Costello to dish LA insider info at CSN Sunday event
SCREENWRITER/ADMAN COLIN COSTELLO, who’s been living in LA working in advertising and writing screenplays for the past 18
SCREENWRITER/ADMAN COLIN COSTELLO, who’s been living in LA working in advertising and writing screenplays for the past 18
One of the high points of the Chicago International Film Festival has always been the incredible parade of great Hollywood actors
The April 10 Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards will spotlight a Chicago-set and produced show by honoring actor Jesse
ALTHOUGH BEAST EDITORIAL edits music videos and indie shorts, this is the first time the company and editor Angelo Valencia have cut a feature. The project is Winnetka
BORIS WEXLER (Roundabout American) of Escape Films is developing the thriller feature Chat, about a severely light-averse father searching the world of online adult chat
YOU NEVER KNOW who’s going to show up at the Chicago International Film Festival, which is part of the fun of attending. On Friday night, actor Vince Vaughn showed up
October traditionally is the most eventfully-active month of the year as our calendar proves. We will continue to add events as quickly as they announced so, as they say, “stay
THE PREMIERE OF RACHEL COOK’S documentary, The Microlending Film Project, is being featured at the Oct. 5-7 Chicago International Social Change Film Festival The story is about the
Harry Lennix shows up as a controversial comic a la Richard Pryor at his wife’s (Tatum O’Neill) Chicago night club, in Mr. Sophistication, one of nine features and six shorts
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 in its entirety, music included, by still/video photographer
A TRIO OF SHORT FILMS about the Middle East and Middle East views of America will screen Saturday, Nov. 26 at the quite new Southside Hub
MULTI AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR SCOTT SMITH won the Illinois Film Office’s 4th annual Shortcuts short film contest with his 12-minute short, “A Certain Breed,” an humorous improv look at a
BEAST EDITORIAL has been rockin’ lately with more than its usual major advertising spot work. To wit: It edited a major doc that will showcase at the <a
The 47th Chicago International Film Festival, Oct. 6-20, pays homage to its home city by opening with the “The Last Rites of Joe May,” a quintessential Chicago-set drama, shot in
A FIRST FOR THE REEL! After years of managing the Reel solo, I am delighted that industry pro Nancy Reid has joined the Reel as VP/development.
In that role, Nancy will
JUNKO KAJINO and I are headed to northern Japan this spring to begin production on our new documentary, Uncanny Terrain, through Homesick Blues Productions.
We will follow organic farmers
A CAUTIONARY TALE. A couple who believed that their investment in the upbeat 2008-09 Cubs documentary, “We Believe,” would return an ROI has filed a lawsuit against the producer who
MANY HOLLYWOOD AND LOCAL EXPERTS will lead seminars and panels May 7 during the Sundance Institute’s ShortsLab:Chicago at Columbia College, showing how filmmakers can show and promote their work, either
STEPPENWOLF’S FEATURE, “The Last Rites of Joe May, was selected among a record 5,624 films for screening at the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York. It will compete
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 “Day Job,” and