Joe Swanbert has a role in pseudonymous Bernard and Bichard Shumanski’s locally-shot “tender sexploitation flick,” “Blackmail Boys.” TLA Releasing picked it up for the...
This winter, Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions is rolling out the 24-episode entrepreneurship web series, “Trep Life,” which he says offers a “unique, ...
A scene from Fine’s “Cherry” THE 2011 SEASON of the Midwest Independent Film Festival kicks off Feb. 1 with the dramedy “Cherry,” for which Jeffrey Fine put his suc...
Michigan's film tax incentives, arguably the most aggressive of any state, are definitely in trouble under the administration of Republican Governor-elect Rick Snyder. What's n...
TicTock Studios of Holland, Michigan is en route to becoming Michigan's leading production company, with a feature by a major screenwriter in the works, and the addition of a to...
Chicago-made thriller, "Crime Fiction," is in distribution on DVD and online through a five-year deal signed with Anthem Pictures of Agoura Hills, Cal. that includes an initial ...
The 5th annual Lake County Film Festival continues its steady growth this year to 17 narrative features, 17 documentary features and 100-plus short films.The festival, Feb. 28 ...
Joe Swanberg makes history when the South by Southwest Film Festival premieres his fourth feature in a row ? "Nights and Weekends" -- March 9.He won't have much time to promote ...
DEREK "PRETTY BOY" DOW'S debut feature "Family Values" returns to the Gene Siskel Film Center for a special screening presented by the Museum of Science and Industry, as part of...
River West Films premieres their romantic-mob-comedy "Osso Bucco" at the Midwest Independent Film Festival on Feb. 5, followed by a theatrical self-release beginning Feb. 8 at t...
FILIP RYMSZA of M31 Films has wrapped production on his sophomore feature, the surreal HD drama "Dustclouds," the second part of the diptych that includes last year's DV "Sandca...
ERNIE HUDSON ("Oz," "Ghostbusters") stars in Phil Donlon's racially charged dramatic short "The Man in the Silo," which shoots in Los Angeles and Downstate Illinois in September...
JULIA LING, who guested on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," has signed to play the lead role in Nathyn Masters' Hong Kong-style martial arts pic "Silvergun Samurai," slated to shoot ...
When Resolution Digital Studios opens the doors to its $7.5 million facility this April, Chicago will have?for the first time ever?a brand new, from the ground up stage comp...
After five years as Chicago Community Cinema, the monthly screening/networking event is reinventing itself as the Midwest Independent Film Festival. "It's time to take it...
Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos are out to prove that America isn't as divided as it's made out to be.The husband-wife filmmaking team are poised to embark on a Midwest tour, in...
Fresh off Jeff Garlin's feature debut and the season premiere of CBS' "The Amazing Race," Misty Tosh of Fatcake Productions is on her way to Baja, Mexico to produce a pilo...
It was five days before Richard Dresser's play "Wonderful World" would open at the Athenaeum Theatre, and director Paul Cotter had the day off.It was Sunday, Aug. 15 and Cotter ...
Taproot Productions' bullfighting documentary "The Bulls of Suburbia" has charged its way through the festival circuit this year, drawing broadcaster interest at the Santa...
Jonathan Bross plans a growing Chicago presence for his five-month old production company Velvet Steamroller. The company has a slate of up to six films for next year, at least ...