RICHARD PARO of Mudgeonsoul Productions starts shooting his feature, now called "Untitled Fringe Film," this October. The dark romantic comedy tells four interwoven stories...
Nixon Olanya and Evelyn Apiyo were abducted from their childhood homes and forced into the service of the Lord's Resistance Army, Olanya as a soldier and Apiyo as a sex slave. ...
Farhad Hossain's independent feature "Za Thake Kopale" ("The Fate") could be his ticket to producing a 52-episode TV series here next year. Hossain, who runs the production ...
JOHN PIERSON, the noted indie film rep will be in Chicago on a rare visit with equally notable local filmmaker Steve James, to tell their experiences filming "Reel Paradise" at ...
"Omar and Pete," the latest film from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentarian Tod Lending ("Legacy"), has its broadcast premiere Sept. 13 in the season finale of the nati...
A self-taught musician with perfect pitch, Jerry Soto specialized in music recording for celebrities to fledgling artists. "He could do everything," said Tim Powell of Metro Mob...
Resolution Digital Studios has completed the hiring of its management team with executive producer Mitch Apley, a 10-year veteran of Post Effects who starts his new position Sep...
After 43 years as Ogilvy & Mather/Chicago's anchor and biggest account, Hoffman Estates-based Sears cut the tie and gave its $640 million business to Young & Rubicam, effective ...
Just in time for Sundance last January, Brian Jennings wrapped the sound design on "Hustle & Flow," went home to pack and drove east for Chicago. As Craig Brewer's hip-hop re...
Rejection at every turn, finding and fighting with investors, and the determination to make "The Chumscrubber" despite all odds is what Arie Posin told filmmakers at Facets Mult...
SPLIT PILLOW and CHICAGO FILMMAKERS have joined forces to launch a quarterly screening series. Chicago Filmmakers will premiere Split Pillow films, beginning in October with the...
Deborah Stratman didn't speak the language or know anyone in the Western Chinese Taklamakan desert when she went there alone in 2001 to shoot her documentary "Kings of the Sky."...
A heavy dose of hard-hitting politics joins the staples of transgressive and experimental cinema at the 12th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which runs Aug. 18-25 in i...
EIGHTBALL FILMS' Caton Volk's music video with local electrorock band Assassins will start making the rounds of the prestigious Indie Music Festival in three Canadian cities, Se...
THE FOUNDATION post house expanded this week by moving into a full, 6,000-sq. ft. floor with seven editing rooms at 200 E. Ohio, from 2,800-sq. ft. and four editing rooms in th...
Chip Eberhart is out to set the record straight about the music he helped create. Eberhart, who runs the post house High Level Video, was one of the pioneers of Chicago Hous...
The Museum of Broadcast Communications documentary that's in the works by Brian Boyer Productions will be used as educational kiosk in MBC's new building and for future on-air s...
The strong local showing in this year's Black Harvest Film Festival points to the growth of African American independent film production in Chicago that fest programmer Barbara ...
LAUREN FISCHER is hitting her stride as a recognized screenwriter. On Aug. 31 her "Wish I Might"?winner of the 2005 IFP/Chicago-Chicago Scriptworks contest?will have a staged r...
