Jim Finn's retro sci-fi epic feature "Interkosmos," about a team of international cosmonauts in the East German space program, will have its world premiere at the Rotterdam Film...

Chicago's film industry reflected the national trend with a burgeoning documentary scene in 2005. The Chicago International Documentary Festival continued to grow in scale, ...

James Woods and Peter Riegert will star in "Winter of Frozen Dreams," the feature debut of commercial director Mike Graf. "Winter of Frozen Dreams" is the story of Barbara ...

I love finding new takes on old favorites. My latest discovery came in the form of a little bombshell delicacy called "Manti." It is defined as small, ancient Turkish pasta th...

THE THANK GOD FOR HIP-HOP FILM FESTIVAL & ACTION CONFERENCE runs through Jan. 15 at Kennedy King College, 6800 S. Wentworth Ave. The festival is a production of the Chicago Loca...

Direct Spotlight Media, a company co-founded by Brian Perraud, one of five Chicagoans who competed to direct a 2004 Project Greenlight feature, produced the latest in its growin...

Bridges Media hosts the first night of the Jan. 18-21 Motion Graphics Festival, and promises a product announcement that will "change the meaning of postproduction productivity....

If all goes as planned, Mark Vadik's supernatural erotic thriller "The Thirsting" should hit the midnight movie circuit by Valentine's Day. An entertainment lawyer turned pla...

For Chicago's burgeoning community of active and creative independent filmmakers, 2005 was a very good year. The number of films?feature, short, doc, animation, experimental?en...

Director John Anderson and producer Maggie Magee are wearing big SMiLEs as their "Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE" concert video heads for the 2006 Grammy awards. "SMiLE" will...

HARRY LENNIX, one of the stars of ABC's "Commander-in-Chief," and Irma P. Hall filmed a trailer for the proposed feature, "Lemon Tea," that producers Rita Lewis and Felicia Midd...

Acclaimed Pakistani TV and music video director and composer Shoaib Mansoor completed the two-week Chicago leg of his social-religious epic "Khuda Key Liya" ("In the Name of God...

I hope this won't sound like those chatty Christmas letters that reprise family doings and accomplishments of the year past. Still, I have to brag a little about the Reel a...

After five years of gathering dust, a Christmas CD produced by most of biggest names in admusic has found new life and a new audience through?what else??the Internet. Now th...

Rich Moskal wants to blow up your film. The director of the Chicago Film Office is actively seeking local shorts for next year's Outdoor Film Festival, where selections will...

Nineteen-year-old actor and filmmaker Aaron Himelstein led the winners at the Midwest Independent Film Festival's inaugural Best of the Midwest Awards. Best of the Midwest be...

Paul Leuer of Printer's Row Pictures is nearing picture lock on his debut feature "Eden Court," the dark comedy he shot last summer at local sites including the Schaumburg Flyer...

When the elite of American independent, mini-major and international cinema unspool their work in Park City next January, Justin Hayward's "Divorce Lemonade" will be among them....

As his lesbian vampire feature "Night Fangs" hits stores in the U.S. and the U.K., Ricardo Islas of Alpha Studios is gearing up for his next production. The psychological h...

KARTEMQUIN'S DOCUMENTARY-IN-PROGRESS about stem cell research was one of only two American docs out of 41 international films invited to pitch at the International Documentar...