The best the best of Chicago theatre will be recognized Oct. 29 at the 39th Annual Jeff Awards at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Winners will be an...
Producer Steven A. Jones joined the faculty of DePaul University's innovative Digital Cinema program, adding another link between one of the Midwest's fastest-growing cinema pro...
With two months to go before Wisconsin unleashes its delayed film incentives package, Film Wisconsin executive director Scott Robbe is confident the state will boast "at least $...
THIS IS ROGER EBERT'S YEAR for prestigious awards. He will receive the Gotham Award presented by the Independent Feature Project Nov. 27 in New York. The Gotham prize wa...
SUREE TOWFIGHNIA'S "Standing Silent Nation" won marijuana magazine High Times' 2007 Stony Award for Best Documentary. Alex White Plume, the subject of "Standing Silent Nation...
One of the city's biggest entertainment industry networking events will focus on the most theatrical of holidays. Chiopolis Entertainment and the Chicago Independent Artists ...
Frank Vincent, who played New York mob boss Phil Leotardo on "The Sopranos," stars in the in-production indie "Chicago Overcoat" as The Flowerman, an Outfit hit man taking out a...
WHO HE IS: A former adman on the business side, Ryan McDougal made "a turn on the dime" to visual effects artist after an intensive 15 months of animation and effects study at ...
Taking place for the rest of the Summit are eight panels of experts, the Flyover Zone Short Film Festival and party, two film premieres and special pitch and mentoring sessions.
MovieMaker Magazine tapped ReelChicago editor Ruth L Ratny for an interview in www.moviemaker.com about the subject she knows best?the Chicago film industry. From classics ...
The looming Writers Guild of America strike would be "devastating" to Chicago production, said Local 476 business manager Mark Hogan. "The major production companies won't att...
Former Chicagoan Eric Boardman was a disgruntled guest at the Sept. 24 Chicago Party Alliance event in L.A. He called it a "a ripoff," a sentiment privately expressed by others ...
"Ran$um Games" director Parris Reaves is producing his first film for another director with the coming-of-age drama "Leaders," now in production. Reaves met first-time writer...
THE ONE SHOW of great advertising from New York's One Club, which judged 18,000 entries from 50 countries, has made its annual pilgrimage to Chicago and the 2007 print winn...
A SHOUT OUT TO JACKIE TAYLOR, who after 31 years of staging more than 100 musical shows will receive a Special Award from the Jeff Awards honoring her outstanding contribution...
Rusty Gorman has the singular distinction of being the only Chicago filmmaker whose narrative motion picture will screen at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival. Gor...
WHO HE IS: Chad Ashley, director of CGI and a creative director at Somersault, Avenue's nationally recognized design/effects division. WHAT HE'S UP TO: At Autodesk's Oct. ...
Plucked from more than 200 entries, the work of seven local filmmakers will be screened at the Chicago International Film Festival's specially-cultivated, "Home Grown Shorts" pr...
Among the Illinois facts that surprised guests at the IFO Producers Breakfast in L.A. last week was the availability of a four-lane, 2.9 mile, virtually unused strip of highway ...
Fast on the heels of its smashingly successful fund-raising gala comes IFP/Chicago's 16th annual Midwest Filmmakers Summit the weekend of Oct. 19. "We're just recovering from...
