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Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

MWFF, Chicago Improv co-present Comedic Shorts Night
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MWFF, Chicago Improv co-present Comedic Shorts Night

by Ed M. Koziarski Apr 1, 2013
THE MIDWEST INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL’S annual Comedic Shorts night April 2 is doing something different this year by co-presenting with the Chicago Improv Festival.  MWF...
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Good Pitch Chicago accepts doc submissions April 1

Good Pitch Chicago accepts doc submissions April 1

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 27, 2013
Three years after a trio of social issue documentary leaders agreed on the many advantages of holding an international Good Pitch event here, Good pitch Chicago arrives Tuesday,...
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CIMMfest 5: more music, movies, performances, venues

CIMMfest 5: more music, movies, performances, venues

by Ed M. Koziarski Mar 22, 2013
The Chicago International Movies and Music Festival brings twice the programming at twice the venues when it returns for its fifth year April 18-21 being held at the newly rechr...
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Ch. 9 airs TV producer DuPree’s sports reality pilot
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Ch. 9 airs TV producer DuPree’s sports reality pilot

by Ed M. Koziarski Mar 19, 2013
VETERAN TV PRODUCER DON DUPREE of DuPree Productions is producer of the half-hour pilot A Piece of the Game, a sports reality show presented by Alllstate that’s running five t...
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Canon EOS Cinema line has transformed camera market

Canon EOS Cinema line has transformed camera market

by Ed M. Koziarski Mar 18, 2013
Possibly the biggest game changer in the camera market in the past year is the release of Canon’s EOS Cinema line, which combines the sensors and lenses of DSLRs with the ergo...
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New Film Institute offers hands-on production training

New Film Institute offers hands-on production training

by Ed M. Koziarski Mar 7, 2013
Brent Kado and Emile Cambry, Jr. have set out to bring film education in Chicago a combination of innovation, flexibility and affordability that they say it needs. They’ve lau...
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Pipe Dream intros animatics in “5 days for $5,000”

Pipe Dream intros animatics in “5 days for $5,000”

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 1, 2013
For advertising agencies that need to test ideas fast, Pipe Dreams has introduced a practical and economical solution.  “PD eXpress is ideal for last-minute projects,” ...
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“Emerald City” video for punk band The Tossers album
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“Emerald City” video for punk band The Tossers album

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 28, 2013
ERIC RICHTER, Victory Records’ in-house video producer, has a new video for The Tossers’ “Emerald City,” the title track off the Gaelic punk band’s new album.&nbs...
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Onion YouTube channel picks up “Teachers” comedy series

Onion YouTube channel picks up “Teachers” comedy series

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 26, 2013
The Onion YouTube channel has begun running episodes of Teachers, the comedy web series from director Matt Miller and the writer/performers of improv collective The Katydids. St...
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Thomas’ animated feature from play in development
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Thomas’ animated feature from play in development

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2013
CHERYL THOMAS is the writer and executive producer of the in-development animated feature Elv-olution, adapted from her own play, which ran in December at the Greenhou...
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CUFF’s 20th season March 6-10 at the Logan Theatre
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CUFF’s 20th season March 6-10 at the Logan Theatre

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 13, 2013
“The festival or me personally?” Chicago Underground Film Festival programmer and artistic director Bryan Wendorf retorts when asked if he expected to be around this long.Re...
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Bertha Palmer a Ch. 11 Women’s History Month doc

Bertha Palmer a Ch. 11 Women’s History Month doc

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 8, 2013
Amelia Dellos’ documentary Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha & Potter Palmer, will have its broadcast premiere March 24 over Ch. 11 at 5:30 p.m. as part of the station...
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James starts doc production on Roger Ebert’s memoir

James starts doc production on Roger Ebert’s memoir

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 5, 2013
Steve James’s Kartemquin Films coproduction Life Itself about Roger Ebert is two months into production and on its way to a 2014 broadcast by CNN Films, in a deal announc...
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MWFF 2013 season opens with Looby’s ‘Be Good’ feature
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MWFF 2013 season opens with Looby’s ‘Be Good’ feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 1, 2013
TODD LOOBY’S FEATURE BE GOOD opens Midwest Independent Film Festival’s 2013 season Feb. 5.  The Chicago-made indie, written and directed by Looby, stars Amy Seimetz (of...
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Busy first year for Coat of Arms’ Lacocque and Lehmann

Busy first year for Coat of Arms’ Lacocque and Lehmann

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 1, 2013
Over six-weeks in August and September, Coat of Arms provided editing, sound design, mix, music composition, color correction and delivery on two The Onion shows. They were...
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2012 shoot days of 1,808 up 45% over previous year

2012 shoot days of 1,808 up 45% over previous year

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 28, 2013
Chicago production had its busiest year ever in 2012.  A total of 406 total projects across all visual media shot 1,808 days.  This is up 45%, when 391 projects shot 1...
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Cooper’s ‘The Painter’ adds voice to child violence
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Cooper’s ‘The Painter’ adds voice to child violence

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 22, 2013
DIRECTOR KEVIN COOPER of Amarok Productions, who directed the family dog film I Heart Shakey, arguably the first stereoscopic 3D feature made in Chicago, tackles the tough ...
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‘You Don’t Know Jack’ wins Spike social game award

‘You Don’t Know Jack’ wins Spike social game award

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 10, 2013
Even Jellyvision Games staff were surprised when the Facebook version of their long-running trivia game You Don’t Know Jack won in the new Social Game of the Year category at ...
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Sinnotts rebrand company; host CoffeeCON II next May

Sinnotts rebrand company; host CoffeeCON II next May

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 4, 2013
Kevin and Patricia Sinnott of Warrenville-based production company Sinnott Productions are gearing up for next spring’s year two of CoffeeCON, which they bill as the first cof...
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New Canon EOS cameras, CN-E lenses at Magnanimous

New Canon EOS cameras, CN-E lenses at Magnanimous

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 3, 2013
With new acquisitions in late November, Magnanimous Media now offers the full line of Canon’s Cinema EOS cameras and CN-E prime lenses. Magnanimous has offered the C300, the f...
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