On Dian Sourelis' Christmas wish list are such non-traditional items as pens, markers, paint, and collage materials such as toothpicks, buttons, feathers, carpet square and Chri...
It was business as usual Dec. 12 for ARU's longtime sound engineers Don Arbuckle and Mark Zeboski. The difference this day was that they were no longer ARU employees, having be...
ACTOR MATT DILLON will portray Leonard Chess, the legendary founder of the South Side Chicago blues label Chess Records, in Sony/BMG Film's "Cadillac Records." Writt...
BRIAN JUN'S dramatic feature "Steel City" was named Best of the Midwest at the Midwest Independent Film Festival last week at Century Centre Cinema before an SRO house. Othe...
Todd Haynes' fractured Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There," now in theatres, leads the nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards. Haynes talked with the audience after a preview s...
One day in the mid-?90s, ace table top director Peter Elliott gathered his three key staffers?assistant director, gaffer and special effects rigger?into his office and told them...
FOUR CHICAGO EMMY AWARDS went to HMS Media's critically acclaimed "Jump Rhythm Jazz Project: Getting There," the only independent production amid the hundreds of Emmy nominatio...
PREQUEL: Star Farm Productions' flagship property, "Edgar & Ellen" cartoon series, is big business, supported by books, animated TV and an online community. "Trick or Twins...
One fully local feature made in Chicago and one with ties to Chicago are in the non-competitive Premieres section of the Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 17-27, still the top launch...
It's rare that the subjects of a film?in this case a documentary?are directly involved in the film's sales. But having StreetWise vendors sell DVD copies of "StreetWise: The ...
Veteran editors Jeff Evenson and Ed Pickart have merged their talents and resources in Motion Post that delivers post services "where you want it, and when you need it," they sa...
PATRICK SWAYZE stars as an unorthodox but effective FBI agent who trains a new na?ve young partner (Travis Fimmel) while being pursued by an Internal Affairs team in in "The Be...
Oscar-nominated Bill Siegel, who co-directed and produced "The Weather Underground," will teach Chicago Filmmakers' most popular class, "Developing the Documentary," during its...
Director Martin Scorsese was recently left hungering for more after he screened filmmaker Don Klugman's 22-minute taste of Rush Street nightlife from 1964. So Klugman satisfi...
D.P. CARLSON'S ROCKUMENTARY "Live to Dream!" about KISS guitarist Paul Stanley premieres at the Chicago KISS Fan Fest Nov. 24 at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites in Carol Stre...
Chad Hutson's trademark could be the jazzy visual projects he spices up with musical numbers, like the impossibly catchy Jens Lekman tune, "A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill...
A group of independent filmmakers from Naperville will host the city's first annual Independent Film Festival September of 2008?but with a big, helpful difference from other fes...
Feature producers who love shooting in Chicago, but routinely take their negatives back to L.A. for editing and finishing, might heed the high praise Robert Townsend heaped on a...
WRITERS STRIKE NOTWITHSTANDING, loyal-to-Chicago homies director George Tillman and producer Bob Teitel will shoot their next feature, called "Humboldt Park," here in Febru...
Detroit-headquartered Organic, Inc., a digital communications agency, has opened its first new office in three years in Chicago in search of "fresh new pockets of talent" to sup...
