Aspiring writers will be flying in from all over the country Saturday, May 2, to attend the only free and public screenwriting conference in the country: DePaul’s School of...
Bad Alex channels
the story of
Michael Crowe,
a fifteen-year-old
who was accused
and later acquitted of
of murdering his sister
In his next feature film, Bad Alex,...
The Independent Filmmakers Project Chicago's (IFP) first new logo in 17 years signifies “a revamping of our image to portray who we are and where we’re going,” says IFP b...
The fanciful Underground Prop Art Show of costumes, props at the I Am Logan Square Gallery, will run in conjunction with the 22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival, May 13-17, ...
With the CPS making daily headlines, “The School Project” doc series couldn’t be more timely. Now the fifth episode, produced by Media Process Group, on Chicago publ...
LEO BURNETT trumped the Chicago International Film Festival TV awards by scoring 18 – or almost half -- of the 40 television commercial awards presented last Wednesday at a ...
Based on the success of DePaul’s Cinema School teaming up with Cinespace for on-site stage and classroom space, the studio is moving forward with plans to open the doors of ...
This year’s CIMMfest’s partnership with the city-sponsored Lake FX Summit + Expo, “turned out to be a really good experience,” says Dave Moore, executive director of t...
There’s no third season shooting in Chicago for USA Network’s quirky comedy half-hour “Sirens” series about a group of paramedics in Chicago. Low ratings did it in, des...
Chicago–based artist, designer, photographer and NoPattern Studio founder Chuck Anderson has joined Havas Worldwide in the new position of creative director of design. He wi...
Beginning last September, award-winning documentarian Ines Sommer of Sommer Filmworks, kept farmers’ grueling dawn-to-dusk hours filming a farming family on their 12-acre org...
Roy Skillicorn, who built a big, Chicago-based bicoastal production company, has been hired by Digital Kitchen to launch and lead its new DK Studios, aimed at fulfilling the my...
Filmmaker / actor Joe Swanberg will present his latest indie comedy, "Digging For Fire," about marriage, parenting, mystery and murder, as the opening selection of the 3rd annu...
Veteran colorist Craig Leffel signed with Filmworkers for representation of color correction projects in the Midwest, in addition to heading Big Spoon Industries, which he for...
“Chicagoland Shorts” is a series of the best non-mainstream shorts culled from local film festivals, micro- and niche-cinema and film schools premiering at Facets Cinemath...
Nelson Carvajal’s “Apehood,” a hybrid movie trailer that combines characters from “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” with the setting from “Boyhood,” has been nomi...
BIG PARTY TONIGHT hosted by Corey Coken and Jamie Vanadia’s NoiseFloor to celebrate the opening night of the seventh consecutive year of CIMMfest, which, in association with...
The pilot for “The Blexicans,” a half-hour sitcom series being directed here by Bill Duke for Red Dove Media, gets underway April 27 for five days at Cinespace and in the ...
Chicago’s spring showcase, CIMMfest 7, kicks off Thursday with spectacular music, films and kick ass concerts including a number of tantalizing Old School looks back at the ...
WTTW/11’s executive producer Ann Gleason and producer Dan Protess did the impossible when they selected 13 eclectic, interesting and diverse restaurants and bars out of 6,2...