CRAIG JAMES PIETROWIAK of Squid Brothers and Scott Preston of American Stonehenge Films are joining forces to co-produce two back-to-back HD features next year. First up in ...
Mexican commercial director Julio Dominguez de los Santos is in post on his first feature, the English-, Spanish- and Yiddish-language HD drama "Hopeless" that shot here t...
FAVORITE SON Steve Poster did double duty when he was in town last week. The American Society of Cinematographers president received the Professional Achievement Award from IIT/...
Three years ago, when the Chicago Public Library announced it was clearing out its collection of 5,000 16mm titles, producer Nancy Watrous wanted to acquire it. After the li...
Punk legend John Doe has made a handshake deal to narrate Michelle De Long's documentary "Man's Dominion: The Complexities and Controversies of Animal Law, Animal Welfare ...
Scott McLain is doubly committed to bringing the story of Vee-Jay Records to large and small screens. The Los Angeles producer is developing two films, a narrative and a ...
Let's take a step back in time in order to bring perspective to Catherine Rategan's interview with Tony Lorenz, founder/president of 12-year old ProActive, Inc., a business comm...
Former "Barney Miller" co-star Max Gail will launch an online video series here with an eye toward getting picked up by a TV network.The two-time Emmy nominee has begun splittin...
When filmmaker Phil Donlon shot his short "A Series of Small Things," the follow up to his acclaimed "Wrestled," here last May, he invited assistant Mark Letchumanan to do...
Paul Oddo, Local 476's business agent is in stable condition after an operation over the weekend at the UCLA Medical Center remove a brain aneurism which had paralyzed his arm a...
SHERRY LANSING departs Paramount Pictures after 12 years in 2005 as a dual result of a management shakeup and the fact the last six pictures made under her tutelage were box off...
Jeff Garlin kept a 14-year-old promise to Pete Biagi that the local DP would shoot the comedian's debut feature.Garlin, a co-star and executive producer of HBO's "Curb Your Enth...
Comcast Cable marshaled its emerging video-on-demand (VOD) platform as part of an integrated, election-themed product launch campaign for Proctor & Gamble's Old Spice Red Zo...
A former Chicagoan now living in Texas had composed a song called "Red Planet Blues," and sought a clay animation company to create the story of Mori the Martian who dream...
A video celebrating the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 100th anniversary was created by Swell's Bazooka graphics division entirely from archival materials, via agency Ebel ...
Three locally-made features screen this month at the Polish Film Festival in America and the Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.The improv film collective Split Pill...
Columbia College production program director Paula Froehle has been awarded IFP/Chicago's $100,000-value Production Fund grant to produce her experimental narrative "Up On...
Ch. 11's 50-year archive of public TV content should be available online by early next year, through a new agreement with media asset management firm MediaRecall. MediaRecall...
NATHYN MASTERS' guerilla style apocalyptic thriller "4th Beast: Mask of the Antichrist" has been picked up for DVD release by York Entertainment of Sherman Oaks, Calif. M...
Headlining the Oct. 21-24 IFP/Chicago Filmmakers Conference were Academy Award nominated actress Laura Linney ("You Can Count on Me") and writer-director Dylan Kidd. F...
