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Category: INDIE CINEMA

Finitzo doc kicks off CPL’s One Book One City program
  • INDIE CINEMA

Finitzo doc kicks off CPL’s One Book One City program

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 16, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Swanberg and Miller-Morgan indie features to premiere
  • INDIE CINEMA

Swanberg and Miller-Morgan indie features to premiere

By Ruth L Ratny Aug 18, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Music Box first theatre stop for Swanberg’s hit indie
  • INDIE CINEMA

Music Box first theatre stop for Swanberg’s hit indie

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 20, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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“The Cockups” tickets again available after sell-out
  • INDIE CINEMA

“The Cockups” tickets again available after sell-out

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 13, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Rudd and Fox’s comedy TV pilot to screen Thursday
  • INDIE CINEMA

Rudd and Fox’s comedy TV pilot to screen Thursday

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 6, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Creative incubator offers  startups a BIG boost
  • INDIE CINEMA

Creative incubator offers startups a BIG boost

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 9, 2015 0 Comment
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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 ...
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Indie Incubator ends 10 years of short film showcase
  • INDIE CINEMA

Indie Incubator ends 10 years of short film showcase

By Ruth L Ratny Jun 4, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Name actors in Singer Brothers’ first indie feature
  • INDIE CINEMA

Name actors in Singer Brothers’ first indie feature

By Ruth L Ratny May 12, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Indiana filmmaker’s short about  femme serial  killer
  • INDIE CINEMA

Indiana filmmaker’s short about femme serial killer

By Mike Morgan May 7, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Sommer’s doc focuses on Illinois organic farm family
  • INDIE CINEMA

Sommer’s doc focuses on Illinois organic farm family

By Lori Rotenberk Apr 23, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Kris and Joe Swanberg movies Sundance successes
  • INDIE CINEMA

Kris and Joe Swanberg movies Sundance successes

By Ruth L Ratny Feb 2, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Mockumentary based on local film ‘horror stories’
  • INDIE CINEMA

Mockumentary based on local film ‘horror stories’

By Mike Morgan Jan 23, 2015 0 Comment
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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...
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Columbia senior Lerchen directs his second feature
  • INDIE CINEMA

Columbia senior Lerchen directs his second feature

By Mike Morgan Nov 24, 2014 0 Comment
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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...
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WTTW to premiere Suffredin’s “@home” homeless doc
  • INDIE CINEMA

WTTW to premiere Suffredin’s “@home” homeless doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 20, 2014 0 Comment
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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...
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Family feature first to donate to charitable cause
  • INDIE CINEMA

Family feature first to donate to charitable cause

By Tommy Fortmann Nov 11, 2014 0 Comment
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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...
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Ullrich’s first feature wins CIFF’s Chicago Award
  • INDIE CINEMA

Ullrich’s first feature wins CIFF’s Chicago Award

by Ed M. Koziarski Oct 20, 2014 0 Comment
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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 ...
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Women producers discuss future of female filmmakers
  • INDIE CINEMA

Women producers discuss future of female filmmakers

by Ed M. Koziarski Oct 10, 2014 0 Comment
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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:...
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As per new doc, Al Capone helped foster Chicago jazz
  • INDIE CINEMA

As per new doc, Al Capone helped foster Chicago jazz

by Ed M. Koziarsky Oct 3, 2014 0 Comment
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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...
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4 docs launch New Science + Cinema showcase Oct. 21
  • INDIE CINEMA

4 docs launch New Science + Cinema showcase Oct. 21

By Ed M. Koziarski Oct 2, 2014 0 Comment
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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...
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“Conversations” program centers on Reeder’s films
  • INDIE CINEMA

“Conversations” program centers on Reeder’s films

Sep 25, 2014 0 Comment
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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 ...
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