Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

Monika Szewerniak spent a week working at a local modeling agency that she said gave their clients false expectations to scam them out of fees."The amount of people they tak...

Looking for a stage? How big? Where do you want to shoot? To help you make that determination, ReelChicago scouted around to identify a surprisingly large list of 38 st...

Movieside Film Festival organizer Rusty Nails launches the video release of his debut feature "Acne" with a screening of the film May 15 at Movieside, which also features ...

Jon Ross has the church to thank for the chance to produce and star in a 35mm feature film from his own script, "Love's Curves."Since January, Ross and co- producer John Ro...

Steve Ordower has a big idea to pay tribute to the legacy of his father, TV pioneer and civil rights activist Sid Ordower. He is developing a seven-part, high-end gospel...

From the success of his recent Bailiwick Arts Center production "R3," Mark Vadik has seen no less than three major opportunities to move from theater into film and televis...

Roberto Blanchard is rolling out the first of a three- film slate May 1 when he premieres his family baseball drama "The Magic of Summer" at the Burnham Plaza Theater.Write...

Barely a year after its move into commercial music, Matteson-based GameBeat Studios picked up a Silver Addy last March from the Madison Ad Federation (MAF) for a theme for...

A giant of the B-movie, Jack Hill, who started his career in the early '60s at Roger Corman's legendary American International Pictures, will be in town May 14 to guest-ho...

Rap superstar Nas stars in director Carl Seaton's $300,000 feature, "Sacred," that headlines the 3rd annual Visions Blu Symposium April 24. It sceens with a selection of...

As part of an ongoing effort to assure that minorities get a fair share of the work expected to be stimulated by the Illinois Film Tax Credit, the Illinois Film Office is ...

By Ed M. Koziarski Even as 2003 saw the lowest level of Hollywood expenditures in Chicago in years, one sector of local production seems to have remained firmly recession- ...

Alex LeMay was well into production on his feature doc "The Bulls of Suburbia" when he got the call from Universal Pictures. "They asked if we had any bullfighting footage th...

Chicago boasts one of the biggest and most vibrant independent film scenes in America, in terms of both production and outlets. To prove the point, Chicago is experienci...

Mark Armstrong has gone through three versions, two directors and a manager in the evolution of his "epic gothic hip-hop farce" "Chickenhead Bound."It started in 1999 as a skit ...

Waukegan commercial house Glasshouse Entertainment have moved into their new Chicago office and set up shop to begin production on their first feature film, "Throwing Stones.""T...

The third feature film from independent production company Urban Pictures premieres April 1 at Inner City Entertainment's Lawndale Theater.Devin Wesley stars as a former cop wh...

With documentaries gaining in interest with both filmmakers and the public, the April 1-11 2nd annual Chicago International Documentary Festival should handily achieve its goal ...

Two local freelance editors who opened their own full-service post house last month are already seeing client demand rising to fill the capacity of their single Avid Adrenaline ...

Juan Frausto finally has his foot in the Hollywood door. His third film, "Once Upon a Time in the Hood," plays in the 20th Annual Chicago Latino International Film Festival. T...