SLAMDANCE'S TOP PRIZE goes to Chicago filmmakers Bob Hercules of Media Process Group and Cheryl Pugh . Their "Forgiving Dr. Mengele" won Slamdance's Special Jury Recog...

Musical heavy hitters R. Kelly and Talib Kweli joined Team Works Media's usual roster of major sports entities, like Big Ten Basketball and the 1985 Chicago Bears, on recent pro...

"I love Chicago comedy. The artists are funny, intelligent, have a great work ethic and a strong point of view. In L.A. it's easier to find good pizza than those qualities."?Jim...

The Illinois Production Alliance (IPA) has been a major force behind the Illinois Production Services Tax Credit Act, the main catalyst for the rebound in state production r...

Steven Spielberg is in preproduction for a movie about Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Film Commission would like to see the 16th president's story actually filmed in his ho...

BOB HERCULES and CHERI PUGH'S "Forgiving Dr. Mengele" is one of only nine documentaries screening in the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Jan. 22 and Jan. 25, "...

JASON ROSIN, former Local 600 business manager, starts his new job Jan. 23 as business manager of IA Studio Mechanics Local 491, with a membership of 550. Rosin will head...

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...