“HOGTOWN is the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date.”
THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Daniel Nearing’s black-and-white “periodless piece” about the disappearance of a theatre mogul and the months preceding the 1919 Chicago race riots is wholly original and profoundly beautiful. The leads Herman Wilkins and Diandra Lyle offer luminous, career-making performances. I play Officer Dan Callahan, the personification of the institutional racism Black detective DeAndre Son Carter faces during his investigation. I won’t tell you how it ends, but here’s a hint.
HOGTOWN premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago in 2014. Its European premiere is scheduled for September 11, 2016 at the Festival International Des Films De La Diaspora Africaine in Paris. The trailer, at ArtMattan Films:
HOGTOWN will play from December 1-11 at Columbia University in NYC.