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Chicago International Social Change Film Festival

5:00pm CDT

Red Carpet Arrivals Showplace Icon Theater

6:00pm CDT

Opening Night Speaker, Gordon Quinn, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Kartemquin Films Showplace Icon Theater

6:15pm CDT

SPECIAL SNEAK PEAK: The Homestretch + Q&A Panel + CISCFF ACTION Showplace Icon Theater

7:15pm CDT

OPENING NIGHT FILM: The Microlending Film Project + Q&A PANEL + CISCFF ACTION Showplace Icon Theater

10:00am CDT

Marriage Equality: Is the Time Now or Never? The Activist Within (62 min) Showplace Icon Theater Shattering Stereotypes & Social Change: Found (3min), I Am The Standard (6min), The Bully Trap (4min), Kids' Games (7min), American Imam (20min), Love, Sex and Disability (50min) Showplace Icon Theater FESTIVAL REGISTRATION CENTER Showplace Icon Theater

11:15am CDT

"Waiting for a Movement: Apathy & the US Educational System": Maestras (30 min) and The Mountain Between Us (12 min) + Q&A/Panel Discussion Showplace Icon Theater

12:30pm CDT

Money Over Rights? The International Fight for Quality Working Conditions: The Sweatshop (12 min), Carriere (13min), A Little Revolution (59min) Showplace Icon Theater Healthcare in America: Gone Too Far or Not Far Enough? The Healthcare Movie (86min) + Q&A + Panel Discussion Showplace Icon Theater

2:45pm CDT

Featured Speaker: DAVID E. TOLCHINSKY, CHAIRMAN OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY'S DEPARTMENT OF RADIO-TV-FILM Showplace Icon Theater

3:00pm CDT

Reaching for Peace: Perspectives on the Middle East: Admissions (21min) and The People and the Olive (70min) Showplace Icon Theater Redefining the Average American Family: UNFIT: Ward vs. Ward (74min) and Project Hopeful (13 min) Showplace Icon Theater

5:30pm CDT

When Sexual Orientation & Religion Collide: Love Free or Die (82min) Showplace Icon Theater The Sustainable Community Centered Business Model: Bartertown: A Vegan Manifesto (6 min), Nothing Like Chocolate (67 min), Child 31 (32 min) Showplace Icon Theater

7:15pm CDT

Kartemquin Presents: Special Sneak Peek of Unbroken Glass (10min) and Launch of InterruptViolence.com Showplace Icon Theater

8:00pm CDT

Sex Addicts: How the Culture of Sex Breeds Abuse & a Market for Trafficking: The Price of Sex (73min), What I Have Been Through Is Not Who I Am (22min) Showplace Icon Theater Water, Health & Social Change: The Story Of Cholera (4 min), Ru: Water Is Life (19 min), Carbon For Water (22 min), Watershed (54 min) Showplace Icon Theater

10:00am CDT

"Reading the Fine Print: The Side Effects of War ": Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives (68 min), You Bring Something Back (8 min), Dear Brother (5 min) Showplace Icon Theater How Communities Can Bring Justice to the Criminal Justice System: American Colter (23 min), Love, Dad (20 min), A Read On Inside Books (9 minutes), Close Ties (26 minutes) Showplace Icon Theater FESTIVAL REGISTRATION CENTER Showplace Icon Theater

12:30pm CDT

Women's Empowerment & Social Change: Graceland Girls (29 min), It's A Girl Thing (59 min), The Director (1 min) Showplace Icon Theater Unions: Change Agents or Defenders of the Status Quo?: Brothers On the Line (80 minutes) Showplace Icon Theater

2:45pm CDT

Locked Closets: How Government, Culture & Status Affect Coming Out: IL Love Marriage (3 min), Shabbat Dinner (15 min), Gvarim Bilti Nirim (68 min) Showplace Icon Theater Youth & Social Change: Delta 180 (28 min), Art Against Abuse (5 min), Deconstructing Black Males... (5 min), Mainstream Media...(5 min), Stories of TRUST (42 min) Showplace Icon Theater

5:00pm CDT

The Risk & Rewards of Industrialization: Frente Al Mar (20 min), After The Factory (45 min) Showplace Icon Theater The Key to Community Renewal: Lending Practices?: Bonsai People (67 min) Showplace Icon Theater

6:45pm CDT

Dying for Access to Healthcare & Dying to Be Free: Refugees & Immigration: Born In Goma (48 min), Paper Planes (15 min), Ni Una Mas (17 min) Showplace Icon Theater

7:15pm CDT

The Power of One: How Ordinary People Change the World: Opening Our Eyes (61 min), Kindess Boomerang (6 minutes), Blindspot (27 min) Showplace Icon Theater