May 10 fundraiser for ‘ChiTown’ basketball doc

By Mike Morgan May 08, 2012
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A FUNDRAISER FOR CHITOWN, a documentary-in-progress from New York-based reality TV show director/producer Nick Budabin (Cake Boss, Kathy Griffin), who started shooting when he spent time here in 2011 producing “Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes,” will b
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White House snubbed online winning docmakers

by Ed M. Koziarski Apr 18, 2012
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Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano’s video My Asian Americana was passed over for a slot in the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Champions of Change program April 5, despite winning the online vote in the IAAPI’s
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Doc about troubled arts center plays Cultural Center

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 09, 2012
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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, a documentary by producer/director Kelly Luchtman and coproducer, DP and editor Thomas C. Gaun
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April 29 Ebert Fest screens Bhargava’s first feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 30, 2012
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14TH ANNUAL EBERT FEST Ebert Fest in Champaign April 29 will feature Prashant Bhargava’s Patang (
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Wexler wraps ‘Roundabout American’ comedy feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 22, 2012
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WRITER/DIRECTOR BORIS WEXLER of Escape Films has wrapped postproduction on the feature comedy Roundabout American starring French actor Edouard Giard as a young French chef who opens an escort service out of a Chicago
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3 talented female filmmakers topline new WIF series

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 14, 2012
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WOMEN IN FILM CHICAGO’S new screening series, “Emerging Talent: Females in Focus,” launches March 19 with films by Mary Kay Cook, Grace McPhillips and Anna Jung. A cocktail reception follows
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Digital media grants available to indie producers

By Mike Morgan Feb 27, 2012
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Content aimed at advancing social change has a good chance of winning a Chicago Digital Media Production Fund that’s open to indie video and filmmakers in the Chicago area.  Chicago Filmmakers, the fund’s administrator, will host a March 6 informational session with knowledgeable staff members answering questions about the fund, and to explain guidelines, the application&nb
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Party launches Evanston’s Talking Pictures Fest

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 23, 2012
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A PRE-FEST PARTY Feb. 23 launches Percolator Films’ 4th annual Talking Pictures Festival from 7-10 p.m. at the Hilton Orrington Hotel’s Indigo Lounge, 1710 Orrington Avenue in Evanston.  Talking Pictures Festival runs March 8-11.
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Videographer produced inspirational doc about fighter

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 09, 2012
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A FORMER GOLDEN GLOVES middleweight boxing champion is the subject of “Fearless Fernando Hernandez: A Fighter’s Journey,” a 30-minute tragedy-to-triumph documentary made in its entirety, music included, by still/video photographer
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Alex Beh makes his feature debut with “Warren”

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 31, 2012
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L.A. BASED ORIAN WILLIAMS, who produced the Joy Division biopic Control, has signed on to produce Winnetka native actor/director Alex Beh’s feature directorial debut
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Nearing’s period drama shooting now through June

by Ed M. Koziarkski Jan 23, 2012
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THE KIDNAPPING OF A TYCOON set during the tumultuous 1918 Chicago race riots is the subject of Hogtown, being produced by Daniel Nearing’s
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Corn Bred sets debut with $35,000 horror comedy

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 17, 2012
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Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos launched their production company Corn Bred Films last March “with the goal of establishing a film studio in the Midwest dedicated to finding and encouraging Midwestern talent,” Anderson says. The husband-wife writing/producing partners planned
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