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Mark your calendars

November 7-9

The 2008 Chicago
Filipino American Film Festival

 

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participate

Click here to learn
how you can volunteer
for the Festival - and
get in for free
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Tickets/Venue

 

Ticket Purchases

Theater Location & Directions

Local Accommodations

 

 

 

 

TICKET PURCHASES

Pre-purchase your tickets. Click on the title for more information about the scheduled screening. Your pre-purchased tickets will be waiting for you at the Box Office.

 

And remember: students and seniors are eligible for free day passes.

 

 

 

Friday

6:30

Opening Reception

Free


8:00

Feature: Santa Mesa

$10


10:30

Music Video Awards

With live performance by Bagwis and Paolo Escobar & the Prescription

$10


Day

Friday All-Day Pass

$10



Saturday

1:00

Documentary: That Asian Thing

$10


3:30

Feature: Santa Mesa

$10


6:00

Feature: Float

$10


8:30

Feature: Brown Soup Thing

$10


Day

Saturday All-Day Pass

$20



Sunday

1:00

Feature: Dolphy's 1954 classic Jack and Jill

$10


4:00

Short Film Program

$10


7:00

Documentary: Neo Lounge (2008 CineManila Award)

$10


Day

Sunday All-Day Pass

$20



 

 

 

 

 

  

THEATER LOCATION & DIRECTION

The 2008 Festival will be presented at the historic Portage Theater, located on the northwest side of Chicago. Designed by architect Henry Newhouse, the theatre opened on December 11, 1920 with 1,938 seats as part of the Ascher Brothers theatre chain. Pre-dating the advent of America's movie palaces, the Portage Theater's megaphone-shaped auditorium features a formal beaux-arts opera house design. After a recent five-year period of darkness, the theater has reopened to its original shape, and has been refurbished and restored to its 1920s splendor. It's now the new home for The Silent Film Society of Chicago.

 

Portage Theater

4050 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Chicago, IL 60641

 

Parking

Parking is available in the city-run public parking lot at Cuyler & Laporte, one-half blocks west of the theater.

 

Maps and Driving Directions

The Portage Theatre is located a few doors north of the 6-corner intersection of Cicero Ave, Irving Park Rd and Milwaukee Ave.

 

From Downtown and South

Take the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/94) Westbound to Exit 44B, Pulaski Rd to IL 19 Irving Park Rd. At the second light, turn left onto Irving Park Rd. After approximately one mile, turn right onto Milwaukee Avenue, and the theater will be on your left.

 

From North and West Suburbs

Take the Kennedy Expressway (I-90) or Edens Expressway (I-94) Eastbound to Exit 44A, Keeler Ave to IL 19 Irving Park Rd. At the first light, turn right onto Keeler Ave, then right again onto Irving Park Rd. After approximately one mile, turn right onto Milwaukee Avenue, and the theater will be on your left.

 

You can also obtain customized directions from your specific starting point by clicking on the GoogleMap "Get Directions To Here" link below.

 

 


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Public Transportation

Three major bus lines are only steps away; and the Blue Line's Irving Park Road stop is just down the street. For the best public transportation itinerary, we invite you to use the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) online trip planner.

 

Using the Blue Line or Metro Union Pacific Northwest Train

Take the CTA Blue Line or Metra Union Pacific Northwest (Harvard/McHenry) to Irving Park Road station. Take the Westbound #80-Irving Park or #X80-Irving Park Express bus (toward Harlem or Cumberland) approximately one mile to Cicero and Milwaukee Avenues. Walk one-half block north on Milwaukee Avenue to the theater.

 

Take the Metra Milwaukee District North (Fox Lake) to Mayfair or Grayland. From Mayfair, walk one block west to Cicero Ave, and take the Southbound 54-Cicero (toward 24th Place), X54-Cicero Express (toward Midway Airport/Orange Line) or 54A-North Cicero/Skokie (toward Irving Park/Blue Line) bus one-half mile south to Irving Park Road and Milwaukee Avenue. Walk one-half block north on Milwakee Avenue to the theater.

 

LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS

Please check back shortly for updates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

contact

General: [email protected]

Volunteer: [email protected]

Program: [email protected]

 

 

mailing address

CFAFF

c/o The Filipino American Network

516 N. Ogden #151

Chicago, IL 60622

 

 

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