A Global Super 8 Event will be held May 8 at Chicago Filmmakers as part of 40 events taking place in 40 cities, held in recognition of the 40th anniversary of Kodachrome 40, Sup...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Chicago improv that had its genesis in the legendary Compass Players, which in turn spawned The Second City. Paying homage to that ...
Korean arts and media group Yehyang Cultural Ministry is throwing its hat into the filmmaking arena with "The Gift," an HD Christian dramatic feature that shoots this May and Ju...
It's been a year since freelance editors Mindy Hilt and Karla Svatos opened post house Edit Diva, and while business has ebbed and flowed, they've grown enough to start expandin...
In the world of improv and sketch comedy, Chicago reigns supreme. Nowhere is that more evident than in the eighth annual Chicago Improv Festival, now through May 1 at the Athena...
When the DVD of George Romero's new zombie picture "Land of the Dead" hits stores this summer, it will include Rusty Nails' featurette "Stay Scared: The Art of George A. Romero....
JULIA LING, who guested on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," has signed to play the lead role in Nathyn Masters' Hong Kong-style martial arts pic "Silvergun Samurai," slated to shoot ...
Each of us five 2004 Chicago Project Greenlight finalists hoped to become the next hot director of the $1 million dollar feature produced by show creators Matt Damon and Ben Aff...
The Loop is reviving its (much) earlier rep for outrageous (but effective) promotion with a Chicago area search for the $50,000 Loop Rock Girl spokesmodel. The $50,000 is th...
HERE'S HOW IT SHAKES DOWN. The IFO's Joe Amari and Todd Lizak, assisted by intern Lisa Banks, will share some of the duties handled by deputy director Bob Hudgins who exit...
USAMA ALSHAIBI'S in-progress documentary "Nice Bombs," about returning to his native Baghdad during the U.S. occupation, has been selected as one of 29 projects to participate i...
Dave Leffel, formerly audio designer at Swell, joined Brian Reed's BAM! Studio as audio engineer for BAM!'s new, second audio suite. "Overall, the new suite adds to our curr...
One month after Tonisha Daniel and her family appeared on a 2004 radio spot talking about organ donation, she became a liver recipient. This year's commercial for the Illino...
"Milan is a beautiful city. It's a true European working city, very much like Chicago," said director/DP Michael Neumann of One World Productions. He recently shot a neo sci-...
Kartemquin Films is teaming with Tribune music critic Howard Reich to document the life of Reich's mother, Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich. Howard Reich approached Kartemquin ...
Juan Frausto's fourth feature, the immigration drama "La Migra," has its world premiere April 8 at the Chicago Latino Film Festival. "La Migra" (Mexican slang for the Border...
Paul Traynor of Hay Moon, Inc. is out to make "Witches' Night" a horror movie for grown-ups on a $500,000 to $1 million budget he's raising from private investors. Traynor i...
Cliff Grant has joined The Story Companies (Chicago Story) as executive producer and head of sales. He shares these duties with Mark Androw, who is also AICP national chairman....
Foote Kirkpatrick, as legendary in the music business as Universal Recording, of which she was an integral part for 20 years, is back in the recording business after too long an...
School of the Art Institute professor Ruth Leitman's "Lipstick & Dynamite" began its theatrical run Friday, March 25 on four screens in New York. The doc will have its Los Ange...
