Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

ANTHOLOGY FILM DEAD GIRLS  that was made on a micro-budget, shot over four weekends with a cast of 70 union and non union actors, has gone from script to distribution ...

FOUNDER BRENDA WEBB is back at the helm of Reeling: Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, after she took it on hiatus in 2012 to retool and focus on development work, whic...

OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMMAKER Tod Lending’s documentary, All the Difference, five years in the making, has received a $1.1 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcast...

WRITER/DIRECTOR YONY LEYSER, whose 2010 debut feature documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within was released by Oscilloscope Pictures and broadcast nationally on PBS, is m...

WRITER/DIRECTOR DANIEL NEARING’S murder mystery, Hogtown, with a multi-racial cast of 70, filmed in black-and-white and set in post WWI Chicago, premieres at the Gene Siskel...

JULIAN GRANT (Sweet Leaf) wrote and is directing Finding Hope, a drama about a man fighting to win back his wife after a tragic accident, produced by Two 9 Productions and curr...

TWELVE WORTHY FILMMAKERS were awarded $100,000 in grants from The Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, in amounts ranging from $3,850 to $10,000, for projects designed to adv...

AWARD-WINNING WRITER/DIRECTOR  STEPHEN CONE (The Wise Kids) returns to his coming-of-age territory with his latest feature Black Box, which starts its theatrical run May 3...