The Chaz and Roger Ebert Symposium, which began in 2018 and is named in part for the late film critic Roger Ebert, is presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies at the University of Illinois College of Media.
Amir George is an award-winning filmmaker and has served as a programmer at True/False Film Fest and Chicago International Film Festival. As an artist, George creates spiritual stories, juxtaposing sound and image into an experience of non-linear perception. George’s films have screened at institutions and film festivals including Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Anthology Film Archives, Glasgow School of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, and Camden International Film Festival, among others.
Roger Ebert, who died in 2013, was an Urbana native, UIUC journalism alumnus, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, and founder of RogerEbert.com. His namesake film festival, known as Ebertfest, is held annually in April at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, and is co-sponsored by Chaz Ebert and the College of Media.
