If all goes as planned, Mark Vadik's supernatural erotic thriller "The Thirsting" should hit the midnight movie circuit by Valentine's Day. An entertainment lawyer turned pla...
For Chicago's burgeoning community of active and creative independent filmmakers, 2005 was a very good year. The number of films?feature, short, doc, animation, experimental?en...
Director John Anderson and producer Maggie Magee are wearing big SMiLEs as their "Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE" concert video heads for the 2006 Grammy awards. "SMiLE" will...
HARRY LENNIX, one of the stars of ABC's "Commander-in-Chief," and Irma P. Hall filmed a trailer for the proposed feature, "Lemon Tea," that producers Rita Lewis and Felicia Midd...
Acclaimed Pakistani TV and music video director and composer Shoaib Mansoor completed the two-week Chicago leg of his social-religious epic "Khuda Key Liya" ("In the Name of God...
I hope this won't sound like those chatty Christmas letters that reprise family doings and accomplishments of the year past. Still, I have to brag a little about the Reel a...
After five years of gathering dust, a Christmas CD produced by most of biggest names in admusic has found new life and a new audience through?what else??the Internet. Now th...
Rich Moskal wants to blow up your film. The director of the Chicago Film Office is actively seeking local shorts for next year's Outdoor Film Festival, where selections will...
Nineteen-year-old actor and filmmaker Aaron Himelstein led the winners at the Midwest Independent Film Festival's inaugural Best of the Midwest Awards. Best of the Midwest be...
Paul Leuer of Printer's Row Pictures is nearing picture lock on his debut feature "Eden Court," the dark comedy he shot last summer at local sites including the Schaumburg Flyer...
When the elite of American independent, mini-major and international cinema unspool their work in Park City next January, Justin Hayward's "Divorce Lemonade" will be among them....
As his lesbian vampire feature "Night Fangs" hits stores in the U.S. and the U.K., Ricardo Islas of Alpha Studios is gearing up for his next production. The psychological h...
KARTEMQUIN'S DOCUMENTARY-IN-PROGRESS about stem cell research was one of only two American docs out of 41 international films invited to pitch at the International Documentar...
Ever since I was just a sprout living in the Tennessee mountains, I've had really good pork all across the world. But it wasn't until I worked on a Latin-themed movie on t...
When director James Zahn and producer Matt Pletcher launch their crime-horror epic "Death Walks the Streets" next year, it will be not only a feature film, but the flagship prop...
DAN CONSIGLIO of Saltburn hosts a preview screenings of his feature comedy "Alleyball," 6:30-10 p.m. Dec. 21 at MIX, 2843 N. Halsted. "Alleyball" follows a group of wiffleb...
A DEBORAH STRATMAN RETROSPECTIVE Dec. 4 at Chicago Filmmakers, with Stratman present, screens her 2004 "Kings of the Sky," that follows tightrope artist Adil Hoxur as he and hi...
KARTEMQUIN'S 1994 CLASSIC "Hoop Dreams" was among the 25 movies chosen from among 1,000 for the National Film Registry's compilation of films since 1933 being preserved by the ...
Archie Fletcher has taken over the reins of PERA, shifting leadership from the West Coast to the Midwest for the first time in the organization's history. Fletcher's new posi...
Experienced union organizer Justin Conway was selected as business agent of Camera Local 600-Central Region. He fills the slot vacated in September by Jason Rosin, who'd had th...
