The '63 Boycott film and website aim to re-unite participants of Chicago's biggest ever civil rights march. Visit the companion website to identify yourself or others who took part.

82 year-old Peter Anton has spent decades obsessively chronicling his life story in a massive, illustrated autobiography titled “Almost There,” and nothing – not poverty, obscurity, isolation or crippling disabilities – will stop him from seeing it published. What conflicts arise when filmmakers Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden befriend this “outsider artist” and help him get his work shown publicly for the first time is the dramatic center of the film.

Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi (Nice Bombs) shares his own story of experiencing racism in post-9/11 America. Introducing us to other people living as Arabs in the U.S., the film sparks a frank conversation about identity and perception, and argues for giving people "the space to be complicated."

With equal parts naivete and requisite chutzpah, filmmaker Judith Helfand sets out on a quest to see if America’s disaster preparedness industry could be used to tackle what might be the deadliest man-made disaster of all – extreme poverty. With Chicago’s 1995 heat disaster at its dramatic core -- when 739 Chicago residents, most of them poor, elderly and African American, died over the course of one hot July week -- Cooked asks questions about the politics of disaster every city will have to answer: disaster preparedness for some or community resilience for all?

In the Game is a Kartemquin documentary film that follows the ups and downs of an inner city girls’ soccer team to reveal the very real obstacles that low-income students confront in their quest for higher education. For two years, filming has been ongoing at Kelly High School on Chicago’s south side. Set in a primarily Hispanic neighborhood, Kelly is an inner city public school struggling to provide the basics for their students, many of whom do not make it to college, either because they cannot compete academically or because their families do not have the financial resources to send them to college.

Based on his memoir of the same name, Life Itself recounts the surprising and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert – a story that’s by turns personal, wistful, funny, painful, and transcendent.

Inspired by Mormon educational films starring her mother during the 1960s, Xan Aranda (Andrew Bird: Fever Year), explores the stories that shaped generations of her ancestors - the pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. As the tales and tenets of their controversially clean-cut community are uncovered, Xan tests the seemingly unshakeable cornerstones of her family's beliefs, and re-examines her own story of leaving the faith sixteen years ago.

Director Joanna Rudnick follows former fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who after 15 years of working for clients such as Yves Saint Laurent, Elle, and Harpers Bazaar, grew tired of seeing the same ideal of beauty “spit up at us constantly.”

To be homeless and in high school is a challenge that no young person should have to face. Yet each year, over 1.6 million young people find themselves homeless, many without parental support. In Chicago, there are almost 17,000 homeless students registered in the public school system. The majority of them are adolescents fighting to make it through the final years of high school. The Homestretch is their story.

Unbroken Glass is a Kartemquin documentary about filmmaker Dinesh Sabu's journey to understand his parents, who died 20 years ago when he was six years old. Traveling to India, Lousiana, California, and New Mexico, Dinesh pieces together the story of his mother's schizophrenia and how his family dealt with it in an age and culture where mental illness was often misunderstood, scorned and taboo.