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 ...

CHICAGOANS AT SUNDANCE expected this weekend at Park City, Utah include Fox TV's Robin Robinson and Ch. 7's Sylvia Perez, providing TV coverage of the festivities; Julee W...

Matt Wechsler of Hourglass Films is the one-man crew for the restaurant and bar web series "Chicago Eats TV," which has gone weekly. "I'm a food lover myself and a Chicago...

OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR Phillip Seymour Hoffman will appear Jan. 28 at the Music Box for a special screening of his directorial debut, "Jack Goes Boating." It's a story about two...

The new two-year commercials contract between the DGA and the AICP covers salary increases, the adoption of a code of preferred practices on creative rights and provisions prote...

Pixel Brothers' partners Mike Torchia and Dave Moravec must feel like Mark Twain who once famously stated, "The report of my death is greatly exaggerated." Despite the fallo...

"Leverage," returning to TNT Jan. 13 for another season of 15 episodes, will have "newer, better, cooler types of gadgets in general," says Twisted Media's Derek Frederickson, w...

Pixel Brothers is one "brother" short with the split last month of partner Andrew Ryann, who left the company he helped found six years ago to return to his roots: producing co...

Increased commercial shoot days were the only growth sign amid an otherwise listless local production industry in 2009, based on figures from the Chicago Film Office. Studio ...