You are cordially invited to help us celebrate another year of preserving Chicago’s rich history and culture on film!

CFA’s Nancy Watrous and Brian Belak head east to Pittsburgh, PA to attend the Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference.

The Chicago Sinfonietta presents a live score to “Danse Macabre” in this two night event.

CFA’s Brian Belak will speak to director Ali Kazimi about the significance of home movies following this screening at the Chicago International Film Festival.

CFA, Place Lab, and Black Cinema House present the film as part of the Moving Images, Making Cities Film Series

Support your favorite Midwest film archive over chilled & fanciful martinis

Local archivists inspect & project your celluloid home movies. Learn how to care for your films for years to come!

CFA is participating in Chicago Open Archives: Yours to Explore, an event from Chicago Area Archivists (CAA), where local archives, research centers, and cultural institutions in the Chicago area will offer special events open to members of the public on October 6-8, 2016.

CFA’s Executive Director Nancy Watrous delivers a keynote address at this one-day symposium dedicated to preserving national audiovisual heritage, hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

in the third program of our outdoor summer film series with Black Cinema House, CFA presents three films depicting Africa affected by colonialism

as part of an ongoing outdoor summer film series, CFA and Black Cinema House present a program that explores the intricacies of our working lives.

CFA revives a program focusing on African-American female writers in this outdoor screening at the Muffler Shop.

CFA’s annual video remix benefit is back again with an exciting lineup of artist collaborations

South Side Projections presents this program of animated folktales using films from CFA

The Royal Institute of British Architects selects two CFA films to display in ongoing exhibition