Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

Director Bill Duke (Sister Act 2, A Rage in Harlem) begins production here the end of January on the pilot for the half-hour sitcom The Blexicans. It will shoot at Cinespace a...

“How do I improve enough to be a great writer?” a college student asks his teacher. “If I knew that, I probably wouldn’t be sitting here,” answers the teacher, playe...

Xan Aranda, who is producing the documentary, Mormon Movie, with Kartemquin Films, spent a week on a 100-acre scenic Vermont farm last month as one of 12 women filmmakers of co...

SHORTS BY 9 LOCAL INDIE FILMMAKERS will screen in the 50th Chicago International Film Festival's “Locally Sourced” program, Saturday Oct. 18 at Cinespace, as part of ...

In these days of increasingly affordable production value and proliferating outlets for episodic content, getting an independently produced series picked up for a TV deal is m...

The great Chicago writer Nelson Algren gets the documentary treatment with not just one but two feature-length projects debuting this month: Mark Blottner and Denis Mueller’...

“I was able to take care of anything, and I mean anything,” Gary Goehl says in a promotional video for Mister Chicago, a film in development based on Goehl’s life.  ...

After two of four free previews of David Holcombe’s Graffito at the Oracle Theatre in Lakeview were cancelled earlier this month over charges of the producer’s “questiona...

It’s not a Se7en prequel, despite what the title might suggest.  But Nicholas Celozzi II, writer/producer of the thriller 6ix, does not hesitate to make the comparison.&...

Media Burn -- the only U.S. organization with its particular mission of preserving and access of independently produced, aristically significant work on videotape – celebrat...

The 50th Annual Chicago International Film Festival, running Oct. 9-23, showcases five locally made features, with docs on Chicago writer Nelson Algren and a photographer chall...

The young man that Lucia Mauro met in St. Peter’s Square in Rome in 2009 wore shoes that didn’t fit and were torn to shreds.  Mauro, a Chicago arts critic, learned th...

Tim Horsburgh, Kartemquin’s director of communications and distribution is working on distribution of Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare’s The Homestretch, which begi...

Chicago filmmakers’ fiction and non-fiction projects will get a boost from Homegrown Chicago, an initiative of the Chicago Media Project, which aims to connect philanthropis...