Take Phil Lee’s challenge: Outlast him at riding Hogs & Honeys’ mechnical bull and win the prize
BEAT PHIL LEE AT BULLRIDING is the challenge the Avenue editor is hurling to creatives who need an excuse to mash up with other creatives after hours
BEAT PHIL LEE AT BULLRIDING is the challenge the Avenue editor is hurling to creatives who need an excuse to mash up with other creatives after hours
JWT’S CHICAGO OFFICE is on the brink of extinction after the loss of $180 million worth of Kraft business, an account this office has held for 70
JUAN FRAUSTO’S hip-hop vampire comedy “Get Pony Boy” has its theatrical premiere June 8 at the Historic Portage Theatre, after debuting in April at the Chicago Latino International Film Festival.
WHO HE IS: Nadav Kurtz, editor at post-production house Cutters since January 2007. He’s working with Draft/FCB Chicago on 3 :30 commercial spots to air internationally and domestically in March.
IFP/Chicago’s third annual Producers Series gets down to the business of film and getting it to market with lectures and panels by proven experts from throughout the country, including favorite
Filmmaker Hurt McDermott is editing “Black Mail,” the first film in his two-picture deal for executive producer Andrzej Krukowski’s Akru Productions.
In development is the much
TOM BEACH wrote the screenplay for Simon Rumley’s “The Handyman,” which won best short at the Sitges International Film Festival in Catalonia, Spain.
“Monte Hellman
After waiting years for money to collect fees owed her for linking a Greek director’s film with Martin Scorsese production company, Valerie Gobos has filed a law suit against their
DALIA TAPIA is weeks away from closing a deal for domestic DVD distribution of her debut feature “Buscando a Leti” (“In Search of Leti”).
A Pilsen school
GEORGE ELDER’S CONCERT DOC, “Piaf: Her Story ? Her Songs,” sung by French jazz singer Raquel Bitton, is set for June 19 release by Lionsgate to
DRAFT AND FCB WILL MERGE and the combined Interpublic-owned agencies will be called Draft FCB.
Chairman/CEO will be Howard Draft, founder/CEO of his
“The War Tapes,” the Iraq War documentary produced and edited by Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”), will have its world premiere April 30 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
BRUCE WOOD’S supernatural mystery “The Door” has its world premiere Jan. 19 at the Beloit International Film Festival in Beloit, Wisc. Wood, the owner of Fenway Gallery, returned to
Chicago’s film industry reflected the national trend with a burgeoning documentary scene in 2005.
The Chicago International Documentary Festival continued to grow in scale, prominence and
Deborah Stratman didn’t speak the language or know anyone in the Western Chinese Taklamakan desert when she went there alone in 2001 to shoot her documentary “Kings of the Sky.”
Filmmaker donnie l. betts first met Oscar Brown, Jr. at a workshop in Denver when betts was a young actor there.
“He inspired me to be the
The hour-long version of Bob Hercules of Media Process Group and Cheri Pugh’s documentary “Forgiving Dr. Mengele” is back in production since obtaining a total of $26,000 in finishing funds
HURT McDERMOTT has taken home another screenplay award for the dystopian thriller “Nightingale in a Music Box,” which he wrote and directed, the first feature for the distinguished playwright.
Hard work during fall and winter brings forth the rewards in spring and summer. In full bloom this week are commercials honored by the AICP Show in New York June
Life is a Dream Productions is developing its $500,000 HD feature drama “Gray, White & Black,” from acclaimed Yugoslav-born director I. Michael Toth, to shoot here and in Paris this