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Events

FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Fest

By Reel Chicago Oct 15, 2021

FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), one of only two Academy Award qualifying international children’s film festivals in the worl...

Behind The Scenes

Behind the Scenes of ‘Respect’ and ‘The Many Saints of Newark’

By Reel Chicago Oct 14, 2021

Kramer Morgenthau, ASC takes Panavision behind the scenes of the period features Respect and The Many Saints of Newark. On the surface, a biopic about “Queen of Soul�...

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11 Dollar Bill helps Piggyback create a buzz for Cheeba Chews

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2021

11 Dollar Bill ended things on a high note in providing editorial, graphics design and post services for a new social campaign for Cheeba Chews, a maker of bite-size cannabis e...

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Optimus Promotes Zach Scheitlin to Audio Engineer

By Reel Chicago Oct 13, 2021

Optimus today announced that Zach Scheitlin has been promoted to Audio Engineer. Scheitlin’s elevation bolsters an already formidable audio team under the leadership o...

How a trailblazing woman made Chicago the home of improv

By Reel Chicago Oct 12, 2021

Chicago’s greatest cultural export just might be improv theater, which was born at Jane Addams’ Hull House during the Great Depression and carried out into the world by the...

Reel People

Andre De Shields to receive Sarah Siddons Actor of the Year Award

By Reel Chicago Oct 12, 2021

Tony Award Winner and multi-Tony nominee André De Shields will be honored by the Sarah Siddons Society when he is presented the organization’s 66th Annual Actor of the Year ...

REEL PRO

Chicago’s love/hate relationship with major film productions

By Joia DaVida and Barbara Roche Oct 8, 2021

Chicago's disenchantment with filmmaking, and how Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, the largest film studio in the U.S. partners with their neighbors. The film industry has st...

Reel Indie

Chicago Film Society is back screening difficult movies for difficult people

By Reel Chicago Oct 8, 2021

After spending the pandemic experimenting with new hobbies--bread-baking, zine-making, whittling, etc.--Chicago Film Society returns to "the only thing we ever knew how to do" ...

CITY NEWS

Full Spectrum Features announces Unbound Sound expanded cinema

By Reel Chicago Oct 8, 2021

Full Spectrum Features (FSF) announces Unbound Sound, an expanded cinema event co-presented with Comfort Station Logan Square and in partnership with the Chicago Underground Fi...

AICP/MIDWEST

Friends and colleagues gather for AICP/Midwest Meet. Drink. Talk. event

By Barbara Roche Oct 8, 2021

Good times were had last evening at the Tunnel on Kinzie where AICP/Midwest held their Meet. Drink. Talk. Safely. social event, created exclusively for Midwest agency, commerci...

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Yolanda Macias joins AbelsonTaylor as first Director of Diversity and Inclusion

By Reel Chicago Oct 6, 2021

AbelsonTaylor has appointed Yolanda Macias, a specialist in workplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), to the newly created position of director of diversity and inclusio...

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Vance Malone and John Marx launch Blue Label Productions

By Reel Chicago Oct 6, 2021

Longtime Director/Producer team Vance Malone and John Marx have made it official, partnering to launch their own boutique production company, Blue Label Productions. M...

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Roger joins forces with SG+Partners for midwest representation

By Reel Chicago Oct 6, 2021

Creative agency Roger has signed with SG+Partners for Midwest commercial representation. Roger joins a collective of premier production, post, and VFX talent represented...

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Tom Pastorelle joins Sarofsky as Senior Editor

By Reel Chicago Oct 6, 2021

One-stop cross-media production company Sarofsky is adding Tom Pastorelle to its full-time staff as Senior Editor. The news was announced by company Principal and Executive C...

REEL PRO

Filmmaking in Chicago is ‘significantly up’ with record breaking production

By Reel Chicago Oct 6, 2021

At the September 30th Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting Retiring Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Mark Kelly said filmmaking is “significa...

REEL PRO

Interview: writer and director of ‘Ghostwriter’ beautifully filmed in Chicago

By Joia DaVida Oct 1, 2021

Ghostwriter is a beautifully filmed black and white Indie film, about a bartender who, as a once published writer, has struggled for years with his second novel, and how he hel...

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‘Born in Chicago’ pays loving tribute to the origins of Chicago blues

By Reel Chicago Oct 1, 2021

Born In Chicago, the music documentary with deep roots in the Chicago music and production communities, will have its U.S. premiere October 11, 2021 at the 44th Mill Valley Fil...

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AbelsonTaylor promotes Dave Schafer to Director of Digital Production

By Reel Chicago Sep 24, 2021

AbelsonTaylor has promoted Dave Schafer to director of digital production and quality assurance. Working closely with the agency’s creative, account and project management gr...

CHIFILMFEST

57th Chicago International Film Festival announces Industry Days

By Reel Chicago Sep 24, 2021

The 57th Chicago International Film Festival announced the program for Industry Days, to be held October 14 - 17, 2021, with an impressive list of guest speakers to inspire and...

Events

Chicago Critics Film Festival returns to Music Box Theatre

By Reel Chicago Sep 24, 2021

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, announces the first ...