A BENEFIT FOR ANTHONY COLLAMATI'S 2004 IFP/Chicago Production Fund-winning short "The Apologies" will be held Thursday, July 8 at Trace, 3714 N. Clark, from 7 p.m. to midnig...
Documentarian Faith Pennick was talking with her schoolteacher friend about abortion in the context of national elections when her friend made a statement that would set P...
With his horror movie "The Evil One" due out on video from Lion's Gate in August, Parris Reaves is gearing up to return to his DIY roots for a pair of Christian films."The...
Producer/DP Ron Rehana and director Haron Adoni Esho have set themselves a tall order for their debut feature "Poetic Emancipation.""Think 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' as a d...
Robin Peters of production and multimedia company Dreamscape Design is set to direct his sophomore feature in Champaign this July, the thriller "Disconnect" for an under-$...
Regular collaborators Joe Estevez and Robert Z'Dar are starring together in "Drawing Blood," the third feature from Tripod Films, now in production in the west suburbs.Producer ...
Reveling in a sleazy, DIY iconoclasm, for 30 years Lloyd Kaufman has presided over the oldest continuously operating independent production company and distributor: Troma ...
The Chicago animation scene is dominated by commercial broadcast, many top firms being divisions of larger post houses or production companies, like Superior Street's Flux...
A bronze telly went to FIDO Films and Mark McCarville's 19-minute documentary "HMX-1 55th Reunion," a segment of FIDO 's two-hour in-progress doc "Marine One," tracing the...
John Borowski has self-released 1,000 signed and numbered DVDs of his hour-long documentary "H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer." It details the life and exploits...
STANDUP COMIC DARYL MOON wrapped production in early May on his feature directorial debut, the office war satire "The House of Water and Light." "Nicholas Prigge and I st...
STANDUP COMIC DARYL MOON wrapped production in early May on his feature directorial debut, the office war satire "The House of Water and Light." "Nicholas Prigge and I started ...
The filmmakers of Griot Filmworks will return to Chicago for their first major studio production when the MGM film, "Step in the Name of Love," shoots here later this year.Produ...
Glencoe commercial and corporate video company Production House is developing a comedy home makeover TV series that producer Mark Tulloss describes as "Queer Eye for the Straigh...
Filmmakers Hossein Khandan and Shahin Yazdani followed three Chicago women artists through a day in their lives that was like any other, with one exception ? the three women fac...
David Miller of Mindlight Films, who runs the Sangamon St. Studios in the former Orbis facility, is producing "Finding Preet," an HD romantic comedy feature, for IV Enter...
Mike Merrill of N'Site Films will direct his third feature in twelve months this July when he begins production on the $350,000 35mm murder mystery "August." Merrill, who found...
Production company 33 Degrees is poised to open a new one-stop production facility and is on the verge of closing a multi-picture film deal including the sale of their fea...
Drawing on a rich tradition of bluntness and iconoclasm, Chicago is home to a wealth of documentarians, from TV powerhouses like Towers and Kurtis Productions to national theatr...
"Dee Dee Rutherford," the third film from Bob Brown and Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Films, shoots here in June. "Dee Dee" is a comedy about the black sheep of a blue blood family ...
