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Chicago Film Archives is a regional film archive dedicated to identifying, collecting, preserving and providing access to films that represent the Midwest. Our purpose is to serve institutions and filmmakers of this region and elsewhere by establishing a repository for institutional and private film collections; serve a variety of cultural, academic and artistic communities by making the films available locally, nationally, and internationally for exhibition, research, and production; and serve our culture by restoring and preserving films that are rare or not in existence elsewhere.
Latest News
We are sad to have to once again announce the death of another Midwest filmmaker and cinematographer – Frank Koza. Frank had a long history of shooting news, first based out of the east coast and then Chicago. Read More