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Chicago’s only major representation at the Slamdance Film Festival will open the 15th annual alternative to Sundance Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah, with a Jan. 27 encore screening.

The film is Yony Leyser’s documentary “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within,” the first posthumous feature-length film about the writer of “Naked Lunch,” “Junky” and “Queer.”

“Slamdance is, as John Waters told me, ?much more “Burroughs” than Sundance,” says 25-year old Chicago director Leyser.

Fletcher Chicago, which started out 21 years ago as a camera sales company, has sold its camera and accessories sales division to Abel Cine Tech of New York and Burbank, one of the country’s biggest camera dealers, effective March 25.

Fletcher’s inventory was shipped the same day to Abel Cine’s New York headquarters.

Abel president Pete Abel said he is thrilled about the sale. “Fletcher and our company have always respected each other, and that was the basis of working together,” a sentiment VP Tom Fletcher echoed.

Wisconsin’s only studio complex is under construction and Fletcher Chicago has announced it will open a branch there.

Third Coast Studios, comprised of two former manufacturing plants located in a Milwaukee suburb, are undergoing renovation at an estimated cost of $5-$6 million and will be completed June 1, says developer and co-owner Darrick Dysland.

Fletcher Chicago plans on opening a camera rental branch in the new complex.

A spot campaign from a Milwaukee agency officially launched Chicago’s first independent digital intermediate service?No Lo Digital Film, located in a lofty art gallery in River West.

Colorist Mike Matusek and engineer Boris Seagraves, formerly with I-Cubed, and producer Joe Flanagan, former owner of Long Cut editorial, are the principals and equal owners.

The name is derived from the restaurants North of the Loop where the three partners met during the first year of planning the new business.

Tom Rovak, S2/Swell’s ace colorist for a dozen years, has been freelancing under the banner of his new company, Highly Defined, Inc., until he opens Chicago’s only independent color room outside of a post house.

A $400,000 da Vinci Resolve? v3.4 digital mastering suite will be the heart of the facility.

The new company probably will be located in 4-5,000-sq. ft. space in a River West building he’s currently negotiating for, Rovak said.

“Most color correction rooms in town are traditional linear rooms.

A “commercial” for the Chicago International Film Festival produced by two DDB creatives will be part of the Festival’s Oct. 5 opening festivities at the Chicago Theatre.

ACDs Larry Ziegelman and Jay Manheimer produced the 60-second pro bono promo that screens before the premiere of “Stranger than Fiction” and throughout the two-week cinema extravaganza.

One of the biggest grip/lighting equipment companies in the film industry has opened its first branch outside of Los Angeles and Las Vegas at Chicago Studio City.

Cinelease has transferred several million dollars worth of equipment from its Burbank facility into 8,000-sq. ft. of space that once housed CSC’s own equipment inventory.

Susan Sarandon received the Chicago International Film Festival’s Career Achievement Award at the fest’s opening night at the Chicago Theater.

Roger Ebert spoke with Sarandon before the screening of Cameron Crowe’s new romantic comedy “Elizabethtown,” in which Sarandon delivers a scene-stealing performance as a manic widow.

Ebert: In a career filled with great work, “Dead Man Walking” stands out as a role that came from your heart and from your convictions.

When Olive Films relocates to St. Charles from Richland, Washington in late November, Facets Multimedia, which has enjoyed a quarter-century status as the area’s premiere art film distributor, will be looking at a new kid on the block.

The fast-emerging international distributor of eclectic and hard-to-find cinema also will provide local filmmakers a potential outlet for DVD distribution of their indie films.

Owned by Farhad Arshad and his wife, Chicago native Jennifer Bonino, Olive Films will operate from offices and warehouse in a new 2,000-sq. ft.

When DDB’s Grant Hill announced the agency’s commitment to keep its estimated $10 million-plus postproduction business in Chicago, he said the agency would not discourage companies in other production markets from opening branches in Chicago.

The first company to respond is Santa Monica’s V12 – not a post house, but a full-service production company in Santa Monica.

If Chicago Studio City is sold before the July start date, “Barber Shop 2” could be filmed in in Los Angeles.

“Of course, we’d try to find another place in Chicago,” said line producer Tom Busch of the sequel to George Tillman and Bob Teitel’s “Barber Shop” hit of last summer.

“We’d run the numbers on modifying an alternate location to make it workable. But we may find that it’s cheaper to shoot in L.A.”

He added: “The message that would send to Hollywood as to Illinois’ commitment to filmmaking is frightening.”