A TRIO OF SHORTS by local filmmakers will screen Sunday, Oct. 16, centered around the premiere of “Song for Pluto,” an 8-minute short by filmmaker/screenwriter Richard Cohen...
SHORT FILM PRODUCERS are invited to attend a special AFTRA/SAG Breakfast Workshop “Demystifying SAG Low Budget Contracts,” dealing with how you can afford to hire profession...
SEVEN CHICAGO-MADE SHORTS, grouped under the title of The Chicago Connection, screen Thursday, Aug. 25 at the Black Harvest International Film Festival. One of those shorts...
SMASHED! A short film by writer/director Theophilus Jamal, about a band struggling to stay together during the changing Chicago alternative rock music scene in the ‘90s starts...
TO START A DOC on a subject close to their hearts, Media Process Group producers Bob Hercules and John McCarthy launched a Kickstarter site, to raise $5,000 for a trailer for th...
FILMMAKER ADRIANNA MCKINLEY’S character-driven sci-fi short drama, Breathers, based on the Breathers comic book by Justin Madson, is in postproduction being readied for two lo...
FILMMAKER JAMES VALLO’S COMEDY, Sister Mary, has its world premiere Saturday, July 16 at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., in St. Charles, followed by a party a...
A PARTY JUNE 22 for the soundtrack of 18 original country songs by the Crooked Willow band, from Julian Grant’s feature film, Fall Away, will be hosted by the film’s produce...
GRITTY CHICAGO AUTHOR NELSON ALGREN (Man with the Golden Arm, Chicago, City on the Make) will come to life in the first feature-length documentary about him – provided the pro...
FILMMAKERS AND FILM BUFFS will have no problem finding a festival, screening series or premiere offerings to their varied tastes this month.SHOCK THEATRE’S new monthly series ...
JUNKO KAJINO and I are headed to northern Japan this spring to begin production on our new documentary, Uncanny Terrain, through Homesick Blues Productions.We will follow organi...
When Tamale, an interdisciplinary artist and comedian, invited filmmakers C. Bryne and Nadia Oussenko to document her bid for the crown in the 25th annual International Ms. Leat...
MANY HOLLYWOOD AND LOCAL EXPERTS will lead seminars and panels May 7 during the Sundance Institute’s ShortsLab:Chicago at Columbia College, showing how filmmakers can show and...
THIRTY FILMS BY CHICAGO CREW MEMBERS are featured on Industry Night, April 16, in the 6th annual MoFest festival and party, and features, The Beekeeper, by filmmaker Sean J...
IN ITS ONLINE RELEASE, director Eddie O’Keefe’s short film, The Ghosts, garnered 30,000 hits in two weeks. It’s a dreamy, black and white, rock-infused ‘50s-style tale o...
USAMA ALSHAIBI’S button-pushing feature “Profane,” starring Manal Kara, as a devout Muslim dominatrix, has its U.S. premiere March 26 and 29 at the Boston Underground...
WRITER/PRODUCER RON LAZZERETTI'S Something Better Somewhere Else is the opening feature of the lean, stripped down 8th annual Lake County Film Festival, March 17, and running th...
JOE KEEFE of Long Tail Media Group is producing fridaynitebYtes, a streaming comedy sketch series targeted to tween-and-teen internet users. The members contribute their s...
A COMEDY WEB PORTAL called “Fooblik” is being built by Kamath “Kayenn” Nilesh of Argeli Vicar. The production team is producing the series “Fooblik News Network” and...
STEVEN HILLER of Hesperus Films is shooting Rachel Cook’s Microlending Film: A Documentary About Enterprising Women in India and Bangladesh this month. They filmed in Pa...
