Dreaming Tree Films continues its combination of heavy-hitting sponsors and teen apprenticeships with a city-funded feature and a major expansion of its Wrigley-financed "...
Local 476 president Mark Hogan reports that 476 business agent Paul Oddo, who was paralyzed as a result of a brain aneurism, "has full use of both legs and arms and he's talking...
Paul Oddo, Local 476's business agent is in stable condition after an operation over the weekend at the UCLA Medical Center remove a brain aneurism which had paralyzed his arm a...
When filmmaker Phil Donlon shot his short "A Series of Small Things," the follow up to his acclaimed "Wrestled," here last May, he invited assistant Mark Letchumanan to do...
Donius presided over her first IFP Filmmakers Conference Oct. 21-24, featuring an expanded four-day schedule, a higher-profile roster of national figures and attendees fro...
Headlining the Oct. 21-24 IFP/Chicago Filmmakers Conference were Academy Award nominated actress Laura Linney ("You Can Count on Me") and writer-director Dylan Kidd. F...
NATHYN MASTERS' guerilla style apocalyptic thriller "4th Beast: Mask of the Antichrist" has been picked up for DVD release by York Entertainment of Sherman Oaks, Calif. M...
Ch. 11's 50-year archive of public TV content should be available online by early next year, through a new agreement with media asset management firm MediaRecall. MediaRecall...
Columbia College production program director Paula Froehle has been awarded IFP/Chicago's $100,000-value Production Fund grant to produce her experimental narrative "Up On...
Three locally-made features screen this month at the Polish Film Festival in America and the Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.The improv film collective Split Pill...
A video celebrating the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 100th anniversary was created by Swell's Bazooka graphics division entirely from archival materials, via agency Ebel ...
A former Chicagoan now living in Texas had composed a song called "Red Planet Blues," and sought a clay animation company to create the story of Mori the Martian who dream...
Comcast Cable marshaled its emerging video-on-demand (VOD) platform as part of an integrated, election-themed product launch campaign for Proctor & Gamble's Old Spice Red Zo...
Jeff Garlin kept a 14-year-old promise to Pete Biagi that the local DP would shoot the comedian's debut feature.Garlin, a co-star and executive producer of HBO's "Curb Your Enth...
SHERRY LANSING departs Paramount Pictures after 12 years in 2005 as a dual result of a management shakeup and the fact the last six pictures made under her tutelage were box off...
EMMY-WINNING WRITER RICK CLEVELAND ("The West Wing" and "Six Feet Under") returned last Monday (10/25) to the Off-Loop theatre he co-founded, American Theatre Company, and tore ...
Funeral services will be held for veteran DP Brian Claire Nov. 4 at the Sacred Heart Church in Marengo, Ill. The veteran director of photography, 52, died in his home after a b...
Man-Sung Son of SMS Productions said the 35mm feature he's producing, "Missed It," could shoot here or in Columbus next January.Director Brian Southers has secured locations...
Record label Sonic Wave International cements its expansion into visual media with the completion of its first documentary, "Ancient India Today," being shopped to the Tra...
Two local feature docs head up an expanded presence for documentaries at the 13th Annual IFP/ Chicago Filmmakers Conference that begins Thursday, Oct. 21."The heightened pr...
