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No Malice Film Contest Launches Free Professional Lecture Series with Top Filmmakers and Storytellers News provided by Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Creators of the No Malice Film Contest for young filmmakers in Illinois between the ages of 11 and 21 this Saturday will launch a free series of talks with professional filmmakers and storytellers to share advice and inspire their creativity. Students will compete in the contest as individuals or in groups in three age brackets: 11–14, 15–18, and 19–21. Entries are due by Friday, April 30. Th...

Audio for the story. Grace Hou is the secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services.   She explained that she and Deputy Governor Sol Flores came up with the idea for the grant during a conversation. Both have done community-based work and have experienced racial healing activities.    Then came the events of the past year. “And so, you know, we're in the middle of the pandemic, and we continue to be in the summer. And then the images and the reports of the police brutality,” she recalled. “There was so much anguish, and hurt in Illinois, you know, protests, civil unrest.”...