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Courshon’s course helps filmmakers find distribution

By Lou Carlozo Nov 5, 2012

Producer and distribution expert and former Chicagoan Jerome Courshon tackled the distribution maze when he made his award-winning, 1998 indie God, Sex & Apple Pie, wh...

Wachowskis comments send a distorted message

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 5, 2012

Filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski have been on a media blitz lately, popping up in national magazines, local newspapers and radio. What makes this is a huge story in itse...

Events

Month’s events climax with big AICP Show on Nov. 15

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 3, 2012

November’s calendar for the next two weeks is filled with informative, interesting and helpful events that also provide an excellent reason to go out and socialize. Chec...

Beast Editorial edits first feature, Alex Beh’s “Warren”

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 2, 2012

ALTHOUGH BEAST EDITORIAL edits music videos and indie shorts, this is the first time the company and editor Angelo Valencia have cut a feature. The project is Winnetka native ac...

Kartemquin, CCFW offer minority docmakers’ workshops

By Mike Morgan Nov 2, 2012

Applications are being sought for the first class of Diverse Voices in Docs, a new professional development and mentorship for emerging doc makers of color that will start in Ja...

Indie Focus

Director Wexler develops thriller as his third feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 2, 2012

BORIS WEXLER (Roundabout American) of Escape Films is developing the thriller feature Chat, about a severely light-averse father searching the world of online adult chat for his...

Leviathan’s White debuts film at global digital fest

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 1, 2012

Leviathan executive producer Jason White departed Thursday, Nov. 1 for Melbourne, Australia to attend the second international Pause Fest Digital Festival, Nov. 8-11, that bring...

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HY Connect shows enviable account, staff growth at 10

By Lewis Lazare Nov 1, 2012

We’ve said it many times before. And no matter how often we say it, the truth doesn’t change. The past decade has not been kind to the Chicago advertising commun...

re:think expands with new producer Adina Kwasigroch

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 1, 2012

At their two year anniversary mark, fast-growing design-driven/ 3D re:think studios hired its ninth staff member. Adina Kwasigroch joined Monday as visual effects producer...

Elijah Wood shoots scene here for Spanish thriller

By Kerry Devine Nov 1, 2012

Actor Elijah Wood was in town Sunday and Monday shooting an exterior scene for the Spanish production of “Grand Piano,” a thriller set mainly in a 3,000 seat theatre in Chic...

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CDW/O&M spots short- change spokesman Charles Barkley

By Lewis Lazare Oct 30, 2012

Let us, for a moment, turn our attention to Charles Barkley. We all know who he is. He’s a former pro basketball player who found a life after life on the court as a TV ...

ARU sees growth in original music composition

By Sean Graves Oct 30, 2012

Although ARU Chicago has amassed a 100,000-theme library – one of the biggest in the business -- the recording company has been seeing a growing demand for a better overall pr...

Four big changes among post companies

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 26, 2012

COMING AND GOING. Visual effects specialist Sam Gierasimczuk felt right at home when he returned to the Filmworkers building to join Vitamin as associate creative director...

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Burnett/NY play says a lot about state of advertising

By Lewis Lazare Oct 25, 2012

What’s next? A couture line of advertising-inspired fashion? That’s the sort of question one finds oneself asking in the wake of the news this week that Leo Bur...

14 indie made TV shows earn Midwest Emmy nominations

By Mike Morgan Oct 24, 2012

Not as many non-broadcaster-produced shows received 2012 Midwest Chapter Emmy nominations this season as they had in past years. Still, approximately 14 companies, especia...

IPA reelects Teamsters’ Crabtree as board president

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 24, 2012

In a recent election the Illinois Production Alliance board of directors was reelected, with the exception of one member stepping down after serving on the board since the IPA�...

Central Illinois promotes its film charms, Oct. 26-28

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 24, 2012

The seven-year old Springfield-based Central Illinois Film Commission (CIFC) decided that the time has come to let people know that the area -- “everything below I-80 to the K...

Cutters will host 800 at “Bloodbath” costume party

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 23, 2012

CUTTERS HALLOWEEN PARTY Thursday night, one of the two biggest, must-attend parties of the year (along with AICP’s big night Nov. 15) expects a record-breaking 800 guests – ...

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Larmon’s Cavalry delivers a creative punch for Coors

By Lewis Lazare Oct 23, 2012

Beer advertising needed a jolt. And Jim Larmon, the chief creative officer at Cavalry/Chicago, has delivered a big one. With the unveiling on Sunday of the new agency’s ...

Brody and Ryan’s locally shot comedy feature in post

By Mike Morgan Oct 22, 2012

The third feature-length project from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2DS Productions has wrapped two weeks of local filming and has begun postproduction at Filmworkers Club and it...

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