collected voices


Submission are now open until August 2021!

Collected Voices Film Fest centers around
original ethnographic media that explore the intersection
of race, age, class, gender, and sexuality through documentary and fiction narratives.

This season, all films are online for viewing.

Collected Voices 2021 is looking for the best films made by amateur and professional filmmakers about life in Chicago and abroad. This year Collected Voices theme is Revival! We are looking for stories that make renewal, resurrection, repair, reprise, rest and revival the main themes. Films can be made any year, and any length.

All donations help to continue the festival and provide awards directly to filmmakers.



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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

The Last Run

Demeure

The Healer and the Psychiatrist

You Name It



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Check out our past season and 2020 selections on ItsAShort.com


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2020 winners


Winner Best Fiction:
Strange Fruit, Dir. Shay Riddick

Winner Best Documentary:
You Name It, Dir. Hasan Demirtas

Best Emerging Filmmakers:
12 Ingredients, Dir. Sam Hampton
Barbershop: The Makings of the Black Male Identity,Dir. Maiya Shackelford

Best Student Film:
Whole, Dir. Ryonn Gloster
Nita, Dir. Melissa Pratt

Best Fiction Runner up:
When Dinosaurs Come, *Best Director
Dir. Terrian Williams
Bark *Best Editor
Dir. Laura Coleman

Best Documentary Runner up:
Horror in the Andes *Best Director
Dir. Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
The Last Run, *Best Editing
Dir. Anirban Dutta
The Healer and the Psychiatrist *Best Cinematography
Dir, Mike Poltorak


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Check out some of our past sponsors
and show your support with a donation any time



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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