If you're not a member of IFP/Midwest and you're an indie film fanatic ? here's your chance to join the organization and enjoy all the benefits of membership ? plus cast y...
(The idea of converting all or part of County Hospital, as proposed by Lerner columnist Ed Schwartz in the Jan. 7 issue of ReelChicago.com) is a great idea, but our proble...
Epiphany Pictures got a boost in the long development of their dream project "Sweet Home Chicago" with the signing of new 4th Row Films of New York to co-produce the featu...
Chicago's vibrant editing scene gets a boost when the national AICE Show takes place here this spring. The third annual show will be an event that show chairman Tom Duff ...
Y&R CD Jon Wyville joins Fallon/ Minneapolis as a group CD Feb. 7. His credits at Y&R include recent work for Miller and NASCAR. Earlier he'd worked at McConnaghy Schmidt...
HIGH POWERED COO TO DK. New COO at Digital Kitchen is Bruce Hanson, formerly in sales and business development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and considered a very visible...
By Jonathan Abarbanel The Fire Commissioner was there. Not his assistant, but the Commish himself. Ditto, the Building Department Commissioner and the Director of the ...
No sooner was the word out that tabletop director/ shooter Mark Klein had opened his own studio than his New York clients began ringing the phone off the hook, said executi...
Red Car editor Marc D'Andre wanted a change from L.A. and let it be known around the water cooler that he was looking to move. "Somebody heard me and the next thing I kne...
Xan Aranda recalls the "sad thrill" of seeing short films she loved at Sundance and other festivals."The life of a short film can be so fleeting," she said. "I wanted to be...
Rudolph Caplan was staying overnight in an infirmary on the night after Kristallnacht in November 1938 when Nazis raided his school and shipped all the male students over ...
The Chicago expatriates of Soul Mate Pictures are back in town this January to make the company's third film, "Rain Today."Directed by veteran stuntman Carl Paoli ("Minority...
Among the many Chicagoans at Park City, Utah this week is Leigh Jones. She's not at Sundance, however, but at Slamdance 2004, where the film she produced was one of 12 th...
Justin Baron is nearing the end of a five-year odyssey to complete his debut feature, "Peep Show."Baron began shooting the 16mm film shortly after he graduated from Columbia...
Chicago filmmaker Satish Menon walked across a stage in New York a few weeks ago and received an award from fellow Indian expatriate Salman Rushdie. The renowned novelist...
Lerner newspaper columnist Ed Schwartz is promoting the idea that the old Cook County Hospital, that County Board president John Stroger is just itching to demolish, could...
Rich Seng wants to be an underground media mogul and he could be well on his way with his new concept: Cherry Bomb, free, monthly DVD compilations of film shorts and music...
When Chicago Bull Jay Williams visited the United Center in December, for the first time since his debilitating motorcycle injury last summer, TeamWorks Media was right th...
By Jan Lisa Huttner After a long professional acquaintance that began on an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," director Robert Altman and screenwriter Barbara Turner...
Moline-based Silver Oaks Communications undertook an ambitious project for its first HD production: a five- camera shoot of the 14th Annual First Presbyterian Church Christ...
