The Chicago Park District’s Chicago Onscreen Local Film Showcase will return August 30 to September 25 for an eighth year of local film screenings in nine local parks across the city, and a virtual film festival, continuing the Chicago Park District’s commitment to providing free in-person and virtual film programming as the city continues to recover and reopen. Six outdoor screenings of 2021’s sixteen official selections and a three-week online film festival at www.chicagoonscreen.com will be joined by three screenings from familiar Chicago film organizations – the Chicago Film Society, Collected Voices Film Festival, and Full Spectrum Features. Chicago Onscreen’s 2021 sixteen Official Selections highlight the filmmaker’s eye for possibility as we enter into a new world full of potential. Selected from more than 60 submissions from around the city, 2020’s Official Selections come from two dozen filmmakers living and working in Chicago. Through these local film screenings in local parks, Chicagoans get the exciting opportunity to see their city, their neighborhood and their lives on screen – and to experience the many sides, sites and stories of Chicago in ways only Chicagoans could tell them.