PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER JIM WHITE may prove that lightning does strike twice. He just got the word that his screenplay, "Dinky Dau" (Vietnamese slang for "crazy") was selected ...

You win some, you lose some. Michigan knows, winning a new production company that plans to open a $20 million film studio in Clinton Township (90 minutes northeast of Detroit)...

It looked like tumbleweeds in the exhibit hall at last week's National Assn. of Television and Programming Executives (NATPE) held at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. Attendance h...

WYCC-Ch. 20 is seeking relationships with independent producers, in which WYCC can serve as the presenting station for co-productions to air on Ch. 20 and to offer the program t...

Madison filmmaker Cory J. Udler celebrates fellow DIY horror filmmakers in his documentary, "I Made My Own Damn Movie (and lived to tell about it)." After making the 2009 fe...

The lighting class of Dave Moravec of Pixel Brothers, a part-time Columbia College instructor for many years, had the distinction of inaugurating Columbia College's new $21 mill...

FILMMAKERS CAN EARN MONEY when their films play on Hustlefilms.com. Armand Lucas of HustleFilms is offering filmmakers 10 to 20 cents-per-view to play their shorts on his site ...

Mike Starr has done his share of mob movies. The veteran character actor and onetime Chicagoan starred in the local "Osso Bucco" and has done supporting turns in "Goodfellas" a...

It goes without saying that Kartemquin docs always attract an enthusiastic audience, but it is a rarity when one of them sells out two weeks in advance of the screening date. ...

The great DP Philip Bloom of London, considered the world's foremost Video DSLR shooter and evangelist of DSLR low-budget filmmaking, arrives in Chicago Sunday to participate in...

Producers Boris Wexler and Julian Grant of Escape Films have the distinction of being the first Chicago filmmakers to shoot a feature entirely with the Canon EOS 7D, one of the ...

When two couples walked out of a screening at John Borowski's real life horror docu-drama, "Fish," at Horrorbles small theatre in Berwyn, the filmmaker felt compelled to talk to...

"BLACK MAIL," the modern-day take on "Much Ado about Nothing" by Slamdance and Jeff-winning writer director Hurt McDermott, premieres in a three-night run starting Feb. 5 at the...

Founder Shawn Campbell has been encouraged by the listener feedback she's gotten during the first week of nonprofit Chicago Independent Radio Project's (CHIRP) online station ...

HoneyTech's security training videos are eminently watchful, "mostly CGI with a high-tech feel-- think ?Tron' or ?The Matrix' -- because we wanted to change things," says compan...

Several notable local industry people are collaborating with Vince Lawrence of Slang Musicgroup to help launch the career of new singer-songwriter Jana G. "We're all working...

Script contests are, of course, nothing and tend to be like any other shot at quick success: long. But filmmakers Scott Prestin and Craig Pietrowiak are trying to change the odd...

MICKEY ROONEY plays the patriarch of a cop family with two troubled police officer grandsons (Tony and John DeGuide) in Tony DeGuide's "The Voices from Beyond," now in productio...

Writer/director Jeremy Passmore, who wrote "Red Dawn" that recently wrapped in Detroit and is at work on John Carpenter's "The Prince," will be one of the industry insiders pres...

A quartet of happy campers returned from three days in L.A. talking to studio execs with big smiles on their faces and signed with collective relief, as it looks like Chicago's ...