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‘Shooting Heroin’ is hosting a Virtual Live Red Carpet

By Reel Chicago Apr 2, 2020 0 Comment

Shooting Heroin, one of the first narrative feature films on the current opioid epidemic in North America, is hosting a virtual Live Red Carpet Premiere with cast and crew on A...

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Chicago crew take SXSW Jury Prize for ‘Finding Yingying’

By Brian Soszynski Mar 25, 2020 0 Comment

Feature documentary, Finding Yingying has been awarded the SXSW 2020 Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice. Produced by Kartemquin Films, ...

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‘Echo Boomers’ wraps in Chicago, moves to post

By Laura Day Mar 16, 2020 0 Comment

You may not be as familiar with the term from which Echo Boomers gets its title as you are with “generation Y," or the all too ubiquitous “millennials." As the children of ...

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The Girl With the Rivet Gun

By Katharin Mraz Mar 13, 2020 0 Comment

Being a huge fan of other female filmmakers, I love hearing about women in the industry making a difference. Therefore, seeing The Girl With The Rivet Gun was quite ...

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Steve Martin ‘Cruel Shoes’ at Chicago Comedy Film Fest

By Reel Chicago Mar 11, 2020 0 Comment

Chicago Comedy Film Festival will present its 9th annual festival in just under two weeks. Shorts, features, webseries, and pilots, to include the Steve Martin recently release...

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Faith to be found in Rachel Gordon’s film ‘Broken Bird’

By Laura Day Mar 10, 2020 0 Comment

Rachel Harison Gordon just got back from the Berlin International Film Festival. For her short film, Broken Bird to be screening at festivals across the world is difficult for ...

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‘Stand!’ makes US Premiere at Chicago Jewish Film Fest

Mar 2, 2020 0 Comment

Canadian playwright Danny Schur’s musical, Strike!, was doing just fine until film director Robert Adetuyi got his hands on it. An up-tempo depiction of a love story that take...

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The Colonie’s Keith Kristinat edits ‘Two Dum Micks’

Feb 24, 2020 0 Comment

Two Dum Micks — an offbeat comedic short film, written, directed, and produced by D.B. Sweeney and edited by Keith Kristinat at The Colonie - is sweeping the festival circuit ...

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MFF launches 2020 season under new director Duffy

By Katharin Mraz Feb 23, 2020 0 Comment

Erica Duffy, a transplant from San Francisco, has been part of the Chicago film community for 6 years and counting. No stranger to film production, she’s the proud owner of C...

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Howard, Daufenbach join Sheen series production team

By Reel Chicago Feb 20, 2020 0 Comment

Dr. Peter Howard and Lawrence Daufenbach have joined the producing team for a Bishop Fulton Sheen TV series currently in development. A Chicago-based production partner to the ...

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Chi Comedy Fest to screen ‘Waikiki PD’ at March show

By Reel Chicago Feb 14, 2020 0 Comment

Aaward-winning filmmaker, Jeff Orig, wrote, directed, edited, and produced his first feature film, Waikiki PD, which was just selected for the Chicago Comedy Film Festival. A Cr...

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Michael Glover Smith’s ‘Relative’ filming in May

By Reel Chicago Feb 7, 2020 0 Comment

Relative Film LLC announces today the cast of Relative, the fourth feature film from Michael Glover Smith (Rendezvous in Chicago, Mercury in Retrograde), which is scheduled to s...

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Goldwyn gets ‘Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band’

By Reel Chicago Feb 7, 2020 0 Comment

Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that the company has acquired North American rights to Tod Lending’s feature documentary Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band (aka ...

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Fahey, Gray take Archbishop Sheen TV series to market

By Reel Chicago Feb 4, 2020 0 Comment

Writer/filmmakers Sean Fahey and Dieterich Gray began developing a series about Archbishop Fulton Sheen in 2014. Now they are taking the pilot episode to agencies and networks. ...

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At Sundance w/Kartemquin’s Steve James & Zak Piper

By Pamela Powell Feb 2, 2020 0 Comment

Reel Chicago correspondent, reporter, and film critic Pamela Powell interviews Kartemquin Films' Oscar-nominated director Steve James and Emmy Award-winning producer Zak Piper a...