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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 “...

“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...