Film incubator Split Pillow premieres its fourth collaborative feature "Realization," a seven-part riff on physics and the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse on April 19 at Facets...
Grants of $125,000 from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and $107,000 from ITVS will cover Tod Lending finishing costs of "Aimee's Crossing." But there's an obstacle. Oscar-no...
You've got a short film to sell, so you need to understand that the expanding reach of broadband Internet access has changed literally every aspect of film distribution. New...
DP Jens Bojehegn will be on the other side of the camera when he hosts a segment about his historical Old Town house to be featured on HGTV's popular "Small Space, Big Style" se...
"The Engagement: My Phamily BBQ 2," the sequel to one of the biggest urban comedy rentals of 2003, has its world premiere April 24 at the Lake Theater in Oak Park. "It's abo...
The U.S. Supreme Court last week, without comment, refused to hear an appeal in the case over who had the exclusive distribution rights to "Veggie Tales" DVDs and other prod...
It was around 3:30 p.m., time for a break from work, which sometimes must involve a small glass of wine. I'd told Chezne, a producer who works for me and dining guinea pig:...
Echelon Entertainment 2 has signed with Mark Harris of 1555 Filmworks to release Harris' standup comedy film "Barber Shop Jokes Live in Chicago." "We'll distribute the film ...
AICE's Cage Match spring event May 11 is styled in a good-natured way after professional wrestlings ferocious steel cage matches. In the AICE version of wrestlers revenge, t...
Annette Galloway of talent group Diverciti Productions was looking for a way to "take control over [her] career" when her brother was the victim of an identify theft. That r...
Tax incentive legislation passed the state Senate last week 58-0, a good sign that legislators are serious about boosting revenues from increased film production and vying with ...
KISMET FILMS OF SINGAPORE hired Product Productions as its local production company on a commercial for Unilever's Sun Silk shampoo. The three-day shoot takes place this w...
Lifelong labor movement proponent Eileen Willenborg, who believes that the labor movement brings out the best in human nature, was named Labor Woman of the Year by the Chicago F...
When Betty Hoeffner, a PR specialist, heard editor Ernie Schubert's horror stories of medical goofs and errors observed during a lengthy stay in a suburban hospital, she said to...
IFP/CHICAGO on April 10 presents Meet the Funders, a panel discussion with representatives of documentary funding agencies. With Cleo Wilson of the Playboy Foundation, Enca...
DDB Chicago client Emerson Electronics, a $17 billion global technology and engineering giant, was more apt to advertise in obscure trade journals than on television. But th...
On smoke breaks from his job as creative director at Covenant Communications, Steven R. Luce would gather with friends under the bridge at Bryn Mawr and Kedzie. "We talked ...
Literary manager-turned-filmmaker Sean Carr shoots the location photography for his debut feature "He's Such a Girl" here this month. The Chicago-set comedy shoots here Apri...
A FIRE AT THE THEATRE BUILDING last week, ignited by an apparent electrical/computer surge, caused significant smoke and water damage to the box office and second floor admini...
One of the most important surveys of national advertisers conducted over the last decade shows that before long new media and technologies will radically alter the way their TV ...
