IFO staffer injured in taxi accident
JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office’s diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home
JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office’s diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home
NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine
Six Columbia College alums will proudly walk the red carpet Saturday night when their ambitious first feature premieres at the Chicago International Film Festival.
VARIETY NAMED CHICAGO the number four filming location on a list of “10 Greatest Locations in North America,” in a special issue published next month. We rank
SWEET HOME CHICAGO was a spectacular success Monday at the Le Grande Orange restaurant in Santa Monica, when 350 Chicagoans in the industry turned out for a
Roger Ebert will make a special guest appearance at the closing ceremonies of the Naperville Film Festival, one of ten film festivals being held in Chicago and Downstate this month.
DOCUMENTARIAN KEN BURNS comes to Chicago Sept. 16 to speak at a luncheon and presentation for his new book, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” at the Union
EILEEN WILLENBORG WAS BOWLED OVER at the National AFTRA Convention Aug. 8 when she received a super prestigious Gold Card, the union’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize,
TYLER JAY, recently with the 2016 Committee, joined Dictionary Films as an executive producer of content.
While he was with the 2016 Committee, Jay
Director Quentin Tarantino will receive a special tribute at the Chicago International Film Festival’s 2009 Summer Gala Aug. 18, along with the Chicago premiere screening of Tarentino’s wildly awaited “Inglourious
CLAIRE CONNELLY, IFP board president, is producer of Josh Hyde’s debut feature “Postales,” which was one of 10 films selected to participate in IFP Narrative Film Lab’s week-long
Chicago actor/director Morocco Omari won the Best Short Film Award from the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival for “The (Mis)Leading Man,” produced by casting director Sharon King, MJ Allen and
A “PUBLIC ENEMIES” PRESS JUNKET by Universal Studios is scheduled for June 18 in Chicago, with the conference to be held at Union Station, we hear. A
Award-winning director/editor John Anderson is wrapping his feature-length doc, “Sons of the Blues,” to meet the June deadline for entry in the Chicago International Film Festival.
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Call it two legends united for one exciting night Friday in historic Bronzeville.
Melvin Van Peebles, the filmmaker who himself made history heralding a new era
The Illinois Film Office’s “Shortcuts” film contest is back in business for a second year and statewide filmmakers have five months from now ? until June 30 – to enter
MAYOR DALEY PROCLAIMS JAN. 30 “ER” DAY in Chicago, and in a twist you rarely if ever hear of ? “ER” will present a gift to
IFP HAS NAMED RYAN JEWELL, fresh from two years as Cinema/Chicago’s managing director, as its new executive director, a position that’s been vacant for four months.
Locally-made features by Carl Seaton, Joe Swanberg and Tom Gustafson, a feature doc about an underground rocker, and 10 shorts shine in the Spotlight Illinois section of the 44th Chicago
FLASHPOINT ACADEMY named former agency producer Linda Wolfe director of student placement, a new position, announced Flashpoint president/CEO Howard Tullman.