At the conclusion of the successful fund-raiser for Chicago Film Archives, guest speaker Haskell Wexler turned to founder Nancy Watrous and said, "This is just the start..." ...
Veteran TV show producer Jamie Ceaser is working in L.A. for the next two months producing "Movie Club with John Ridley" that airs Fridays on AMC. She was brought aboard by exe...
Only Illinois and Michigan film offices remain in existence among the once-strong Great Lakes state confederacy. Cash-strapped states?not just in the Midwest but throughout ...
Matt Pletcher of Baby Galigo Films said he's weeks away from signing financing deals worth $10 million to shoot two films here this summer and fall. Pletcher plans a Septemb...
Ch. 11 executive VP/television Randy King and "Chicago Tonight" executive producer Mike Leiderman have left the station. King quit out of frustration, and Leiderman was abruptly...
Assyrian-language film producers Strategic Entertainment take a step toward the mainstream market with the production of "Cousins," their new mixed Assyrian- and English-languag...
The 23-year-old Indiana Film Office was closed May 6, just 24 hours after its two employees, director Jane Rulon and project manager Chris Pohl, were told their jobs had ended. ...
Fresh off signing domestic and international video deals for their HD horror pic "Cup of My Blood," Lance Catania and Noel Olken headed to the Cannes Film Market to promote the ...
Superior Street and director/editor John Anderson's collaboration with music icon Brian Wilson began back in March, 1998. Since then he has directed/edited four videos of the fo...
The White Castle chain gets top quality treatment in a trio of comedy commercials with music provided by Spank! and edited by Bob Carr of Red Car for JWT-Detroit and directed by...
USAMA ALSHAIBI won the Tribeca Film Festival's All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature for his in-progress doc "Nice Bombs," a chronicle of Alshaibi's return w...
INDIEFEST CHICAGO has extended the submission deadline to May 10 for the Third Annual Indiefest Film Festival & Market, the only film market in Midwest, which runs July 29-Aug. ...
Just three days before the 1968 Democratic National Convention was to convene in Chicago, a riotous Viet Nam war protest erupted at Grant Park. Mike Gray, then a spot produ...
Actor/screenwriter Craig J. Harris' provocative hourlong drama, "Skin Complex," premieres Saturday, May 28 on the PAX television network, after a run on syndication that earned ...
Breadline Theatre Group artistic director Paul Kampf is in post on his debut feature "American Gothic," the $1 million 35mm Utah-shot drama starring John Heard ("Pollock"). "...
The film industry was bent on recommending improvements to the Illinois Film Production Tax incentive, while legislators focused hard on the progress of diversity hiring as cent...
Chicago is about to regain its once-dazzling reputation for jazz as production of a series on the music and artists gets underway at Ch. 11. "Legends of Jazz" is a 13-week, h...
Editor Sue Lawson doesn't mind fighting the "horrendous traffic" from Lake Bluff to the Adler Planetarium for a Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group meeting, "because they are so w...
Thanks to the state treasurer's Lights, Camera, Illinois! loan program, filmmakers Neil Luspo and William Pierce obtained a $300,000 low-interest loan for their fourth movie. ...
Michael Caplan's personal documentary "Stones from the Soil" premieres in 75 markets on PBS Plus this month. "Stones from the Soil" explores the impact of Gross-Breesen, a Je...
