“White people have to more than just think that it’s okay to not act in a racist way … they actually have to actively do something” Director Steve James America
Another first for Chicago: DOC10, a documentary film festival presented by the Chicago Media Project –
For the first time in its half-century history, the Chicago International Film Festival is going beyond its general audience screenings with
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A new independent feature, “PS,” starring Laura Linney and written and directed by Dylan Kidd, kicks off the Oct. 21-24 IFP/Chicago Independent Filmmakers Conference
Congratulations to the winning recipients of the 65th Annual Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards. The annual ceremonies took place on November 11, at the Swissotel Hotel in downtown Chicago and the show was
The Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced the nominations for the 2022-2023 regional Emmy Awards. The award ceremony is scheduled for Saturday,
The 56th Chicago International Film Festival announced a slate of four narrative feature film projects in active development that will be pitched live in front of a virtual audience and a panel of distinguished industry judges during the Festival’s Industry Days on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020. Now in its sixth year, The Pitch at Industry Days has established itself as a leading industry showcase spotlighting bold, original work from the Chicago region. Past projects from The Pitch at Industry Days have gone onto completion, including Jennifer Reader’s Signature Move, and two films showing at last year’s Chicago International Film Festival: Knives and Skin, also directed by Jennifer Reeder, and Haroula Rose’s Once Upon a River. This year’s filmmakers represent a diversity of voices that continue to reinforce the breadth and vitality of Chicago-area filmmakers and projects: from a sci-fi comedy horror film set in the suburbs to a drama set along the Mexico-American border, to the story of a sexual assault within a Black community and an estranged daughter in an Iraqi-American family who impersonates her recently deceased father. See below for loglines. The winning pitch receives an awards package of in-kind goods and services worth tens of thousands of dollars. Contributors include Keslow Camera, IFA Chicago and The Story Stage at CineSpace, Chicago Media Angels, Ramo Law PC, and the Sundance Institute. “Right now, during the pandemic, it’s the perfect time to develop, workshop, hone, and fine-tune feature film projects and make them great,” said Chicago International Film Festival and Industry Days Senior Programmer Anthony Kaufman. “The Pitch is a terrific way for the Festival to support and encourage local filmmakers and help push their projects forward.”
