The Independent Film Alliance Chicago (IFA) is starting the year off by holding an intimate, in-person conversation and Q&A with Oscar-winning filmmaker, Chicago native Matthew A. Cherry. In Focus With
Macy’s on State Street will celebrate Black History Month with a screening of the Academy Award-winning short film Hair Love followed by a thoughtful discussion with the film’s writer and
FACETS 40th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), as the first Academy-qualifying children’s film festival in the world, announced the recipients of its Special and Jury Prizes. Throughout the 40-year history
FACETS 40th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), the first Academy Award qualifying international children’s film festival in the world, opens this Friday, Nov. 3 and runs through Sunday, Nov.
Max has unveiled the first trailer for Young Love, an animated series spinoff of Academy Award Winner and native Chicagoan, Matthew A. Cherry‘s Oscar-winning short film, Hair Love. The 12-episode
HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of the all-new, 2D animated series, Young Love, based on the characters introduced in the Academy Award®-winning short film, Hair Love from Oscar® winner and Chicago born
With support from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and in partnership with Production Assistance Unlimited, Filmscape Chicago announces their first Workforce Training program for production assistants. This
A little boy puts the finishing touches on his snowman, before the dog playfully pulls its arm off in a moment of shock and deadpan comedy in this Greenies campaign.
America showed the world one of the things that it does best during the 92nd annual Academy Awards on Sunday night. Celebrating film with an internationally-televised, star-studded presentation, the country
Aside from Macy and “Roseanne’s” Laurie Metcalf, Chicago connections went ignored: nothing for “The Chi,” “Empire,” and Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” series Frank Gallagher is the worst father on TV,
For the second year, Industry Days Oct. 20-23 during the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival brings together “an auspicious group of 38 top executives, financiers, and filmmakers from New York
TEATRO VISTA, Chicago’s premier Equity Latino theater company, announces that founder and longtime artistic director Edward Torres will be stepping aside in spring 2013 to accommodate his growing
