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The Brazilian city has formed a new film commission, hired a longtime movie industry pro to head it and set an ambitious first goal: landing the next Woody Allen flick by dangli...

Good news for filmmaker Beverly Price came twice within the space of a week, when she learned she had been nominated for two Emmys and that her labor-of-love documentary had be...

Mark Hogan was unanimously elected president of the Illinois Production Alliance following the surprise resignation of Jeff Crabtree, who announced he had joined Gov. Quinn's s...

Chicago/Midwest TV Academy members heard 266 Emmy nominations announced last week at Lawry's The Prime Rib last week, a lengthy list of people who excelled on programs that aire...

Executive producer Marsie Wallach started out helping her former boss, Joe Sedelmaier, find distribution for his short film and ended up shooting a revealing documentary about t...

Tony Izzo, a film pioneer who ascended from film lab intern to one of the giants in the postproduction business, died from cancer complications Sept. 27 at Hinsdale Hospital, wi...

COMEDIAN TOM DRESSEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special, "The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link," shot by RDS at the recent Sweet Home Illin...

A year ago August, former Avenue Edit editor Chris Segich and director Seth Henriksen set out to find space for their new company, where they could combine Henriksen's productio...

The formation of a Cook County Film Commission (CCFC) is expected to be voted into law by the Cook County Board of Commissioners by mid-November, and will be open for business ...

Usama Alshaibi, who made the acclaimed feature-length doc "Nice Bombs," about his native Iraq, is the recipient of the first Kartemquin Films' Diversity Fellowship. Alshaibi,...

Grand Rapids appears to be the newest indie film center as three indie features will start rolling next month and two others are planned to follow. First up Nov. 28 is "Sleep...

Ellen Fox, who is now the co-host with Brett Erlich of "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" on Current TV, learned a lot from her years here in Chicago. The personal initiative that Fo...

FOUNDATION CONTENT is in the process of adding its first state-of-the-art sound design and mixing studio to its Streeterville facilities. Staff audio engineer Ryan Prybil is d...

JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office's diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home afte...

NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine Madsen, to produce...

Bob Greenberg of R/GA will give a keynote at the Boards Summit in New York on the death of the production company paradigm. At first this seemed startling but, after reflection...

Hollywood development director and script consultant Daniel Manus speaks in Chicago for the first time Oct. 2-4 for a weekend of sharing insider tips on how to sell a screenplay...

"BLUEGRASS RUN," the Trinity Angels Production of a comedy adventure feature set in Chicago and the horse country of Kentucky, recently shot key Chicago scenes at Loop locatio...

The Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum (WSF) in Madison kicks off a new season with new president Ken Miyamoto, a former Sony Pictures script reader/story analyst and paid screenwrit...

Eighty minutes worth of short films, from comedy to dreamy gritty docs produced by creatives at ad agencies and post/production houses, will be showcased Oct. 6, thanks the firs...