SPLIT PILLOW'S collaborative feature "Common Senses," a tribute to the 10th anniversary of Dogme95, premieres Oct. 21. "Common Senses" was shot in succession by five directors, ...
Ch. 11 is getting it back together again after a funding slump with the launch of three new shows the station will produce. "CEO Exchanges" hosted by journalist Jeff Gree...
A show that began with modest expectations of a slot on a local cable outlet has bloomed into a global multi-media experience that will be the model for future shows. Play N...
Pete Jones, the inaugural Project Greenlight director, has made the big leagues. He sold his spec script "Hall Pass" to Fox for a Farrelly Brothers production in a high-si...
What filmmakers on location love best is finding those amazing offbeat restaurants and cafes. It so happens that Chicago offers lots of unexplored territory for the dining adven...
Mike Meiners' debut feature "The Trouble with Dee Dee," a comedy inspired by the life of his mother, has its world premiere in the Chicago International Film Festival. Lisa ...
Action auteur John Woo was hesitant when Robert K. Elder first approached him to do a book of interviews with the director. "There are a whole bunch of massive inconsistenc...
Prog rock guitar hero Adrian Belew of King Crimson reunites with his bandmates in the rock quartet The Bears, in Film Foetus' new rockumentary "The Bears: Out of Hibernation." ...
SPLIT PILLOW shoots its fourth collaborative feature "Realization" from mid-October to mid-November. Eight filmmakers will direct seven distinct chapters written by seven screen...
JON JOST ("All the Vermeers in New York"), the Chicago native called "the American Godard," premieres two recent feature films Oct. 12 and 13 at the Film Center. Ryan Harper ...
DANIELLE BEVERLY'S documentary "Learning to Swallow," about Wicker Park artist Patsy Desmond's journey to recovery after a suicide attempt destroyed her digestive system, screen...
Danielle Beverly was an accomplished young TV documentary producer looking for a subject for her first feature doc when, in 2000, she heard that her friend Patsy Desmond had att...
With feature film production slowing as we head into the final months of 2005, Illinois Production Alliance leaders are defining an agenda for the coming year and issuing a call...
Ten months into launching their advertising art studio, StudioSatellite partners Alex Page, a longtime DDB staffer and Clay Skougard, a Hollywood studio retoucher are in the bla...
Harry and Joe Gantz are on their way back to Chicago to shoot the eight-part Showtime series "A More Perfect Union" based on the pilot they made here last March. Best known f...
The Chgo/LA Film Actors/Writers/Filmmakers Conference Oct. 13-17, starting with a massive Hookup Party on the eve of the Conference, makes good on the premise of connecting Chic...
CLINT EASTWOOD AND RYAN PHILLIPPE are in town through next week to wrap "Flags of our Fathers," the tale of the soldiers who raised the flag at Iwo Jima in WWII. NAMES IN TH...
Once editing is completed on the John Malkovich feature "Drunk Boat," I-Cubed will utilize its new Nucoda Master Systems to conform, color correct and polish the film. I-Cub...
Leading local documentarian Steve James ("Hoop Dreams," "Stevie") followed legendary producers rep John Pierson and Pierson's family to the Fijian island of Taveuni to document ...
When Oprah Winfrey toured the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for her special coverage of the disaster, Keith Walker was behind the camera. "Oprah told Keith it was one of the...
