IN CINEMA

16th Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
Thursday, September 26th at 7PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission/ $7 Reduced Price 

Presented with the Black Panther Party Commemoration Committee

Shaka King, 2021, 126 min.

FBI informant William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). A career thief, O’Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrades and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons). Hampton’s political prowess grows just as he’s falling in love with fellow revolutionary Deborah Johnson (Dominique Fishback). Meanwhile, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul. Will he align with the forces of good? Or subdue Hampton and The Panthers by any means, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen) commands?

Preceded by short film, Panther Street Naming.

Post-screening Q&A with Black Panther Cub, Fred Hampton Jr., and A survivor from the Illinois Chapter shoot-in!