Category: Indie Focus

Indie film “A Light Beneath Their Feet,” from LA-based PhD Productions, starring Taryn Manning (“Orange is the New Black”) will start shooting in Evanston the end of Mar...

Chicago has been host to many different kinds of events that fall into the sporting category, but the one scheduled Saturday, July 12 is hard to classify as it’s a version of ...

WHILE A TAX PREPARATION BUSINESS may appear dull and predictable, CEO Judy Brooks and sister Jackelin Brooks, partners of well established, Judy Brooks & Associates (JBA) of...

KY DICKENS’ FEATURE DOC, Sole Survivor, keeps winning honors and acclaim, the latest being the Best Feature award from the Midwest independent Film Festival, presented in fron...

DIRECTOR ALEC PINKSTON and his writing partner STEVE SHIELDS debut their new comedy web series Sick Day, a satire of a morning talk show, with a screening and live standup June ...

SHOOTING IS UNDERWAY on first-time filmmaker/actress Allie Loukas’ low-budget feature, Like Father, Like Daughter, filming which shot in Lake Forest and Waukegan and moves to ...

JERRY VASILATOS of Nitestar Productions edited Colors: Bangin’ in South Carolina, the second documentary about gang violence in that state by Terrance Davis (South Carolina Dr...

THE MIDWEST INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL’S annual Comedic Shorts night April 2 is doing something different this year by co-presenting with the Chicago Improv Festival.  MWF...

Busy actress/producer Grace McPhillips of Sterling Rock Productions has taken to crowd sourcing IndieGoGo to raise $100,000 by April 1 for an indie feature she plans t...

VETERAN TV PRODUCER DON DUPREE of DuPree Productions is producer of the half-hour pilot A Piece of the Game, a sports reality show presented by Alllstate that’s running five t...

ERIC RICHTER, Victory Records’ in-house video producer, has a new video for The Tossers’ “Emerald City,” the title track off the Gaelic punk band’s new album.&nbs...

The art of filmmaking is, in many ways, the celebration of a singularity of vision, with auteur filmmakers telling stories that are at once personal and universal. Marty Shea an...

CHERYL THOMAS is the writer and executive producer of the in-development animated feature Elv-olution, adapted from her own play, which ran in December at the Greenhou...

“The festival or me personally?” Chicago Underground Film Festival programmer and artistic director Bryan Wendorf retorts when asked if he expected to be around this long.Re...

TODD LOOBY’S FEATURE BE GOOD opens Midwest Independent Film Festival’s 2013 season Feb. 5.  The Chicago-made indie, written and directed by Looby, stars Amy Seimetz (of...

DIRECTOR KEVIN COOPER of Amarok Productions, who directed the family dog film I Heart Shakey, arguably the first stereoscopic 3D feature made in Chicago, tackles the tough ...

TODD LOOBY’S short documentary Lollywood, about a teenage filmmaker and war orphan at Liberia Mission, Inc. screens Jan. 20 and 23 in the Slamdance Film Festival.Looby’s nar...

PARALYMPIC SPRINTER AND ACTRESS Katy Sullivan co-stars with Chicago veteran character actor Ron Dean in non-profit Blue Damen Pictures’ short film, Recalculating, directed by ...

SERIAL KILLER SPECIALIST John Borowski (H.H. Holmes, Albert Fish) has released streaming and DVD versions of his third documentary, Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengea...

MUMBLECORE PRACTITIONER Frank V. Ross’ romantic drama Tiger Tale in Blue is one of five nominees for the Nov. 26 Gotham Independent Film Awards’ Best Film Not Playing at a T...