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Producing pair launches animation festival and animation feature studio

Jun 12, 2003 0 Comment

It's an idea whose time has come. A full-fledged, super-sized, international spotlight on animated films. And it's being launched in late fall by a producing pair who brough...

Networking in Chicago, part two

Jun 12, 2003 0 Comment

by Joan Tortorici Ruppert In the digital age, face-to-face networking has become even more important as we relegate much of our communication to silence and text. B...

Ambassador Entertainment, filmmaker Ruiz shoot non-stereotypical Latino indie this month

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003 0 Comment

Rob Ruiz (right) and Hafez Ali Muhammad (left) are producing the feature film "Gigs" in Humboldt Park and Puerto Rico starting this June. Weary of the stream of "thugs and ga...

Bulletproof Film heads to Vietnam for veterans’ reconciliation doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003 0 Comment

Carmine Cervi (pictured) and his Bulletproof Film partner Ilko Davidov will shoot in Vietnam this August for their documentary "Teaching the Vietnam War: Reconciliation ...

Documentarian Hakim Bellabes produces $600,000 Morocco/Chicago indie feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003 0 Comment

Hakim Bellabes has just completed his first fiction feature, "Threads."Hakim Bellabes was at work last year on a documentary about the impossibility of financing an indepen...

Documentarian Hakim Bellabes produces

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003 0 Comment

Hakim Bellabes has just completed his first fiction feature, ?Threads.? Hakim Bellabes was at work last year on a documentary about the impossibility of financing an indepe...

The ultimate insult to filmmakers:
TV movie on Bush made in Canada

Jun 2, 2003 0 Comment

First "Chicago" was filmed in Toronto. Then the cable story of dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker and mayor Rudy Giuliani. And now ? from the people who should know much, much bett...

Backyard plants Seed for future growth

Jun 2, 2003 0 Comment

Seed, a new L.A.-based commercial company, is the joint venture of Backyard partners Roy Skillicorn and Blair Stribley and Science+ Fiction founders Steve Mendelson and Kevin...