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Category: INDIE CINEMA

Reeling32 fest to screen 100 LBGT films Sept. 18-25
  • INDIE CINEMA

Reeling32 fest to screen 100 LBGT films Sept. 18-25

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 12, 2014
Reeling Film Festival, founded by Brenda Webb of Chicago Filmmakers and now in its 32nd year, opens Sept. 18 at the Music Box and runs through Sept. 25. About 100 films will sc...
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‘Dead Girls’ lively choice for two horror film fests
  • INDIE CINEMA

‘Dead Girls’ lively choice for two horror film fests

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 2, 2014
ANTHOLOGY FILM DEAD GIRLS  that was made on a micro-budget, shot over four weekends with a cast of 70 union and non union actors, has gone from script to distribution ...
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Webb back at Reeling fest helm after hiatus to retool
  • INDIE CINEMA

Webb back at Reeling fest helm after hiatus to retool

by Ed M. Koziarski Aug 19, 2014
FOUNDER BRENDA WEBB is back at the helm of Reeling: Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, after she took it on hiatus in 2012 to retool and focus on development work, whic...
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Lending receives $1.1 mm PBS grant to complete doc
  • INDIE CINEMA

Lending receives $1.1 mm PBS grant to complete doc

by Ed M. Koziarski Aug 14, 2014
OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMMAKER Tod Lending’s documentary, All the Difference, five years in the making, has received a $1.1 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcast...
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Euro punk musicians co-star in Leyser’s new feature
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Euro punk musicians co-star in Leyser’s new feature

by Ed M Koziarski Jul 23, 2014
WRITER/DIRECTOR YONY LEYSER, whose 2010 debut feature documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within was released by Oscilloscope Pictures and broadcast nationally on PBS, is m...
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Nearing’s period mystery premieres at Black Harvest
  • INDIE CINEMA

Nearing’s period mystery premieres at Black Harvest

by Ed M. Koziarski Jul 1, 2014
WRITER/DIRECTOR DANIEL NEARING’S murder mystery, Hogtown, with a multi-racial cast of 70, filmed in black-and-white and set in post WWI Chicago, premieres at the Gene Siskel...
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Grant directing feature drama for Two 9 Productions
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Grant directing feature drama for Two 9 Productions

by Ed M. Koziarski Jun 23, 2014
JULIAN GRANT (Sweet Leaf) wrote and is directing Finding Hope, a drama about a man fighting to win back his wife after a tragic accident, produced by Two 9 Productions and curr...
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LA company options Gaunt’s Uptown-set crime thriller
  • INDIE CINEMA

LA company options Gaunt’s Uptown-set crime thriller

Ed M Koziarski Jun 15, 2014
NGN PRODUCTIONS (The Mask) of Studio City is developing the thriller feature The End of the Night for production next year on a $1-3 million budget.  Associate producer T...
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12 accept $100K in grants for social change projects
  • INDIE CINEMA

12 accept $100K in grants for social change projects

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 3, 2014
TWELVE WORTHY FILMMAKERS were awarded $100,000 in grants from The Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, in amounts ranging from $3,850 to $10,000, for projects designed to adv...
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Cone’s new horror film ‘Black Box’ screens at Siskel
  • INDIE CINEMA

Cone’s new horror film ‘Black Box’ screens at Siskel

by Ed M. Koziarski May 29, 2014
AWARD-WINNING WRITER/DIRECTOR  STEPHEN CONE (The Wise Kids) returns to his coming-of-age territory with his latest feature Black Box, which starts its theatrical run May 3...
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Hesser’s doc wins top prize at its first fest entry
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Hesser’s doc wins top prize at its first fest entry

Ed M. Koziarski May 19, 2014
 LOVE IS A VERB, Terry Spencer Hesser’s documentary about the controversial Turkish Muslim leader and activist Fethullah Gulen, won the Best Documentary award at the rece...
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$170K in grants for MPG’s Maya Angelou feature doc
  • INDIE CINEMA

$170K in grants for MPG’s Maya Angelou feature doc

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 20, 2014
“It's been a banner month here,” says Media Process Group's   Bob Hercules, with justification.  MPG’s film, “Maya Angelou: The People’s Poet,” just ...
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April blossoms with new show, fests, screenings, et al
  • INDIE CINEMA

April blossoms with new show, fests, screenings, et al

By Mike Morgan Mar 31, 2014
CNGM PICTURES, led by EP Michael P. Noens, has released the pilot episode of "Brightside,"  a new original web series of seven 25-minute episodes. However -- the produ...
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Actor Stolte signs with Orlandino’s “Anita” feature
  • INDIE CINEMA

Actor Stolte signs with Orlandino’s “Anita” feature

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 30, 2013
VERSATILE ACTOR CHRISTIAN STOLTE will play the role of American seaman John Griggs, in Joe Orlandino and Lucia Mauro’s historical indie feature about Brazilian freedom fighter...
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Sam Macon helms “Sign Painters,” Radar’s first feature
  • INDIE CINEMA

Sam Macon helms “Sign Painters,” Radar’s first feature

by Ed M. Koziarski Oct 1, 2013
RADAR STUDIOS FIRST FEATURE, the hit documentary Sign Painters, directed by Radar’s Sam Macon and artist/photographer/filmmaker Faythe Levine, adapted from their 2012 book abo...
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New projects, premieres, fests start fall film season
  • INDIE CINEMA

New projects, premieres, fests start fall film season

by Ed M. Koziarski Sep 4, 2013
ATTORNEY JOSEPH KLEST is developing the documentary The Whole Truth, to advance the argument that clergy sexual abuse of children is prevalent across religions and not limited t...
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Nolen’s latest feature is “Four Seasons,” now in post
  • INDIE CINEMA

Nolen’s latest feature is “Four Seasons,” now in post

by Ed M. Koziarski Aug 15, 2013
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NOLEN of Nferno Productions is in postproduction on the romantic feature Four Seasons, about a 36-year-old man almost ready to settle down, who “...
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Shorts producers Kickstart their first comedy feature
  • INDIE CINEMA

Shorts producers Kickstart their first comedy feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 10, 2013
“A guy circling a bunch of obituaries in a newspaper the way someone would circle classified ads for jobs.” That image was the starting point for Christian Gridelli and Hunt...
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