Out-Write Media this month will deliver to WTTW the seven-episode first season of its national PBS bicycle travel series Pedal America, edited by Luminair’s Annie Speicher and...
After just six months VP and managing director of Protokulture, Jim Olen left the design, post, and production firm Dec. 16. Olen explains his departure this way: “When you wo...
Here for the sixth consecutive year is ReelChicago’s exclusive and roundup of entertainment and commercial production activity for the previous year, based on official Chicago...
ACTOR MICHAEL SHANNON’S manager Byron Wetzel has optioned Jim Sikora’s script for I’ll Die Tomorrow as a star vehicle for the Boardwalk Empire villain, Oscar nominee and s...
Since their soft launch three months ago, Go Locations Services and Go Rentals has serviced Shameless, The Playboy Club, Man of Steel, and more than 50 commercials in Illinois, ...
The Reel welcomes back longtime contributing editor Ed Koziarski after six months in post earthquake Japan producing a documentary. (See Uncanny Terrain below.) IND...
JUNKO KAJINO and I are headed to northern Japan this spring to begin production on our new documentary, Uncanny Terrain, through Homesick Blues Productions.We will follow organi...
Responding to growth in social and family gaming for consoles, and in mobile games, Jellyvision Games released new versions of its cheeky game show-style trivia game, You Don’...
Lance Catania was one day into the Michigan production of his psychological thriller Cables last fall when he made what he calls “the toughest decision I’ve ever made.“I s...
When Tamale, an interdisciplinary artist and comedian, invited filmmakers C. Bryne and Nadia Oussenko to document her bid for the crown in the 25th annual International Ms. Leat...
MANY HOLLYWOOD AND LOCAL EXPERTS will lead seminars and panels May 7 during the Sundance Institute’s ShortsLab:Chicago at Columbia College, showing how filmmakers can show and...
In his new, $400,000 in-progress documentary, Parallax Sounds, Augusto Contento explores the influence of Chicago’s landscape on six musicians who started out in the ‘90s he...
Nathan Adloff begins production this May on his second feature film as director, the bittersweet comedy Nate & Margaret, starring Ashley Fink (Glee) and Natalie West (Rosean...
Jonathan Cohon has been getting a lot of mileage out of his recently acquired Panasonic AF100. He has completed corporate and narrative projects shot on the 4/3 sensor HD camcor...
THIRTY FILMS BY CHICAGO CREW MEMBERS are featured on Industry Night, April 16, in the 6th annual MoFest festival and party, and features, The Beekeeper, by filmmaker Sean J...
The emphasis of the April 1-14 Chicago Latino International Film Festival “is on new talent, with more than 20 features made by first time directors,” says Pepe Vargas, foun...
“A real-life ‘Hurt Locker’ with more tension” is the reaction audiences have had to “A Perfect Soldier,” says producer/editor Jonathan Lacocque of the documentary h...
Columbia College Chicago is one of two sites nationwide, along with the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, for the new YouTube Creator Institute.The pro...
IN ITS ONLINE RELEASE, director Eddie O’Keefe’s short film, The Ghosts, garnered 30,000 hits in two weeks. It’s a dreamy, black and white, rock-infused ‘50s-style tale o...
Mike Diedrich was videotaping outside a Cubs-Pirates game in 2004 when there were two home runs in the first inning. “There were four or five ballhawks out there,” Die...