HURT McDERMOTT'S 2004 Slamdance best screenplay winner, "Nightingale in a Music Box," has its New York premiere Tuesday, June 7 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn International Film Fest...
PAULA FROEHLE is in production on her 2004 IFP/Chicago Production Fund-winning short "Up on the Rope." Froehle is shooting on an elaborate set at Resolution Digital Studios, par...
For the eighth year, Blue Sky Video's Bruce Himmelblau donned his golf cap, picked up his camera and headed out to the Deerpath golf course where he'd have a short video waiting...
Rerecording mixer/Sound designer Pat Yacono has seen the future and there's nary a spot in sight. The future for his new Signal Hill Sound is independent films. In fact, his...
a Friendly's Restaurant/Laughlin Constable spot at a Friendly's in Kissimmee, Florida and a Kids "R" Us store in Orlando. Father (Adam Vernier) takes his son (Evan Nave) to...
From his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Guy Maddin has staked out his territory as the leading practitioner of a style that applies lyrical silent film grammar to aggressively ...
Media Process Group's Bob Hercules is working with political consultant David Axelrod to develop a long-form documentary on Mayor Richard J. Daley. The new doc will be an ex...
Leave it to Adrenalin TV's daredevil Duke Hillinger to come up with the next big rage in action sports. You couldn't guess what it is in a hundred years?unless you're one of th...
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 ...
WITH "SIX FEET UNDER" winding to the end of its final season, Emmy-winning writer Rick Cleveland wanted to find a way to pay tribute to Chicago, the town where he cut his early-...
The owner of a Texas equipment company is asking for local help in recovering $17,000 worth of camcorders brazenly stolen by a Chicago man. Craig Berlin, president/CEO of ...
THIRTY OPTIMUS "SPOTS"?not about the post house, but 30-second creative confections by all Optimus employees and not just editors?have been airing as commercials on Comcast. ...
SPLIT PILLOW'S CHALLENGE 3.0, the group's third annual collaborative filmmaking contest, runs Memorial Day weekend, May 27-30. Friday, each filmmaking team writes a short scri...
EMILY ARMSTRONG and PAT IVERS will be on hand for the May 29 screening of their hour doc "Nightclubbing: Greatest Hits," a collection of performance footage culled from their ?7...
At the conclusion of the successful fund-raiser for Chicago Film Archives, guest speaker Haskell Wexler turned to founder Nancy Watrous and said, "This is just the start..." ...
Veteran TV show producer Jamie Ceaser is working in L.A. for the next two months producing "Movie Club with John Ridley" that airs Fridays on AMC. She was brought aboard by exe...
Only Illinois and Michigan film offices remain in existence among the once-strong Great Lakes state confederacy. Cash-strapped states?not just in the Midwest but throughout ...
Matt Pletcher of Baby Galigo Films said he's weeks away from signing financing deals worth $10 million to shoot two films here this summer and fall. Pletcher plans a Septemb...
Ch. 11 executive VP/television Randy King and "Chicago Tonight" executive producer Mike Leiderman have left the station. King quit out of frustration, and Leiderman was abruptly...
Assyrian-language film producers Strategic Entertainment take a step toward the mainstream market with the production of "Cousins," their new mixed Assyrian- and English-languag...