WBBM news anchor and radio journalist Felicia Middlebrooks will screen her powerful, prize-winning 52-minute documentary, “Somebody’s Child: The Redemption of Rwanda” March 31, at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema.
Trio Video is expanding its fleet for the second time in less than two years with the infusion of a $10 million investment from two venture capital companies.
DP Tom Musto brings his two-day lighting seminar to the Chicago area in June with a guarantee that his formula for film style lighting for any kind of video and
It’s fitting, the way Matthew Scott Harris came to make his first film about choice and destiny.
“The Weather Man” was shooting near Harris’ Lakeview restaurant
Director John Anderson and producer Maggie Magee are wearing big SMiLEs as their “Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE” concert video heads for the 2006 Grammy awards.
The strong local showing in this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival points to the growth of African American independent film production in Chicago that fest programmer Barbara Scharres calls “a
Lee Facklis, CEO of Show Department, Inc., accepts 2005 ICNC Company of the Year Award for its “exceptional growth to the area and produced a positive impact on the Kinzie
Patrick Read Johnson’s teenage visits to the visual effects stages of “Stars Wars” and “Close Encounters” launched him on a 20-year career as Hollywood effects technician and studio writer/director.
CHICAGO FILMMAKERS’ Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival June 16-18 opens with a program featuring a who’s who of avant-garde heavyweights:
Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Michelangelo Eye
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.
It’s been a year since freelance editors Mindy Hilt and Karla Svatos opened post house Edit Diva, and while business has ebbed and flowed, they’ve grown enough to start expanding
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.
Towers Productions, the 16-year old producer of cable content, is Chicago’s largest production company, with estimated billings of $10 million.
ReelChicago’s Catherine Rategan talked
Composer Paul Libman, a multiple award-winner for his thousands of commercial jingles and industrial film scores, has found glory in another arena.
The 35-year veteran of
It was a dark and stormy night, metaphorically speaking. Six of us, all aspiring screenwriters, were gathered at the Perfect Cup, a cozy neighborhood cafe on Chicago’s North Side.
It’s d?j? vu all over again.
In January 1979 I was living and working out of a cozy apartment at 900 N. Michigan
Recognizing the increasing imperative of “change now or die,” Cinematographers Local 600 last month took a bold giant step towards changing the face and future of Chicago film unions.
Figures released last month by Actors Equity Association (Equity) confirm that Chicago once again fueled Equity’s 13-state Central Region to a record-setting year, as measured by total work weeks booked
Let’s take a step back in time in order to bring perspective to Catherine Rategan’s interview with Tony Lorenz, founder/president of 12-year old ProActive, Inc., a business communications company with
FAVORITE SON Steve Poster did double duty when he was in town last week. The American Society of Cinematographers president received the Professional Achievement Award from IIT/Institute of Design, and
