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...
IT'S A RARE THING when an employer recommends one of his star staffers to another company. But that's what Fletcher Chicago's Tom Fletcher did when Canon USA marketing exec...
Evanston native Jeffrey Lieber, the creator of the extraordinary TV hit "Lost," was fired by ABC after he wrote the pilot for "Lost's" original series. He's never been to H...
Sean Hannity, co-host of Fox News' nightly "Hannity & Colmes" will host the live, one-hour presentation of the 2007 National Radio Hall of Fame. The Nov. 3 annual induction o...
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED RED CAMERA debuts in Chicago Wednesday at an SRO demo at RDS given by RDS' Mitch Apley and Optimus' Craig Leffel answering the question: Does the 4K ...
The world spotlight will shine on Chicago Oct. 4 when the 43rd Chicago International Film Festival?the longest running film festival in North America?opens for a two week run. ...
On March 10, 2006, award-winning filmmaker Esa? Mel?ndez took a camera to the streets of Chicago to document 500,000 people protesting HR 4437, the proposed Border Protection An...
WHO THEY ARE: Founders of two-year-old, Evanston-based Stone Face Productions, director John Champion and writer Jeff Kehe produce the webTV "BIF! BAM! POW! WOW!" at www.bifbamp...
When talent maven Patricia Stevens was going to marry used car mogul Mad Man Muntz, she needed someone to take over her Saturday night TV show while she was off on her honeymoon...
