EMILY ARMSTRONG and PAT IVERS will be on hand for the May 29 screening of their hour doc "Nightclubbing: Greatest Hits," a collection of performance footage culled from their ?7...
SPLIT PILLOW'S CHALLENGE 3.0, the group's third annual collaborative filmmaking contest, runs Memorial Day weekend, May 27-30. Friday, each filmmaking team writes a short scri...
You've heard a lot about the Illinois Production Tax Credit but don't know how it applies to you? Then you've come to the right place. ReelChicago brings you the IPA's easy ...
Michael Caplan's personal documentary "Stones from the Soil" premieres in 75 markets on PBS Plus this month. "Stones from the Soil" explores the impact of Gross-Breesen, a Je...
Thanks to the state treasurer's Lights, Camera, Illinois! loan program, filmmakers Neil Luspo and William Pierce obtained a $300,000 low-interest loan for their fourth movie. ...
Editor Sue Lawson doesn't mind fighting the "horrendous traffic" from Lake Bluff to the Adler Planetarium for a Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group meeting, "because they are so w...
Chicago is about to regain its once-dazzling reputation for jazz as production of a series on the music and artists gets underway at Ch. 11. "Legends of Jazz" is a 13-week, h...
The film industry was bent on recommending improvements to the Illinois Film Production Tax incentive, while legislators focused hard on the progress of diversity hiring as cent...
Breadline Theatre Group artistic director Paul Kampf is in post on his debut feature "American Gothic," the $1 million 35mm Utah-shot drama starring John Heard ("Pollock"). "...
Actor/screenwriter Craig J. Harris' provocative hourlong drama, "Skin Complex," premieres Saturday, May 28 on the PAX television network, after a run on syndication that earned ...
Just three days before the 1968 Democratic National Convention was to convene in Chicago, a riotous Viet Nam war protest erupted at Grant Park. Mike Gray, then a spot produ...
INDIEFEST CHICAGO has extended the submission deadline to May 10 for the Third Annual Indiefest Film Festival & Market, the only film market in Midwest, which runs July 29-Aug. ...
USAMA ALSHAIBI won the Tribeca Film Festival's All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature for his in-progress doc "Nice Bombs," a chronicle of Alshaibi's return w...
The White Castle chain gets top quality treatment in a trio of comedy commercials with music provided by Spank! and edited by Bob Carr of Red Car for JWT-Detroit and directed by...
were presented to Victor Garber, TTS alum W. Earl Brown and multi award winning Emma Thompson by The Theatre School at DePaul University April 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Thom...
The Whitehouse husband-and-wife CEO Charles Day and COO Christine Tardio on May 13 will leave the post house they originally founded in the mid-?90s as The Lookingglass Company....
When the DVD of George Romero's new zombie picture "Land of the Dead" hits stores this summer, it will include Rusty Nails' featurette "Stay Scared: The Art of George A. Romero....
In the world of improv and sketch comedy, Chicago reigns supreme. Nowhere is that more evident than in the eighth annual Chicago Improv Festival, now through May 1 at the Athena...
It's been a year since freelance editors Mindy Hilt and Karla Svatos opened post house Edit Diva, and while business has ebbed and flowed, they've grown enough to start expandin...
Korean arts and media group Yehyang Cultural Ministry is throwing its hat into the filmmaking arena with "The Gift," an HD Christian dramatic feature that shoots this May and Ju...
