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Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

New HBO Go digital airs ‘Single Long’ comedy series

New HBO Go digital airs ‘Single Long’ comedy series

by Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012
Jack Lawrence Mayer, Sarra Jahedi and Ed Hausman were a year out of the University of Chicago when they created the comedy pilot Single Long, based in part on a weekly web serie...
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Region’s only gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm

Region’s only gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012
Since July, Midwest Camera Car has begun offering the region’s only locally-available gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm: a Russian Arm from Toronto-based Filmotechnic Canada....
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MBC to screen Media Burn’s rare Studs Terkel shows

MBC to screen Media Burn’s rare Studs Terkel shows

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 3, 2012
Among the achievements of four-time Emmy winner, video activist and documentarian Tom Weinberg is his massive Media Burn Independent Video Archive, which boasts the largest coll...
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Feature doc in progress about airline crash survivor
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Feature doc in progress about airline crash survivor

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 29, 2012
KY DICKENS is raising finishing funds for her second feature documentary Sole Survivor. The film follows George Lamson, the only person to live through the 1985 crash of Galaxy ...
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Crime thriller is Marchetti’s one shot to direct

Crime thriller is Marchetti’s one shot to direct

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 20, 2012
“It’s kind of like the world is closing in on you,” aspiring filmmaker Jack Marchetti says, “until it’s like you’re looking through a very tiny straw.” Marchetti h...
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Music underscores Claxton’s Draftfcb writing workshops

Music underscores Claxton’s Draftfcb writing workshops

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 17, 2012
The grand piano he happened upon at Newberry Library turned John Claxton’s plans for a writing workshop into something he says “is at least a hybrid, if not fairly unique. I...
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Ghazi’s Arab American ‘Fordson’ doc to DVD release
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Ghazi’s Arab American ‘Fordson’ doc to DVD release

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 16, 2012
FORDSON THE MOVIE, Rashid Ghazi’s Ruth Leitman-scripted documentary about an Arab American football team in Dearborn, Michigan fasting for Ramadan as they train to play their ...
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Experiential design demand fuels Leviathan’s growth

Experiential design demand fuels Leviathan’s growth

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 16, 2012
When his company eatdrink started to bounce back from the recession in 2009, Chad Hutson turned to Matt Daly, formerly a CG and VFX artist at Optimus, to augment his downsized s...
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Four Antelis enterprises assemble under one roof

Four Antelis enterprises assemble under one roof

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 13, 2012
Composer and music producer Ira Antelis has managed to assemble under one roof all four of the enterprises in which he’s a partner. Antelis was preparing to move his Jira Prod...
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‘Oprah’ vets form New Chapter Entertainment

‘Oprah’ vets form New Chapter Entertainment

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 9, 2012
When The Oprah Winfrey Show ended its 20-year run last year, senior producer Candi Carter says she knew she wanted to continue working with fellow Oprah producer Rick Segall. ...
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Cone’s ‘The Wise Kids’ drama on VOD and DVD
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Cone’s ‘The Wise Kids’ drama on VOD and DVD

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 8, 2012
STEPHEN CONE’S OUTFEST-WINNING DRAMA The Wise Kids, about teens in a youth group in his native South Carolina thoughtfully questioning their Christian faith, will be released ...
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Actor walks 200 miles to get into apocalyptic role
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Actor walks 200 miles to get into apocalyptic role

By Ed M. Koziarski Jul 30, 2012
GEARING UP FOR HIS LEAD role in Stephen Folker’s apocalyptic thriller To Survive, LA-based star Burt Culver is walking 200 miles from his character’s hometown Gary, Indiana ...
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Catfish’s Boyle marks 20 years in commercial music

Catfish’s Boyle marks 20 years in commercial music

By Ed M. Koziarski Jul 30, 2012
Jeff Boyle of Catfish Music in River North remembers Chicago’s thriving commercial scoring business when he started out 20 years ago as a composer and how he has been part of ...
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After 36 years, Weinberg’s Miñoso doc ready to air

After 36 years, Weinberg’s Miñoso doc ready to air

by Ed M. Koziarski Jul 27, 2012
Tom Weinberg says he’s “fast and furiously” completing Baseball Has Been Very, Very Good to Me, his documentary about Minnie Miñoso in hopes for a broadcast on Nov. 29.&n...
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After 4 years, feature doc ‘Skate or Die’ in post
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After 4 years, feature doc ‘Skate or Die’ in post

By Ed M. Koziarski Jul 25, 2012
AFTER FOUR YEARS IN PRODUCTION and 100 hours of footage, director Ryan Ferguson and producer Azam Ahmed are in post-production on the feature documentary Skate or Die.   Th...
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Magnanimous adds digital Blackmagic Design cameras

Magnanimous adds digital Blackmagic Design cameras

By Ed M. Koziarski Jul 17, 2012
In their two years in business, Magnanimous Media has emerged as a lower-cost, scrappy South Side competitor in the Chicago camera rentals scene. Cofounder Craig Maltby says Mag...
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Timely ‘God particle’ doc screens July 16 at Landmark
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Timely ‘God particle’ doc screens July 16 at Landmark

by Ed M. Koziarski Jul 13, 2012
BEFORE SCIENTISTS at the CERN particle accelerator outside Geneva, Switzerland apparently discovered the long-sought Higgs Boson or “God Particle” earlier this month, 137 Fi...
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White House snubbed online winning docmakers
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White House snubbed online winning docmakers

by Ed M. Koziarski Apr 18, 2012
Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano’s video My Asian Americana was passed over for a slot in the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Champio...
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Doc about troubled arts center plays Cultural Center
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Doc about troubled arts center plays Cultural Center

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 9, 2012
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, a documentary by producer/director Kelly Luchtman and coproducer, DP and editor Thomas C. Gaunt, about the troubled history of the Acme Artists Community i...
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April 29 Ebert Fest screens Bhargava’s first feature
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April 29 Ebert Fest screens Bhargava’s first feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 30, 2012
14TH ANNUAL EBERT FEST Ebert Fest in Champaign April 29 will feature Prashant Bhargava’s Patang (The Kite), a family drama about a father and daughter returning to their homet...
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