After Pakistani immigrant Shahpara Sayeed was burned to death by her husband in his cab on the North Side of Chicago on Aug. 24, 2000, filmmaker Satish Menon was struck by...
DVD content developers Sock Puppet Studios have launched their first original brand with "The Doodlebugs," a half-hour animated educational series targeted for children ages 2-6...
Former comedian Dave Grier has started production on "Bill's Meeting," a 13-episode talk show series hosted by former Frank Sinatra lead trombonist Bill Porter.Grier, form...
Local underground auteur James Fotopoulos screens his suburban gothic feature "The Nest" in its Chicago debut at the Chicago Underground Film Festival Aug. 22.Fotopoulos continu...
Ytasha Womack, a writer and producer of Sean Long's recently released Xenon Entertainment documentary "Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake?" will screen her narrative debut for Chicago ...
Jerry Bryant, who produced one of the first local HD shoots for a Blink-182 performance on his "JBTV" series a few years back, is in the midst of fully upgrading his River North...
Chicago is going to be the next place for hip-hop, predicted director Yusef Hood, whose hip-hop DVD documentary "State2daLake" was just released and his South Side Hood Films is...
Elizabeth Donius is two months into her job as IFP/ Chicago executive director, the first full-time director in at least 10 years, and she's excited about enlarging the 400...
KYLE HARRIS of Liberty Movies shoots the first third of his experimental narrative feature "The Patriarchs" Aug. 7-25. The first section follows a romance between an olde...
Less than a year after founding his full-service production company Bird's-Eye Media Inc., Mark A. Besozzi has a TV series and two features lined up for summer and fall. ...
Half a year after leaving Bucktown Pictures, independent producer Leigh Jones is keeping a high profile with five films and an educational video series in various stages o...
Patrick Read Johnson starts production in late August on his autobiographical coming of age story "5-25-77," set on the day "Star Wars" was released.Joe Pantoliano and Carri...
Minnesota filmmaker and Columbia College alumnus Steven J. Foley is returning to his native Chicago for the local premiere of his debut feature, the HD-cam romance "Strang...
The Film Center's Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video marks its tenth year Aug. 7- 19 with an unprecedented six local productions making their Chicago de...
Parris Reeves' horror feature "The Evil One," financed by Florida's Maverick/Breakaway and due for video release in August from Lion's Gate, has its world premiere July 16-17 at...
Hundreds of scripts and works in progress will be represented in the second Indiefest Film Festival and Market July 30-Aug. 9, the only film market in the Midwest. This year's ...
It was 25 years ago July 12 that then-WLUP-FM DJ Steve Dahl helped seal the fate of the disco craze when he staged his notorious "Disco Demolition," exploding a crate of d...
"Monsters and superheroes" are the rage at this year's Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival, according to fest coordinator Willy Laszlo. "Each and every year ther...
Ch. 20 editor Ricardo Islas continues his string of Hammer Films-inspired low-budget horror pictures when he shoots his lesbian vampire thriller this August. "Night Fan...
It's a big summer for Mark Harris. After writing several unproduced scripts for hire, his directing debut "Why Men Cheat" is in post-production at Day For Night Film in V...
