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Columnist: Lori Rotenberk

Brett Dalton stars in Jenkins’ first Harvest feature

Brett Dalton stars in Jenkins’ first Harvest feature

By Lori Rotenberk Oct 4, 2015
Brett Dalton (“Agents of SHIELD”) has the title role in “The Resurrection of Gavin Stone,” director Dallas Jenkins's first feature for Harvest Bible Chapel’s Vert...
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CIFF intros Industry Days during Oct. 15-29 festival

CIFF intros Industry Days during Oct. 15-29 festival

By Lori Rotenberk Aug 13, 2015
For the first time in its half-century history, the Chicago International Film Festival is going beyond its general audience screenings with what CIFF founder/artistic director...
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Film pros set to make Chicago a ‘home grown film hub’

Film pros set to make Chicago a ‘home grown film hub’

By Lori Rotenberk Jul 10, 2015
GripWrite Productions partners, key grip Danial Miller and writer Timothy Morgan, are producing their first film, “The Casket,” a dramatic 27-minute short, the first of th...
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Lubeck’s class assignment film wins top BAFTA prize

Lubeck’s class assignment film wins top BAFTA prize

By Lori Rotenberk Jul 8, 2015
A joyously narrated and illustrated tribute to honor the life of her dog, Lucy, garnered DePaul University graduate student Zoe Lubeck the top U.S. Student Film award at the r...
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Mellencamp work assures Hauser is alive & well

Mellencamp work assures Hauser is alive & well

By Lori Rotenberk Jun 10, 2015
Marc Hauser, the iconic Chicago photographer who brought portraiture and and compelling black and white photography to the fore in print advertising, says he’s back and doin...
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New board sets goals to expand IFP service to indies

New board sets goals to expand IFP service to indies

By Lori Rotenberk Apr 27, 2015
The Independent Filmmakers Project Chicago's (IFP) first new logo in 17 years signifies “a revamping of our image to portray who we are and where we’re going,” says IFP b...
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Sommer’s doc focuses on Illinois organic farm family
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Sommer’s doc focuses on Illinois organic farm family

By Lori Rotenberk Apr 23, 2015
Beginning last September, award-winning documentarian Ines Sommer of Sommer Filmworks, kept farmers’ grueling dawn-to-dusk hours filming a farming family on their 12-acre org...
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Mensch’s indie drama with David Oyelowo airs on HBO

Mensch’s indie drama with David Oyelowo airs on HBO

By Lori Rotenberk Apr 5, 2015
On a lark in February, 2013, Frederick Mensch, who runs MovieBytes, a market resource for screenwriters, posted his own one man dramatic screenplay, “Nightingale,” on Blac...
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