THE CHICAGO DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL returns in its biennial incarnation with more than 100 docs screening between March 30 and April 8 at eight venues throughout the city. ...
Proponents of the Film Wisconsin incentives bill eager for the incentives to begin July 1, 2007 instead of January, 2008, got a chance to express their views at the Wisconsin le...
According to award-winning producer/writer Jerome Courshon, a Park Forest native living in L.A., "most filmmakers don't know the right strategies and they flounder around trying...
WBBM news anchor and radio journalist Felicia Middlebrooks will screen her powerful, prize-winning 52-minute documentary, "Somebody's Child: The Redemption of Rwanda" March 31, ...
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 dome...
IFP/Chicago will be one of more than 100 service organizations and vendors participating in the fourth annual Creative Chicago Expo on Saturday, April 21. Organizers from the...
Fletcher Chicago is the first camera house in the Midwest to offer rentals of the Arri 416?Arriflex' first new 16mm camera in 30 years when the SR was introduced. The camera,...
The Wisconsin legislature's recalcitrance to regenerate its tax incentives and bring business into that needy state is a mystery, as many states recognize the economic advantag...
JEFF KEHE and JOHN CHAMPION of Evanston-based Stone Face Productions has signed a deal with Orlando-based Transit TV. Transit TV will play Stone Face's DVD review show "DVD...
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, in...
WHO HE IS: Newly elected secretary treasurer/business manager heading IATSE Local 476, Motion Pictures Studio Mechanics?a third generation 476 member. HOW HE VIEWS HIS JOB: "...
It may be short notice, but IFP/Chicago expects a full house when it holds "A Conversation with Robert Townsend" Monday, March 19 at Columbia College. Townsend is shooting hi...
Chicago's premier post house Avenue moved its 63 employees and more than $3 million of new HD equipment to two state-of-the-art floors just blocks from their facility of 25-plus...
Four Door Films has begun an HD shoot in Chicago artificial intelligence-based music video spots, while guided by a human composer for St. Louis software company Imagination Eng...
Frustrated and angered by a lone, but powerful state legislator's refusal to push up the Film Wisconsin incentives start date, Film Wisconsin has called for filmmakers to voice ...
Kartemquin Films, the 41-year old social documentary collective, has reestablished a board of directors as it proceeds with a multi-year leadership succession. Board chair ...
WHO SHE IS: Jorie Landfear, an in-house commercial producer with Bally Total Fitness since 2005. Based out of Bally's Cumberland corporate office near O'Hare, Landfear often...
After 18 months on the festival circuit, Brian Jun's debut feature, "Steel City," goes out this summer under the Truly Indie banner, the year-old venture from 2929 Entertainment...
Avant-rocker Tim Kinsella sees his move into filmmaking, with his debut feature "Orchard Vale," as a natural outgrowth of his musical evolution. "The totality of my life experie...
"DIMENSION," the debut feature from Rusted Rhino Production Company, had its world premiere at The Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, Calif., where it was one of 14 narrative ...
