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Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

Historic Potter Palmers head Corn Bred’s film slate

Historic Potter Palmers head Corn Bred’s film slate

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 9, 2011
A feature and a documentary about socialite Bertha Honoré and real estate developer Potter Palmer will be the first projects for River Forest husband-wife Eric Anderson and Ame...
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Keefe produces fridaynitebYtes web comedy series
  • Indie Focus

Keefe produces fridaynitebYtes web comedy series

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 8, 2011
JOE KEEFE of Long Tail Media Group is producing fridaynitebYtes,  a streaming comedy sketch series targeted to tween-and-teen internet users. The members contribute their s...
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Comedy web portal series on tap
  • Indie Focus

Comedy web portal series on tap

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 3, 2011
A COMEDY WEB PORTAL called “Fooblik” is being built by Kamath “Kayenn” Nilesh of Argeli Vicar. The production team is producing the series “Fooblik News Network” and...
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WME packaging 11Eleven’s remake of “Doberman Gang”

WME packaging 11Eleven’s remake of “Doberman Gang”

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 1, 2011
WME is packaging two of the several projects that local producer Darren Reagan is developing through his 11Eleven Entertainment.The agency is onboard for Reagan and “Dog Whisp...
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Steve Hiller, shooting in India, goes to Viet Nam to film doc
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Steve Hiller, shooting in India, goes to Viet Nam to film doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 25, 2011
STEVEN HILLER of Hesperus Films is shooting Rachel Cook’s Microlending Film: A Documentary About Enterprising Women in India and Bangladesh this month.  They filmed in Pa...
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Bleedout first episodic MMO video game with major weekly updates

Bleedout first episodic MMO video game with major weekly updates

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 23, 2011
The final episode of the massively multi-player online game (MMO) CrimeCraft: Bleedout, will be released March 5 by Vogster Entertainment.  It’s the first MMO to offer ma...
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US warship the base for documenting Project Hope medical aid mission

US warship the base for documenting Project Hope medical aid mission

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 22, 2011
Pasquale Iannino of Rockit Projects spent three weeks in October and November living aboard amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima and flying daily into the South American countries Gu...
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Two companies combine with a Mighty good idea

Two companies combine with a Mighty good idea

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2011
Backyard Productions and Optimus are sharing their mighty resources in a newly formed “creative production home,” operating autonomously out of Backyard’s Venice, Californ...
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SkyPan Int’l shoots 1400’ liftoff for Willis Tower Skydeck

SkyPan Int’l shoots 1400’ liftoff for Willis Tower Skydeck

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2011
Aerial photographers branching out from core business in real estateVisitors to the Willis Tower Skydeck are presented with the opportunity to experience their 1400’ elevation...
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Jim Sikora feature “The Critics,” 12 years in the making

Jim Sikora feature “The Critics,” 12 years in the making

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2011
Twelve years after Jim Sikora shot his film adaptation of Adam Langer’s play “The Critics,” the caustic satire of theatre and the people who cover it finally sees the ligh...
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Worthy local indies to screen at worldwide film festivals
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Worthy local indies to screen at worldwide film festivals

by Ed M. Koziarski Feb 15, 2011
STEPHEN CONE’S DRAMA, “In Memoriam” will compete with 65 films when it premieres at the 33rd Big Muddy Film Festival, Feb. 18-27 at SIU in Carbondale, one of the oldest fe...
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Doc challenges Christian homophobia

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 9, 2011
Sons of evangelical missionaries in Indonesia and Latin America, respectively, Andrew Freer and Samuel Díaz-Littauer grew believing “homosexuality was one of the ‘really ba...
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Business booming for 10 year old Bitter Jester

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 9, 2011
As Bitter Jester Creative celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Highland Park production company has rebounded from a tough year, with a major new client, a TV pilot in the can, ...
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Little Cabin involved in big projects

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 9, 2011
A year and a half in business, corporate producers Little Cabin Films have added Garrett Popcorn to a growing stable of educational, real estate and fitness clients.“We’re j...
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Theatrical run set for “Blackmail Boys”

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 9, 2011
Joe Swanbert has a role in pseudonymous Bernard and Bichard Shumanski’s locally-shot “tender sexploitation flick,” “Blackmail Boys.” TLA Releasing picked it up for the...
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New web series on success entrepreneurship

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 1, 2011
This winter, Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions is rolling out the 24-episode entrepreneurship web series, “Trep Life,” which he says offers a “unique, ...
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Kalamazoo stands in for Eastern college town

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 24, 2011
A scene from Fine’s “Cherry” THE 2011 SEASON of the Midwest Independent Film Festival kicks off Feb. 1 with the dramedy “Cherry,” for which Jeffrey Fine put his suc...
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Michigan’s film incentives in jeopardy

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 28, 2010
Michigan's film tax incentives, arguably the most aggressive of any state, are definitely in trouble under the administration of Republican Governor-elect Rick Snyder. What's n...
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Top L.A. production exec joins TicTock Studios
to help advance Michigan’s film industry

By Ed M. Koziarski Mar 3, 2008
TicTock Studios of Holland, Michigan is en route to becoming Michigan's leading production company, with a feature by a major screenwriter in the works, and the addition of a to...
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“Crime Fiction” gains traction with 5-year DVD
and online distribution deal with Anthem Pictures

By Ed M. Koziarski Feb 21, 2008
Chicago-made thriller, "Crime Fiction," is in distribution on DVD and online through a five-year deal signed with Anthem Pictures of Agoura Hills, Cal. that includes an initial ...
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