Donnie Eichar interviewed former U.S. senator Paul Simon last December to mark the opening of the Jeanne and Paul Simon Braille Book Collection at the Skokie Public Librar...
With their debut feature in post-production with the Simmons Lathan Media Group, the filmmakers of "Player in Training" are gearing up for their next production, "Caged."N...
At a Salvation Army in Los Angeles' gritty Nickel District, local production designer Wesley Tabayoyong interviewed more than 30 homeless people about the contents of thei...
Richard T. Celenza Jr. grew up in a family of gamblers. As a young man he ran small-time card games and worked as a bookie "before the Internet took over the industry," h...
Armed with a shoestring budget, a 24P DV camera and a vision of the world's end, Nathyn Brendan Masters is out to make a Christian, low-budget answer to "The Matrix."The stone-f...
Catherine Crouch is set to follow up her debut feature, "Stray Dogs," with the lesbian military drama "Half Life."Set during the first Gulf War, "Half Life" is a love stor...
Well into development on their second major game release, Studio Gigante ? the former "Mortal Kombat" development team ? moved to 13,000-sq. ft. space at 4621 N. Ravenswood, tri...
After a year's hiatus, Terra Nova's X Silver Images Film Festival returns as a streamlined Silver Images Film and Video Awards March 3 at the Chicago Cultural Center.For a decad...
New Theater Collective's expansion into film is in full swing, with two projects in production.Natalie Berning's DV feature "Equinox" shoots weekends in Wisconsin from now thro...
Handheld Films is breaking from principal photography on its $500,000 sci-fi thriller "Lost Girls" to shop the work in progress at the American Film Market held in L.A. this m...
Producer Steven A. Jones threatened to throw the negative of John McNaughton's horror movie "The Borrower" into the river to force the bond company to pay the back wages owed to...
Seven women have set out to accomplish what it took 14 men to do before.The Women's Cliffhanger Project is a more streamlined, structured version of the improvisational filmmaki...
Visions of Light's Joe Farris took a major risk last summer when he decided to buy how own camera package. He got a $150,000 loan with the Small Business Administration just b...
Freelance editor Ryan Koscielniak has a plan to turn his passion for travel into a concept he can sell to television. Through his RyBred Films, he is producing the TV pilot "24...
Radio Ridge Productions is gearing up for a year of growth to follow up several major expansions in the past year."We're in the midst of a major drive toward new business develo...
The new Sloppy Seconds screening series from the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) kicks off Feb. 4 with Todd Verow's pioneering digital feature "Little Shots of Happines...
Director Michael Ojeda (left) and producer Joel Goodman will attend the Feb. 27 world theatrical premiere of "Lana's Rain" at the Music Box."Lana's Rain" star Oksana Orlenko wo...
He sold the farm to cover film costs and mortgaged his house to pay for postproduction, but John Swanson has made his movie ? a self-financed, under-$100,000 horror flick.The fi...
Epiphany Pictures got a boost in the long development of their dream project "Sweet Home Chicago" with the signing of new 4th Row Films of New York to co-produce the featu...
Xan Aranda recalls the "sad thrill" of seeing short films she loved at Sundance and other festivals."The life of a short film can be so fleeting," she said. "I wanted to be...
