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BREAKING NEWS

Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ wins Spoken Word Grammy

By Daniel Patton Jan 27, 2020

Former First Lady, native South-Side Chicagoan, and all-around modern-day Renaissance Woman Michelle Obama won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word for her 2018 memoir, Becoming, at ...

REEL MOVES

Joanna Miller joins The House of Representatives

By Reel Chicago Jan 24, 2020

Detroit-based industry veteran Joanna Miller has joined The House of Representatives (THOR) as a Midwest Representative Associate. Miller brings more than a decade of advertisi...

Reel People

Weinstein’s ‘A Missed Connection’ worth the wait

By Daniel Patton Jan 24, 2020

Chicago filmmaker Matthew Weinstein reeled in the years to complete A Missed Connection, a 2019 dramatic short premiering at the Beloit International Film Festival (BIFF) on Feb...

REEL LATINO

Panorama LatinX Showcase at Siskel Center, Feb 1

By Reel Chicago Jan 24, 2020

Through a juried selection process, seven films have been selected out of over 40 entries to create the Gene Siskel Film Center’s second edition of the Panorama Latinx Short F...

NEW WORK

AICP short film asks, are you ‘Obsessed With Craft’?

By Reel Chicago Jan 23, 2020

Obsessed with Craft is a new short film released by AICP to promote entries to the AICP Awards — The AICP Show, The AICP Post Awards and The AICP Next Awards. It features the ...

Reel Indie

‘The Dawn’ sends shivers from Minnesota to California

By Reel Chicago Jan 23, 2020

Executive Producers Chris Charles and John W. Bosher have expanded their Midwestern canon with the award-winning paranormal psycho-thriller The Dawn, which was released in selec...

BREAKING NEWS

Shortlist for 8th annual One Screen Short Film Festival

By Reel Chicago Jan 22, 2020

Shortlisted entries from 15 countries have been announced for the eighth annual One Screen Short Film Festival, the premiere short film festival that celebrates and awards globa...

Reel Indie

Hal ‘Corky’ Kessler hosts $20K screenplay competition

By Reel Chicago Jan 22, 2020

Chicago Entertainment Lawyer Hal "Corky" Kessler, a partner at Rubenstein Business Law, is connecting Illinois filmmakers with an opportunity to win much-needed services in an u...

Reel Indie

Chicago-made x-ray spider mutant creeps into Sundance

By Reel Chicago Jan 22, 2020

Chicago Filmmaker Brian Andrews' new film, Hominidæ, about an x-ray spider mutant, will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24th at 8:00 p.m. at Th...

BREAKING NEWS

McDonald’s ID among Mobius Best of Show winners

By Reel Chicago Jan 22, 2020

McDonald’s new visual ID system created by Turner Duckworth is among the Best of Show (Grand Prix) winners of the 2019 Mobius Awards. Recognizing outstanding advertising, des...

Women’s Empowerment

Banner, Blackhawks, Kendall Coyne, and ‘As Fast as Her’

By Daniel Patton Jan 22, 2020

Digital content studio Banner helped the Chicago Blackhawks celebrate hockey and empowerment in an 18-minute film about Kendall Coyne titled, As Fast as Her, which premieres tod...

BREAKING NEWS

Bing Liu among United States Artists 2020 USA Fellows

By Reel Chicago Jan 22, 2020

United States Artists (USA) is pleased to announce its 2020 USA Fellows. This year, fifty artists across ten creative disciplines will receive unrestricted $50,000 cash awards. ...

REEL MOVES

FCB Chicago elevates key leaders

By Reel Chicago Jan 21, 2020

FCB today announced major staff updates, promoting three key leaders within the Chicago office. Fernando Espejel has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO), while Michell...

BREAKING NEWS

Erica Duffy describes her Midwest Film Fest vision

By Daniel Patton Jan 20, 2020

For the past 15 years, the Midwest Independent Film Festival has been showcasing Midwest filmmakers at monthly screenings known as “First Tuesdays.” Over the past two years,...

NEW WORK

Lanfranco & Cordova release five new One Show spots

By Reel Chicago Jan 20, 2020

Five more humorous spots from Lanfranco & Cordova, NY and Lima, Peru, have been released to promote The One Show 2020 call for entries, deadline January 31, 2020. Playing o...

REEL AUDIO

City Lights Orchestra celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr

By Daniel Patton Jan 20, 2020

The Chicago-based City Lights Orchestra celebrated the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail in an 11-minute rhapsody composed by Bradley Will...

REEL THINGS

SACRED to sponsor Allstate Hot Chocolate 15K/5K

By Reel Chicago Jan 17, 2020

SACRED — purveyor of Pain Balm, Pain Lotion, Infused Body Stick and Wellness CBD Tincture — has announced its official sponsorship for the National Allstate Hot Chocolate 15...

BREAKING NEWS

‘61st Street’ to begin shooting at Cinespace this April

By Reel Chicago Jan 17, 2020

AMC announced today from the Television Critics’ Association (TCA) Press Tour that Emmy Award-winner Courtney B. Vance (The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Love...

Celebrating the “Six Degrees of ‘One Chicago'”

By Daniel Patton Jan 17, 2020

In the fall of 2018, NBC began airing Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago PD back-to-back-to-back as a trifecta called One Chicago on Wednesday nights. The decision generate...

Reel People

On location with October TV co-founder Chris DeWinter

By Daniel Patton Jan 17, 2020

Reel Chicago introduces 'Reel People', a collection of profiles of film and creative professionals that will run every Friday. Our inaugural installment features October TV co-f...