This year's edition of the Ebert Symposium, entitled, "Documentary, Violence and the Media," will precede Ebertfest at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this month. The 2023 Symposium is dedicated to the memory of Roger and Chaz Ebert's beloved grandson, Joseph London Smith, who tragically became the unintended victim of gun violence in Atlanta, Georgia, last August. The occasion of this year's Symposium will be used to interrogate the power of cinema to mediate violence, while exploring how cinema intervenes in this conversation. It will kick off at 7:30pm on Tuesday, April 18th, with a screening of William Greaves' 1968 classic, "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One," introduced by Amir George, the Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films in Chicago. The following morning at 9:30am on Wednesday, April 19th, which also happens to be the opening night of Ebertfest 2023, Amir George will provide the Keynote address, entitled, "To Be Radical...
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