Category: INDIE CINEMA

ONE BOOK ONE CHICAGO has selected award-winning Maria Finitzo / Kartemquin’s “In the Game” doc about a Latino girls’ soccer team at Brighton Park high school for inclusi...

If there are images in this attachment, they will not be displayed.   Download the original attachmentJOE SWANBERG’S "DIGGING FOR FIRE " — the Sundance hit pr...

KRIS SWANBERG’S SUNDANCE HIT indie drama “Unexpected,” will start its limited theatrical release at the Music Box Theatre, July 24, following screenings at 13 US and int...

TICKETS FOR "THE COCKUPS – The Motion Picture," a feature written and directed by Gerard Jamroz of Mobilwave Films, are back on sale for the July 23 premiere after the fir...

Former Filmworkers’ media specialist Zachary Rudd and actor Clayton Fox created and produced a pilot for an off-beat comedy TV series that premieres Thursday, July 9, at the...

New creative industry incubator 2112 and massive Fort Knox Studios, a recording and music rehearsal center, are hosting a panel discussion Wednesday, June 10 as their opening ...

It’s not a “goodbye forever” on Sunday, June 14 for the twentieth Indie Incubator XX free film festival of locally-made short films held bi-monthly for the past decade at...

THE BROTHERS SINGER, writer/producer David, who is also an award-winning composer, and producer Jonathan, of Coin Operated Films, have lined up an impressive cast for their de...

A chilling true story of suspected serial husband killer Belle Gunness that happened more than 100 years ago in LaPorte, Indiana, is the subject of a short film by a combinat...

Beginning last September, award-winning documentarian Ines Sommer of Sommer Filmworks, kept farmers’ grueling dawn-to-dusk hours filming a farming family on their 12-acre org...

Writer/director Kris Swanberg and her filmmaker-husband Joe Swanberg — tagged “the first couple at Sundance” — came home from Park City each having scored big hits wit...

A mockumentary, "The Great Chicago Filmmaker,"  by filmmaker Michael Jolls, screening Jan. 26 at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, aims the camera at burgeoning director...

January’s upcoming slate of entertainment projects looks like a good omen for Chicago 2015 production, as two indie films and a TV pilot, so far, are scheduled to get underw...

IN ADVANCE OF ITS BROADCAST PREMIERE Dec. 17 on Ch. 11, Kindling Group, the production company behind Susanne Suffredin’s documentary @home, is conducting a series of media tr...

An indie family adventure feature, “Thrill Ride,” that’s begun shooting in Chicago, has pledged to donate half of its profits to medical research on a rare pediatric di...

AMONG THE 30 TOP AWARDS that were presented Friday night at the conclusion of the 50th Chicago International Film Festival, was the coveted Chicago Award won by director Marie ...

THREE WOMEN FILMMAKERS whose work premieres in the 50th Chicago International Film Festival, join two local producers in a Community Cinema screening and discussion of Makers:...

Rich Larsen bristles when asked how he acquired his admiration for Al Capone.  “We’re not glorifying gangsters,” he says.  “We know Capone killed people.&nbs...

TIMELY DOC HEAD GAMES, about the epidemic of concussions in football and other sports produced by Steve James (The Interrupters, and Columbia College film department chair Br...

FEMINIST FILMMAKER JENNIFER REEDER, an associate professor of art and art history at UIC, screens a sneak peak from her new film Blood Below the Skin, Sept. 25, along with her ...