One of Chicago’s famous four star directors will highlight this weekend’s welcome revival of the Independent Feature Project’s 20th annual Filmmakers Conference when it r...
In these days of increasingly affordable production value and proliferating outlets for episodic content, getting an independently produced series picked up for a TV deal is m...
GAIL GILBERT’S CERISE FILMS creative editorial is expanding with the recent hiring of Jeremy Vranich, as the company’s first producer/new business development, giving the a...
Rich Larsen bristles when asked how he acquired his admiration for Al Capone. “We’re not glorifying gangsters,” he says. “We know Capone killed people.&nbs...
TIMELY DOC HEAD GAMES, about the epidemic of concussions in football and other sports produced by Steve James (The Interrupters, and Columbia College film department chair Br...
Longtime Beast editor Morgan Bradley is all packed up and ready for the next chapter in her career. On Saturday, she boards a plane for her new job at Beast Editorial in San ...
NEWLY INVIGORATED IFP/CHICAGO has announced its ever-popular and helpful two-day Filmmakers Conference, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, offering screenings, panels, case stud...
Coveted gold Emmy statuettes will be presented to winners in some 65 categories of broadcast endeavor, from around 300 nominees, Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Radisson Aqua Blu Hot...
The great Chicago writer Nelson Algren gets the documentary treatment with not just one but two feature-length projects debuting this month: Mark Blottner and Denis Mueller’...
Even when he was lieutenant governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn was out there promoting the film industry when and wherever he could. He is a strong proponent of the state’s 30% ...
Diverse Voices in Docs (DVID) — a collaboration between the Community Film Workshop and Kartemquin Films providing professional development and mentorship program for docume...
“I was able to take care of anything, and I mean anything,” Gary Goehl says in a promotional video for Mister Chicago, a film in development based on Goehl’s life. ...
The former Grace & Wild Studios in Farmington Hills that closed in October 2011, after more than 20 years of busy operation, is being incarnated as Studio Center and led by...
After two of four free previews of David Holcombe’s Graffito at the Oracle Theatre in Lakeview were cancelled earlier this month over charges of the producer’s “questiona...
It’s not a Se7en prequel, despite what the title might suggest. But Nicholas Celozzi II, writer/producer of the thriller 6ix, does not hesitate to make the comparison.&...
Tonight, the collaboration of Chicago’s long established ARU recording company and Ft. Lauderdale-based Animaticmedia will launch with a party for an expected 175 invited age...
Cybill Shepherd and Mira Sorvino have been cast in “Believe,” a low-budget faith-based film currently shooting in Ludington. Also joining the cast are Lee Majors (“...
FEMINIST FILMMAKER JENNIFER REEDER, an associate professor of art and art history at UIC, screens a sneak peak from her new film Blood Below the Skin, Sept. 25, along with her ...
BAM STUDIOS added two new rooms over the summer to accommodate increased business in all areas of its audio post services, says owner/engineer Brian Reed. Studio C was e...
Media Burn -- the only U.S. organization with its particular mission of preserving and access of independently produced, aristically significant work on videotape – celebrat...
