OSCAR NOMINEE STEVE JAMES, an Oscar nominee for the seminal “Hoop Dreams,” has told another compelling basketball documentary: “No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson” for ESPN’s “30 for
Chicago has a particularly strong lineup this year at the increasingly influential South by Southwest Film Festival, running March 12-20 in Austin, Texas.
In the lineup are
Mike Starr has done his share of mob movies. The veteran character actor and onetime Chicagoan starred in the local “Osso Bucco” and has done supporting turns in “Goodfellas”
Chicago’s only major representation at the Slamdance Film Festival will open the 15th annual alternative to Sundance Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah, with a Jan. 27 encore screening.
THE SUPER SECRETIVE WACHOWSKIS may be ramping up their next movie, with Huffington Post publisher and politico Ariana Huffington, of all people, involved in it. Photos
ROD BLAGOJEVICH never ceases to amaze. After enjoying a few blissful months without his breathless media appearances, we began to believe he had hunkered down to study
The ninth Indie Incubator Film Festival dedicated to short films of every conceivable genre is literally held underground, but that doesn’t mean it has a low profile.
TV show veteran Lars Ullberg produced and directed pilot for a reality TV series about energy conservation, shooting in an 84-year-old log lodge on a lake in nearby Michigan,
Villa Park duplication and video production services house CopyMaster Video celebrates 25 years this month in an industry that has been almost entirely transformed since the company opened for business
LOVE IS IN THE AIR for the first Hollywood project to be shot in Chicago so far this year, breaking the nine-month dry spell and portending more
Although Concept One Media founder/president Linda Livorsi runs a bustling $1.3 million-grossing production company in Downers Grove, she occasionally gets behind the camera as the shooter on the job, especially
SIX NEW HD SPOTS returns the LaSalle St. law of Cochran & Montgomery to TV advertising for the first time since the death in 2004 of Johnny Cochran of O.J.
One thing is for sure. It won’t be the same NAB this year and it may never be the same again. Let’s recap.
HOWARD TULLMAN, FLASHPOINT ACADEMY’S CEO, received Northwestern Law School’s Distinguished Entprepreneur Award, at the Law School’s Small Business Opportunity Conference March 1 at Thorne Hall.
SUREE TOWFIGHNIA’S “Standing Silent Nation” won marijuana magazine High Times’ 2007 Stony Award for Best Documentary.
Alex White Plume, the subject of “Standing Silent Nation,” is the
Evanston native Jeffrey Lieber, the creator of the extraordinary TV hit “Lost,” was fired by ABC after he wrote the pilot for “Lost’s” original series.
WHO SHE IS: As Women in Film/Chicago’s essential Career Development chair, Lisa Wilson and her committee plan and organize some 30 events each year?
Hollywood film and TV director John Hancock has returned to his theatre roots. “The Brother,” the play he wrote and directed, previews Aug. 23 at the Theatre Building Chicago.
Senior Flame artist Chris Ryan?whose eye-popping list of Hollywood blockbusters includes “300” and “Titanic”?has set up Chaos Studios, a viral collective of some of the best 2D and 3D
Suree Towfighnia first visited the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in August, 2002 to film Alex White Plume’s hemp harvest for her documentary “Standing Silent Nation.”
