Jonathan Bross plans a growing Chicago presence for his five-month old production company Velvet Steamroller. The company has a slate of up to six films for next year, at least ...
DePaul University's year-old Digital Cinema Program leaps into the big leagues this summer when a mix of professionals and students from the program will produce a feature film ...
Steve James' new documentary "Reel Paradise" has its world premiere in the 21st Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 20-30 in Park City, Utah."Reel Paradise" will premiere in...
Usama and Kristie Alshaibi were awakened one morning last winter by a massive explosion at a nearby police recruitment site in Baghdad."The explosion was so close it shook t...
Former "Barney Miller" co-star Max Gail will launch an online video series here with an eye toward getting picked up by a TV network.The two-time Emmy nominee has begun splittin...
Scott McLain is doubly committed to bringing the story of Vee-Jay Records to large and small screens. The Los Angeles producer is developing two films, a narrative and a ...
Punk legend John Doe has made a handshake deal to narrate Michelle De Long's documentary "Man's Dominion: The Complexities and Controversies of Animal Law, Animal Welfare ...
Mexican commercial director Julio Dominguez de los Santos is in post on his first feature, the English-, Spanish- and Yiddish-language HD drama "Hopeless" that shot here t...
Hoffman Estates videogame designer High Voltage Software created two major releases this fall for very different audiences, and is working with Warner Bros. on a famous ch...
Dreaming Tree Films continues its combination of heavy-hitting sponsors and teen apprenticeships with a city-funded feature and a major expansion of its Wrigley-financed "...
When filmmaker Phil Donlon shot his short "A Series of Small Things," the follow up to his acclaimed "Wrestled," here last May, he invited assistant Mark Letchumanan to do...
Donius presided over her first IFP Filmmakers Conference Oct. 21-24, featuring an expanded four-day schedule, a higher-profile roster of national figures and attendees fro...
Columbia College production program director Paula Froehle has been awarded IFP/Chicago's $100,000-value Production Fund grant to produce her experimental narrative "Up On...
Three locally-made features screen this month at the Polish Film Festival in America and the Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.The improv film collective Split Pill...
Comcast Cable marshaled its emerging video-on-demand (VOD) platform as part of an integrated, election-themed product launch campaign for Proctor & Gamble's Old Spice Red Zo...
Jeff Garlin kept a 14-year-old promise to Pete Biagi that the local DP would shoot the comedian's debut feature.Garlin, a co-star and executive producer of HBO's "Curb Your Enth...
Man-Sung Son of SMS Productions said the 35mm feature he's producing, "Missed It," could shoot here or in Columbus next January.Director Brian Southers has secured locations...
Record label Sonic Wave International cements its expansion into visual media with the completion of its first documentary, "Ancient India Today," being shopped to the Tra...
Two local feature docs head up an expanded presence for documentaries at the 13th Annual IFP/ Chicago Filmmakers Conference that begins Thursday, Oct. 21."The heightened pr...
As the countdown to the election moves into its final days, Suree Towfighnia and Andrew Piccone are racing to keep their political comedy "Plan B" true to the unfolding re...
