Category: Reel Indie

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

The Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival is pleased to partner with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Conversations at the Edge series for the inaugural scre...

Nebula Creatives will soon offer Chicago's independent film community an inclusive incubator studio at the forefront of its endeavors. Led by Thai female director and producer R...

The Sundance Institute, in collaboration with global philanthropic organization Luminate, today announced six new projects supported by the Sundance Institute | Luminate Fund. ...

Executive Producers Chris Charles and John W. Bosher have expanded their Midwestern canon with the award-winning paranormal psycho-thriller The Dawn, which was released in selec...

Chicago Entertainment Lawyer Hal "Corky" Kessler, a partner at Rubenstein Business Law, is connecting Illinois filmmakers with an opportunity to win much-needed services in an u...

Chicago Filmmaker Brian Andrews' new film, Hominidæ, about an x-ray spider mutant, will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24th at 8:00 p.m. at Th...

Bow + Arrow Films director Ted Lega combined live rock-n-roll with mesmerizing drama to create a retro-flavored video for “If I Could,” a new single by Trickshooter Social C...

Ten years after its world premiere, the locally-produced mob thriller Chicago Overcoat has been picked up for a second run by Indie Rights. A re-mastered version of the 2009 fi...

The Gene Siskel Film Center will screen the Chicago premiere of the award-winning film, Moving Parts, on January 3rd, 6th, and 7th. Sponsored by IFP Chicago, Moving Parts is a ...

Abby McEnany and Tim Mason have inspired much more than an impending cultural sensation with their new Showtime comedy series,

Border'd, a new Chicago-based web series, announced today their partnership with media company Creative Cypher to produce the first season of the show. Border'd focuses on the ...

Recognizing producers as the creative entrepreneurs who make a thriving independent film industry possible, Full Spectrum Features and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs...