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Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

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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Sketch Fest director launches Women’s Funny Festival

Sketch Fest director launches Women’s Funny Festival

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 27, 2012
In her decade as executive director of the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, and years more performing with and managing the Cupid Players, Jill Valentine has seen a steady rise i...
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Wexler wraps ‘Roundabout American’ comedy feature
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Wexler wraps ‘Roundabout American’ comedy feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 22, 2012
WRITER/DIRECTOR BORIS WEXLER of Escape Films has wrapped postproduction on the feature comedy Roundabout American starring French actor Edouard Giard as a young French chef who ...
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VH1’s ‘Mob Wives Chicago’ gets set for June premiere

VH1’s ‘Mob Wives Chicago’ gets set for June premiere

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 21, 2012
Soon after her VH1 reality hit Mob Wives concluded its first season last summer, executive producer Jennifer Graziano began looking for a way to extend the brand. “I wanted to...
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3 talented female filmmakers topline new WIF series
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3 talented female filmmakers topline new WIF series

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 14, 2012
WOMEN IN FILM CHICAGO’S new screening series, “Emerging Talent: Females in Focus,” launches March 19 with films by Mary Kay Cook, Grace McPhillips and Anna Jung. A cocktai...
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‘Wedding Crashers’ writer sued over pilot script

‘Wedding Crashers’ writer sued over pilot script

by Ed M. Koziarski Mar 13, 2012
What Imran Mukati wanted from Wedding Crashers writer Steve Faber was the script for a TV pilot: a “Sex and the City for guys” inspired by the dating experiences of Mukati a...
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Celozzi’s Sam Giancana doc bows Saturday at Siskel

Celozzi’s Sam Giancana doc bows Saturday at Siskel

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 6, 2012
“To me he was an uncle,” Nicholas Celozzi says about Sam Giancana -— his great uncle, actually.  “He was a generous man, took care of all his family and a had great...
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Daniel J. Travanti stars in feature development short

Daniel J. Travanti stars in feature development short

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 29, 2012
An old man that he saw reading The Odyssey in a café set the ball rolling for Richard Cohen.  “It was, for me, a striking image,” Cohen says.  “The rest just ca...
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