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Third Coast Filmless Festival

Event:	Third Coast Filmless Festival
Date:	3.6.10 - 3/6/2010
Details:	The MCA partners with the Third Coast International Audio Festival to present the Filmless Festival. The all-day event presents a variety of storytelling, audio documentaries, and sound in the form of unique audio screenings from some of the most innovative and celebrated radio producers. Highlights include a special presentation of a documentary-in-progress with Joe Richman, a celebration of the launch of the book Reality Radio with Ira Glass and the Kitchen Sisters, and presentations from past winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. The festival begins at 11:30 am and the evening event begins at 8 pm. All performances take place in the MCA Theater and Kanter Meeting Center. Q&As with the producers follow each presentation. This is the seventh event in the second season of Chicago Public Radio Presents. FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Block 1: Intimate Strangers (screening) 11:30 am - MCA Theater Stories of closeness - or the illusion of closeness - between people who barely know each other. Producer Jamie Yuenger is on-hand for a Q&A following the screening. Rhyme and Reason (screening) 12 pm - Kanter Meeting Center Stories that draw strength from the elegance (and clumsiness) of words; the music (and dissonance) of voice; and the rhythms (and ruptures) of life. Producer Lu Olkowski is on-hand for a Q&A following the screening. Block 2: Against the Tide (screening) 1:30 pm - MCA Theater Tales of cultural curiosities, unconventional conduct, and a few proud exceptions to the rules. Producer Roman Mars is on-hand for a Q&A following the screening. And the Envelope Please... (screening) 2 pm - Kanter Meeting Center Spend an unforgettable hour with the best of the best - past winners of the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Producer Joe Richman is on-hand for a Q&A following the screening. Block 3: Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair: A Work In Progress (presentation) 3:30 pm - MCA Theater In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was convicted of raping a white woman and sentenced to death. McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair - the only one of its kind in the country. A local radio station broadcast a play-by-play of the execution. Today that obscure recording survives as an eerie artifact of a lost chapter of civil rights history. Working Title (screening) 4 pm - Kanter Meeting Center Labor struggles, labors of love, labors of life...and robots in the workplace. Producer Dan Collison is on-hand for a Q&A following the screening. Evening Event: Words on Sound: Celebrating Reality Radio 8 - 9:45 pm - MCA Theater This evening event celebrates the launch of Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, a first-of-its-kind collection of essays written by some of the most accomplished radio producers working today. Re:sound's Gwen Macsai joins Reality Radio contributors Ira Glass (This American Life), Joe Richman (Radio Diaries) and the Kitchen Sisters (Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound) for a unique discussion. The book is available for purchase at the MCA and as part of this event, a book signing follows the screening. All-day festival passes are $30; $24 for Chicago Public Radio members, MCA members, and students. A $250 All-Day Festival PLUS Pass is also available. Tickets to specific blocks of screening are $8/general admission; $6/members and students. The Words on Sound: Celebrating the Launch of Reality Radio evening event is $15/$12. Passes: www.chicagopublicradio.org/events Tickets: www.mcachicago.org; MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010; or at the door
Location:	Museum of Contemporary Art
City:	Chicago
Phone:	312.397.3828
Email:	ebaldwin@mcachicago.org
Website:	http://www.mcachicago.org/media
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