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Chicago Film Festival: ‘Punch 9 For Harold Washington’ documentary about Chicago’s first Black mayor set for world premiere

October 13, 2021
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Chicago Film Festival: ‘Punch 9 For Harold Washington’ documentary about Chicago’s first Black mayor set for world premiere
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CHICAGO (WLS) — A new documentary about Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, is set to make its world premiere at the Chicago Film Festival Thursday night.

“Punch 9 For Harold Washington” director and producer Joe Winston, a Chicago native, spoke about the man who inspired former President Barack Obama to first come to city.

“Harold Washington is a titanic figure in Chicago, especially in the Black community. He really changed the city forever,” Winston said. “He’s a fantastic character for a movie. He’s so brilliant and exciting and his story plays like a political thriller.”

Winston said young people who told their stories about Washington were changed by those “intense” events, but recall them “like they happened yesterday.”

“People like him and Dr. King, they’re in danger of becoming almost Santa Claus figures: controversial in life and revered in death,” Winston said. “But the battles, what he fought for, is still important and these battles are not fully resolved at all.”

Winston said he hopes young Black and Brown viewers who see the film “get a sense of what’s possible” when learning about what Washington managed to achieve over overwhelming odds. He added that modern politicians don’t compare to Washington.

“There’s really nobody like him anymore. The way that Harold spoke, this combination of brass knuckle populism and humor and fierce, ferocious intelligence,” Winston said. “He’s truly remarkable. If we could bottle him up and dispense more of him, I’d love to be able to do that.”

“Punch 9 For Harold Washington” will play at the AMC River East Thursday night and next Tuesday. It’s also streaming starting Friday through the end of the festival.

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