Some good advise and advocacy would be nice. It just seems to me Spike Lee has the very same problem independent filmmakers can identify with. Perhaps Spike Lee should be making the rounds at international film festivals. It would be the place for people to wade into the film's content in a venue where controversy is welcome.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel does not ahve to worry about Chicago's reputation, economy or tourism from "Chiraq" when the public is more scared of the reality of it's police department.

Chiraq may have a movie to its name, but, it doesn't have a theater to play it. (click here)

"Chiraq" is a film, but, this is Chicago.

December 8, 2015
By Mitch Smith

Chicago — The Chicago police, (click here) facing almost daily protests and a newly announced Justice Department investigation, released footage Monday night showing a 38-year-old black man being shocked by a Taser and dragged down a hallway by officers in 2012...

The man, Philip Coleman, later died at a hospital. A county medical examiner noted trauma on Mr. Coleman’s body, but said his death had been caused by an allergic reaction to a medication given at the hospital. A lawyer for the Coleman family said he believed the repeated shocks contributed to Mr. Coleman’s death.

The officers’ treatment of Mr. Coleman, a college graduate whose family said he was having mental health problems, received a withering rebuke from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose handling of other police use-of-force cases has prompted calls for his resignation, and who has announced a series of policy changes and personnel moves in recent days as pressure mounted....