Saving $125,800 and firing two people is hardly the answer to Wisconsin's $1.6 billion state budget deficit. But killing off the 19-year-old Wisconsin film office to save money?...
AMY LIKUS, former Optimus editor joined Outsider editorial? SMS Productions moved to 1229 N. North Branch after a dozen years entrenched at 676 N. LaSalle. Phone, 312/440-8963,...
Former 37th Ward Ald. Percy Giles returns to the public eye after a prison stint with "Mel Bay," an independent feature on which he's executive producer with writer and former p...
INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS men's fashion designer John Malkovich will be in Chicago to show his Uncle Kimono line of ready-to-wear creations. What? You thought Malkovich was an...
With third feature "Realization," Split Pillow continues the evolution of its collaborative film concept as a series of filmmakers build consecutively on each other's work to bu...
The Asian American Film Showcase marks its 10th year with a 10-day festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning April 1, an expanded doc section and a three-month art exhib...
Tod Lending follows up his Oscar-nominated "Legacy" with the new doc "Omar and Pete," premiering April 6 in the Chicago International Documentary Festival's Grand Prix Competiti...
RICARDO ISLAS of Alpha Studios has two features in local fests this April. His 2003 16mm bilingual thriller "Para Matar a un Asesino/To Kill a Killer" will show in the Chicago ...
After decades of film school/festival exile, the film short-as-product is back, feeding a huge and growing entertainment market in international television, web-based film and c...
Barely two months after he resigned as IFO deputy director, Bob Hudgins walked out of the office at 2 p.m. March 10 in what was a final end to his eight-year tenure at the...
Award-winning spot director and independent filmmaker Ron Lazzeretti joined FCB as SVP/creative development director, a position created exclusively for him. "How many agenc...
Shockingly, venerable Swiderski Electronics has suddenly closed its doors. The Itasca-based provider of systems integration, engineering and equipment sales and rentals ended it...
An estimated 100-plus vendors, many of them women and minority businesses certified to do business with the city and state, attended the Minority Vendors Summit to learn about b...
Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos have seen their political doc "Red, White & Blue" grow into a $100,000 production with some major musical muscle behind it. Cowboy Junkies ...
VELVET STEAMROLLER PRODUCTIONS has officially signed on to produce L. Pat Williams' horror pic "10,000 Doors." Williams, who co-wrote with her father, composer Robert A. Willia...
Wal-Mart's first documentary made in honor of Black History month?"The Invisible Men of Honor: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers"?will air exclusively throughout the year on TV ...
STARS HERE IN APRIL. Director Marc Forster's comedy, "Stranger than Fiction," starts shooting April 25 at Chicago locations. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Queen Latifa...
When Chicago Community Cinema re-launches May 3 as the Midwest Independent Film Festival at Landmark's Century Centre, it will be one of the first fests between the coasts to of...
Liquid Generation CEO Bruce Freud is gunning for TV crossover for his successful online venture. Freud is adapting his youth-oriented entertainment site LiquidGeneration.com in...
Dalia Tapia has just returned from Mexico with the last of the footage for her Super 16mm feature "Buscando a Leti/In Search of Leti," which has its world premiere this April at...
