Chicago Filmmakers is pleased to announce the full lineup for the 30th anniversary edition of the Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival, which will take place Thursday, March 12
Winners of the international contest will receive $1,000 and a chance to have their work screened at Cannes Dr. Phranque Wright is sitting across a table at a dark
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for Chicago Filmmakers’ new Edgewater home featured dedications, activities, and hors d’oeuvres on Saturday April 28. It was an exciting chapter in a story that has and
Chicago Filmmakers invites the public to join us in celebrating the opening of our new home, a 1928 Chicago Historic Landmark firehouse purchased from the city of Chicago in 2016.
The Year Between, a project written by Chicago filmmaker and comedian Alex Heller in development with Full Spectrum Features, will compete in AT&T Presents: Untold Stories, a live pitch event
The trailer for Super Narcoleptic Girl has arrived. The highly anticipated, Chicago-made webseries “follows the story of a low-level, narcoleptic superhero with the power to make people dance as she
Caryn Ruby, Erin R. Dooley and Mackenzie Horras spent over a combined 50 years in Chicago, each honing their comedy skills separately.
Unaware of each
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s 14th annual “Hollywood on State” Oscar night viewing party this Sunday promises to satisfy all kinds of movie lovers, including those
A group of six ambitious Chicago transplants now working in LA gathered for more shop talk over breakfast at Kitchen 24 in West Hollywood last week.
They were screenwriters Dante Bacani
After more than two years in the works, Chicago Filmmakers on Friday closed on its purchase of the city-owned Chicago landmark firehouse
Two of the four coveted Audience Choice Awards of the 50th Chicago Film Festival went to Chicago filmmakers now living on the West Coast. Kartemquin director
Oscar-nominated Bill Siegel, who co-directed and produced “The Weather Underground,” will teach Chicago Filmmakers’ most popular class, “Developing the Documentary,” during its winter 2008 instructional program.
WHO HE IS: Patrick Friel, since 1996 the program director of 34-year old Chicago Filmmakers.
WHAT HE DOES: He coordinates nine programs a year with
With more chances for interaction with national industry insiders and a strong selection of local filmmakers, IFP/Chicago continues to bolster its centerpiece program with the 15th Annual Midwest Filmmakers Summit.
The production collective Split Pillow brings it “yes, and?” improv-based aesthetic to their first documentary “Chicago360.”
It premieres in a three-night engagement at Chicago Filmmakers March
A DEBORAH STRATMAN RETROSPECTIVE Dec. 4 at Chicago Filmmakers, with Stratman present, screens her 2004 “Kings of the Sky,” that follows tightrope artist Adil Hoxur as he and his
Donius presided over her first IFP Filmmakers Conference Oct. 21-24, featuring an expanded four-day schedule, a higher-profile roster of national figures and attendees from
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 Media Burn hosts free weekend of Chicago-based filmmakingMedia Burn Archive is hosting the Guerrilla Television: The Revolutions of Early Independent Video Symposium – featuring newly-digitized works from the movement and offering a rare opportunity to discuss them  14th annual Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival April 14-23The 14th Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival (BWiFF) will be held at Classic Cinemas Elk Grove from April 14-23. The festival will exhibit over 30 films from around the globe                 |