Skip to content
| Reel Chicago – At the intersection of Chicago Advertising, Entertainment, Media and Production

| Reel Chicago – At the intersection of Chicago Advertising, Entertainment, Media and Production

Reel Chicago is a daily digital magazine that covers the news in Chicago on all aspects of advertising, film, TV, media and production. The content is original, written by industry experts and contributing Op Eds

  • REEL PRO
    • CASTING
    • REEL INSIDER
  • PRODUCTION CENTRAL
    • ONE CHICAGO
    • TV
    • FILM
    • Reel Indie
    • Behind The Scenes
    • POST
    • podcast series
    • SPOTLIGHT
    • SOCIAL MEDIA
    • APPS
    • AUDIO
  • ADVERTISING
    • Reel Ad of the Week
    • NEW WORK
    • REEL BUSINESS
    • AWARDS
    • ACCOUNT WINS
    • Super Bowl
  • People
    • Reel People
    • REEL MOVES
    • REEL WOMEN
    • THE REEL BLACK LIST
    • REEL LATINO
    • Reel Pride
    • POV
    • CELEBRITY
    • REEL INTERVIEWS
    • In memoriam
  • Events
    • FESTIVALS
  • CITY NEWS
  • Log In

Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

Talking Pictures Festival place for many local films

Talking Pictures Festival place for many local films

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 29, 2012
Talking Pictures Festival founding directors Ines Sommer and Kathy Berger of Percolator Films are documentarians themselves. Their Beneath the Blindfold, about local and interna...
More »
TeamWorks’ Globetrotter doc bows on ESPN 2/26

TeamWorks’ Globetrotter doc bows on ESPN 2/26

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 24, 2012
Harlem Globetrotters owner Mannie Jackson is on a mission: to raise the historic profile of Reece “Goose” Tatum, a star for the team in the 40s and 50s and a trailblazing sp...
More »
Party launches Evanston’s Talking Pictures Fest
  • Indie Focus

Party launches Evanston’s Talking Pictures Fest

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 23, 2012
A PRE-FEST PARTY Feb. 23 launches Percolator Films’ 4th annual Talking Pictures Festival from 7-10 p.m. at the Hilton Orrington Hotel’s Indigo Lounge, 1710 Orrington Avenue ...
More »
‘A holiday movie gays can call their own’ films in May

‘A holiday movie gays can call their own’ films in May

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 21, 2012
There was something Windy City Times’ film critic Richard Knight, Jr. had never seen before in Thomas Bezucha’s 2005 holiday comedy The Family Stone.  “This was the f...
More »
Prestin, Menet’s John Wayne Gacy doc based on new book

Prestin, Menet’s John Wayne Gacy doc based on new book

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 17, 2012
Marc Menet’s father was friends with Gregory Godzik at Taft High School in Norwood Park before Godzik disappeared in 1976.  Godzik’s body was found two years later amon...
More »
June Finfer directs doc about Cook County hospital

June Finfer directs doc about Cook County hospital

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 16, 2012
Award-winning playwright and filmmaker June Finfer, acclaimed for her documentaries on Chicago subjects, is writing and will direct a feature length documentary about Cook Count...
More »
Videographer produced inspirational doc about fighter
  • Indie Focus

Videographer produced inspirational doc about fighter

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 9, 2012
A FORMER GOLDEN GLOVES middleweight boxing champion is the subject of “Fearless Fernando Hernandez: A Fighter’s Journey,” a 30-minute tragedy-to-triumph documentary made i...
More »
Local AFTRA-SAG members to benefit from merger

Local AFTRA-SAG members to benefit from merger

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 1, 2012
A combined total of 190,000 members of Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists will vote on the merger of the two major talent unions a...
More »
Alex Beh makes his feature debut with “Warren”
  • Indie Focus

Alex Beh makes his feature debut with “Warren”

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 31, 2012
L.A. BASED ORIAN WILLIAMS, who produced the Joy Division biopic Control, has signed on to produce Winnetka native actor/director Alex Beh’s feature directorial debut, the comi...
More »
Canon debuts C300, its first cinema camera, to Chicago

Canon debuts C300, its first cinema camera, to Chicago

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 27, 2012
Canon reps Ed Meyers and Tim Smith unveiled the EOS C300, touted as the company’s first bona fide cinema camera, in its Chicago debut Jan. 26 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. M...
More »
Fest premiere of Joffrey doc simulcasts to 40 theaters

Fest premiere of Joffrey doc simulcasts to 40 theaters

by Ed M. Koziarski Jan 23, 2012
In a first-ever event of its kind, writer/director Bob Hercules’ documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance will be simulcast to more than 40 theaters on the second nigh...
More »
Corn Bred sets debut with $35,000 horror comedy
  • Indie Focus

Corn Bred sets debut with $35,000 horror comedy

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 17, 2012
Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos launched their production company Corn Bred Films last March “with the goal of establishing a film studio in the Midwest dedicated to finding a...
More »
Econony gets boost with 20% live theatre tax credit
  • Curtain Calls

Econony gets boost with 20% live theatre tax credit

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 12, 2012
Illinois’ new Live Theater Production Tax Credit will put stage production on par with the benefits that film and TV received from the production tax credit, says Deb Clapp, e...
More »
Siskel/Jacob’s acclaimed doc has TV premiere on OWN
  • Indie Focus

Siskel/Jacob’s acclaimed doc has TV premiere on OWN

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 10, 2012
SISKEL/JACOBS PRODUCTIONS’  documentary Louder Than a Bomb, about the local high school slam poetry competition, had its broadcast premiere Jan. 5 on OWN.  The doc i...
More »
PBS Cycling series ‘Pedal America’ debuts in May

PBS Cycling series ‘Pedal America’ debuts in May

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 6, 2012
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...
More »
Olen and Protokulture part company after six months

Olen and Protokulture part company after six months

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 4, 2012
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...
More »
In 2011, TV activity up 30%, spots 60%, features flat

In 2011, TV activity up 30%, spots 60%, features flat

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 4, 2012
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...
More »
Michael Shannon set to star in Jim Sikora’s feature
  • Indie Focus

Michael Shannon set to star in Jim Sikora’s feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Dec 31, 2011
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...
More »
Soft launch successful for Go Locations’ green operation

Soft launch successful for Go Locations’ green operation

By Ed M. Koziarski Dec 12, 2011
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, ...
More »
Grant’s sing-along feature is based on crime noir
  • Indie Focus

Grant’s sing-along feature is based on crime noir

By Ed M. Koziarski Dec 11, 2011
The Reel welcomes back longtime contributing editor Ed Koziarski after six months in post earthquake Japan producing a documentary.  (See Uncanny Terrain below.)  IND...
More »

Posts navigation

« Prev Page 1 … Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 … Page 20 Next »
REEL 360
  • About
  • Classified
  • Advertise
  • SUBMIT YOUR NEWS
  • CONTACT US
  • Search
ReelChicago.com Copyright © 2022. All rights reserved.