Superior Street and director/editor John Anderson's collaboration with music icon Brian Wilson began back in March, 1998. Since then he has directed/edited four videos of the fo...
The White Castle chain gets top quality treatment in a trio of comedy commercials with music provided by Spank! and edited by Bob Carr of Red Car for JWT-Detroit and directed by...
USAMA ALSHAIBI won the Tribeca Film Festival's All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature for his in-progress doc "Nice Bombs," a chronicle of Alshaibi's return w...
INDIEFEST CHICAGO has extended the submission deadline to May 10 for the Third Annual Indiefest Film Festival & Market, the only film market in Midwest, which runs July 29-Aug. ...
Just three days before the 1968 Democratic National Convention was to convene in Chicago, a riotous Viet Nam war protest erupted at Grant Park. Mike Gray, then a spot produ...
Actor/screenwriter Craig J. Harris' provocative hourlong drama, "Skin Complex," premieres Saturday, May 28 on the PAX television network, after a run on syndication that earned ...
Breadline Theatre Group artistic director Paul Kampf is in post on his debut feature "American Gothic," the $1 million 35mm Utah-shot drama starring John Heard ("Pollock"). "...
The film industry was bent on recommending improvements to the Illinois Film Production Tax incentive, while legislators focused hard on the progress of diversity hiring as cent...
Chicago is about to regain its once-dazzling reputation for jazz as production of a series on the music and artists gets underway at Ch. 11. "Legends of Jazz" is a 13-week, h...
Editor Sue Lawson doesn't mind fighting the "horrendous traffic" from Lake Bluff to the Adler Planetarium for a Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group meeting, "because they are so w...
Thanks to the state treasurer's Lights, Camera, Illinois! loan program, filmmakers Neil Luspo and William Pierce obtained a $300,000 low-interest loan for their fourth movie. ...
Michael Caplan's personal documentary "Stones from the Soil" premieres in 75 markets on PBS Plus this month. "Stones from the Soil" explores the impact of Gross-Breesen, a Je...
You've heard a lot about the Illinois Production Tax Credit but don't know how it applies to you? Then you've come to the right place. ReelChicago brings you the IPA's easy ...
were presented to Victor Garber, TTS alum W. Earl Brown and multi award winning Emma Thompson by The Theatre School at DePaul University April 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Thom...
The Whitehouse husband-and-wife CEO Charles Day and COO Christine Tardio on May 13 will leave the post house they originally founded in the mid-?90s as The Lookingglass Company....
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee announced 107 nominations in 23 categories for non-union productions during the 2004-2005 season. Winners will be honored at a June 1...
Horror veteran Gary Sherman ("Poltergeist III") returns to feature directing after 15 years with the DV serial killer movie "39," which wrapped production here in early April. ...
THE HIP HOP MUSICAL "Pluto: the Opera" with music by Justin J. Mayer lead audio designer at Swell's audio division BOOM! and librettist Idris Goodwin runs June 10-26 at the...
One of Bob Hudgins' last acts as deputy director of the Illinois Film Office was assuring that the state's vast collection of 25,000 location photos wouldn't languish in the fil...
JOHN MALKOVICH stars in the indie production "Drunkboat" that shoots May 23-June 25. Writer/director is Chicago native and theatre director Bob Meyer who, like his old f...