DayLong Film Festival is for discovery, connection, and community. This inaugural, one-day event celebrates Chicago’s history from the lens of Black queer communities. In addition to screenings, we’ll have workshops, vendors, talkbacks and more to mark the day. This community event is for all ages and seeks to create space for those integral to Chicago. We plan to make this a yearly festival with alternating themes including education, sports, and housing.
Past Events
Movie Night at Dorothy: This past June, DayLong hosted a double screening at Dorothy Downstairs in West Town.
Queenie, by cai thomas, follows a seventy-three-years-young Black lesbian who has called the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn home since 1988, but she is ready to move to a building that better meets her mobility, safety, and social needs as an aging elder. She applies to Stonewall Residences, New York City’s first affordable housing for LGBT elders, hopeful that she’ll be able to live out her final days in a new place she can call home.
The Funnel by Charlene Caruthers follows Trina, a young Black poet living on the South Side of Chicago, as she navigates an escalating housing crisis with her mother. After falling into an intimate recollection of her family’s history, she awakes in a world with people, sounds, and possibilities she’s never known. An encounter with a familiar spirit opens her eyes and heart to a new gift.
DayLong Film Festival is for discovery, connection, and community. This inaugural, one-day event celebrates Chicago’s history from the lens of Black queer communities. In addition to screenings, we’ll have workshops, vendors, talkbacks and more to mark the day. This community event is for all ages and seeks to create space for those integral to Chicago. We plan to make this a yearly festival with alternating themes including education, sports, and housing.
Past Events
Movie Night at Dorothy: This past June, DayLong hosted a double screening at Dorothy Downstairs in West Town.
Queenie, by cai thomas, follows a seventy-three-years-young Black lesbian who has called the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn home since 1988, but she is ready to move to a building that better meets her mobility, safety, and social needs as an aging elder. She applies to Stonewall Residences, New York City’s first affordable housing for LGBT elders, hopeful that she’ll be able to live out her final days in a new place she can call home.
The Funnel by Charlene Caruthers follows Trina, a young Black poet living on the South Side of Chicago, as she navigates an escalating housing crisis with her mother. After falling into an intimate recollection of her family’s history, she awakes in a world with people, sounds, and possibilities she’s never known. An encounter with a familiar spirit opens her eyes and heart to a new gift.