The production collective Split Pillow brings it "yes, and?" improv-based aesthetic to their first documentary "Chicago360." It premieres in a three-night engagement at Chic...
Fresh from a Special Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival, Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's documentary "Forgiving Dr. Mengele" opens a limited national theatrical release wit...
There is nothing in the world like real desserts, made in a down-home kitchen and Sweet Mandy B's at 1208 W. Webster is the happiest, warmest, most delicious old-fashioned comfo...
Post production guru Scott Jacobs has come up with VideoDailies?, an innovative time and money-saving idea that launches this week as a new service provided by Global Video. ...
TIMECODE MECHANICS returns with the new DV action feature "Wages of Sin," the story of a rogue cop infiltrating a drug and prostitution ring to clear his name. Director Nath...
As video games have shifted away from original scores and toward licensed music from established artists, seven-year-old Matteson-based music house GameBeat Studios has moved in...
"CONVENTIOEERS" ACTORS Trevor Murphy and Alek Freidman conduct a workshop Feb. 15 before the film plays in the IFP/Chicago Meet the Filmmakers Series. Mora Stephens directe...
As Massachusetts, New York, and now possibly Wisconsin offer aggressive tax incentives to lure film production to their states, the Illinois Production Alliance is calling f...
WHO HE IS: Tom Pastorelle, a senior editor at Cutters Editorial where he's worked since 1993. HOW HE VIEWS HIS JOB: As an editor for high-profile clients like Nike, Wrangle...
For more than a decade the Hollywood film industry has called for an end to "runaway film production" in less expensive foreign locations. Finally, their call for help has been ...
When Claire Simon needs to cast roles for "Prison Break," she doesn't ask agents to send over headshots. Instead, she submits the breakdown (roles, gender, character type, e...
Entrants from 25 countries won 48 Mobius Awards for television and 30 Certificates and of these, only ONE Chicago ad agency took home a TV prize. Lou Beres & Associates won ...
OPTIMUS ADDED MATT DALY as visual effects director Jan. 18, as part of its graphics department restructuring. He'd been Digital Kitchen's visual effects director. One of ...
Michael Markowski and his DV camera became such a fixture at local protests in the past few years that rumors started flying among activists that Markowski was spying for the go...
Three hundred and fifty actresses in five cities including Chicago auditioned in 2000 for a feature film called "Moving Still." That film hasn't been made yet, but you can c...
MARTIN WHITEHEAD of Seattle's Wooly Head Productions premieres his Chicago-shot debut horror pic "The Promise Keeper" at L.A.'s Pan African Film & Arts Festival Ric Walker, ...
Tripod Films' horror feature "Drawing Blood" hits stores Feb. 7 as part of "Mental Maniacs," a six-film DVD box set in the inaugural release slate from Brain Damage Films' n...
L.A. POST HOUSE HIRES are Therese Hunsberger, Optimus' executive producer overseeing all operation, while Cutters added editor Fernando Villena, both for their respective Santa...
Film Wisconsin's bill #SB563?an aggressive package of film incentives considered one of the best in the nation?is gaining momentum in the state assembly with a roster of bi-part...
THE FIRST L.A. SCREENWRITERS CONFERENCE in at least five years arrives in Chicago Feb. 11-12, with an impressive roster of L.A. literary agents, managers and studio representati...
