WHO SHE IS: Documentary camera person Dana M. Kupper, an associate of Kartemquin Films.
She has taught the same camera seminar at Columbia College Chicago
Ch. 11 is getting it back together again after a funding slump with the launch of three new shows the station will produce.
“CEO Exchanges”
DANIELLE BEVERLY’S documentary “Learning to Swallow,” about Wicker Park artist Patsy Desmond’s journey to recovery after a suicide attempt destroyed her digestive system, screens at the Film Festival Wednesday, Oct
U.S. TV audiences get an unusually personal window into the challenges of teen pregnancy this October, when the Kindling Group’s documentary “A Doula Story” has its broadcast premiere on PBS.
EIGHTBALL FILMS’ Caton Volk’s music video with local electrorock band Assassins will start making the rounds of the prestigious Indie Music Festival in three Canadian cities, Seattle and New York.
LANCE CATANIA of X-Ray Productions screens his debut HD horror feature “Cup of My Blood” in its theatrical premiere in a weeklong engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning
Hank Neuberger and Terry Fryer’s ultra-busy Third Wave Productions produced the John Mayer “Soundstage” episode with special guest Buddy Guy that aired on PBS July 14. It was broadcast
Schaumburg interactive media specialists bmedia are making a dramatic move into TV and film production, with animated and live-action series and several independent features in the works.
Charles F. Larimer aims to bring his great-great grandparents’ Civil War experiences to big and small screens with “Love and Valor,” his “documentary/art film” now in production, with narration from
FOR A MAJOR CHEVROLET SHOOT Schumacher Camera brought in the new handheld Arri235 camera at the behest of director/DP Dana Christiansen, shooting for Plum Productions of L.A.
Life is a Dream Productions is developing its $500,000 HD feature drama “Gray, White & Black,” from acclaimed Yugoslav-born director I. Michael Toth, to shoot here and in Paris this
Media Process Group’s Bob Hercules is working with political consultant David Axelrod to develop a long-form documentary on Mayor Richard J. Daley.
The new doc will
HURT McDERMOTT’S 2004 Slamdance best screenplay winner, “Nightingale in a Music Box,” has its New York premiere Tuesday, June 7 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.
THIRTY OPTIMUS “SPOTS”?not about the post house, but 30-second creative confections by all Optimus employees and not just editors?have been airing as commercials on Comcast.
Staffers
Ch. 11 executive VP/television Randy King and “Chicago Tonight” executive producer Mike Leiderman have left the station. King quit out of frustration, and Leiderman was abruptly fired.
INDIEFEST CHICAGO has extended the submission deadline to May 10 for the Third Annual Indiefest Film Festival & Market, the only film market in Midwest, which runs July 29-Aug. 7.
JULIA LING, who guested on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has signed to play the lead role in Nathyn Masters’ Hong Kong-style martial arts pic “Silvergun Samurai,” slated to shoot on
Tod Lending follows up his Oscar-nominated “Legacy” with the new doc “Omar and Pete,” premiering April 6 in the Chicago International Documentary Festival’s Grand Prix Competition.
Mark Wexler exposes his often-stormy relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, in “Tell Them Who You Are,” the film that closes the Chicago International Documentary Festival April 10.
After looking at the numbers and the expense of renting HD equipment for their “Sound Stage” series, HD Ready partners Joe Thomas and Jim Wolande decided that owning their own
