Ari Golan has come full-circle. Gearing up to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Golan Productions/Atomic Imaging with the company's notorious annual Halloween bash Oct. 2...
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 Sarando...
At last, after decades of feeling like orphans with noses pressed against the window of the indie movie world, Chicago filmmakers can now proudly proclaim to be part of that wor...
ACTION/CUT FILMMAKING SEMINAR offers participants an intensive two-day workshop in bringing a project from script to completion. Oct. 29-30, Chicago Conference Center at Courty...
Cutters' owner/editor Chris Claeys is Chicago's man of the hour. Maybe even a tiny footnote to White Sox history. The possessor of one of the most valuable mementoes of major ...
L.A. grows a little more like home for Chicago expats in the theater and film industries, as Windy City Players host their Inaugural Fundraiser Nov. 6 at the Knitting Factory in...
RON FLEISCHER'S debut eight-minute animated short "Lemmings" took home the Chicago Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Fleischer was an animator for "Animaniacs,"...
Pete Schwaba is ready to do it on his own. The co-writer of the 2003 MGM comedy "A Guy Thing" has fielded theatrical distribution offers for his directorial debut "The God...
Marc Selz' sophomore slasher pic "The Rockville Slayer" hits stores Nov. 1 in a home video deal with Freestyle Entertainment and Universal Music's Visual Entertainment division....
When she saw "Fashion Man" Vincent Falk running toward the middle of the State Street bridge before a tour boat passed on the river below, Jennifer Burns knew she'd found th...
Three years after moving back from Los Angeles to his native Chicago, veteran film and TV horror maven Gary Sherman has almost completed his first feature in 15 years, a serial ...
A show that began with modest expectations of a slot on a local cable outlet has bloomed into a global multi-media experience that will be the model for future shows. Play N...
Ch. 11 is getting it back together again after a funding slump with the launch of three new shows the station will produce. "CEO Exchanges" hosted by journalist Jeff Gree...
SPLIT PILLOW'S collaborative feature "Common Senses," a tribute to the 10th anniversary of Dogme95, premieres Oct. 21. "Common Senses" was shot in succession by five directors, ...
Pete Jones, the inaugural Project Greenlight director, has made the big leagues. He sold his spec script "Hall Pass" to Fox for a Farrelly Brothers production in a high-si...
With feature film production slowing as we head into the final months of 2005, Illinois Production Alliance leaders are defining an agenda for the coming year and issuing a call...
Danielle Beverly was an accomplished young TV documentary producer looking for a subject for her first feature doc when, in 2000, she heard that her friend Patsy Desmond had att...
DANIELLE BEVERLY'S documentary "Learning to Swallow," about Wicker Park artist Patsy Desmond's journey to recovery after a suicide attempt destroyed her digestive system, screen...
JON JOST ("All the Vermeers in New York"), the Chicago native called "the American Godard," premieres two recent feature films Oct. 12 and 13 at the Film Center. Ryan Harper ...
SPLIT PILLOW shoots its fourth collaborative feature "Realization" from mid-October to mid-November. Eight filmmakers will direct seven distinct chapters written by seven screen...
