, about real life everyday experiences. Our festival grew in our second year from 4 venues to 10! We showed more than 40 never before screened films across Chicago, Il.


In 2017 we screened over 30 original films with more than 75% from Chicago filmmakers. More than 50% of our films were women made and from filmmakers of color. Each screening was sold out, including our Awards party at AMFM Gallery filled to capacity, with more than 200 viewers our final night!




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