AfterImage Film Festival Opening Night Party and Screening

Celebrate Opening Night of the third annual AfterImage Film Festival at the Charlestowne 18 Cinema! Starting at 6:00pm, guests will be treated to an open bar and a selection of small plates. A screening of the Opening Night film "A Compassionate Spy" will be presented at 7:30pm, following the party. Also in attendance will be Oscar-winning filmmaker and director of "A Compassionate Spy," Steve James, to participate in a post-screening Q&A. All tickets $45. More information at afterimagefilmfestival.com About the Film A tale of espionage, romance, and profound moral questions, A Compassionate Spy follows the remarkable story of Theodore Hall, a University of Chicago graduate who was plucked at the young age of 19 to work on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. But soon after he joined the group, he passed crucial military secrets to Soviet intelligence. Oscar- nominated Chicago filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams and Abacus: Small Enough to Jail) has crafted a deeply humanist documentary, combining polished reenactments of Theodore Hall’s life in the 1940s and ‘50s and intimate interviews with his longtime partner Joan Hall, who fled with him to England to evade the FBI. The film tells their fascinating lifelong story of love, intrigue, and the lengths to which some people will go to try to save the world. About Steve James Steve James began his career with Chicago-based Kartemquin Films in 1987 with the start of production of Hoop Dreams, for which he served as director, producer, and co-editor. He has since then become one of the most acclaimed documentary makers of his generation, with noted works being Stevie, The New Americans, The War Tapes, At the Death House Door, The Interrupters, Life Itself, and most recently the 2018 Academy Award®-nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.