The Film Center's Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video marks its tenth year Aug. 7- 19 with an unprecedented six local productions making their Chicago de...
The CTA Lost & Found is waiting for the owner of a Portabrace bag left on the bus July 6 to claim his property. Some nice person turned it over to the CTA and Carrie, of the Los...
A BENEFIT FOR ANTHONY COLLAMATI'S 2004 IFP/Chicago Production Fund-winning short "The Apologies" will be held Thursday, July 8 at Trace, 3714 N. Clark, from 7 p.m. to midnig...
It's a big summer for Mark Harris. After writing several unproduced scripts for hire, his directing debut "Why Men Cheat" is in post-production at Day For Night Film in V...
Ch. 20 editor Ricardo Islas continues his string of Hammer Films-inspired low-budget horror pictures when he shoots his lesbian vampire thriller this August. "Night Fan...
by Jonathan Abarbanel JOE MANTEGNA made a surprise appearance at the Royal George Theatre last week, delighting the cast and audience of "Bleacher Bums," the show about die-h...
TEST SPOT GURU and Daily Planet founder Fred Berkover continues to ply his years of expertise with a new company partnered with Swell president Mike Topel. Tentatively n...
"Monsters and superheroes" are the rage at this year's Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival, according to fest coordinator Willy Laszlo. "Each and every year ther...
It was 25 years ago July 12 that then-WLUP-FM DJ Steve Dahl helped seal the fate of the disco craze when he staged his notorious "Disco Demolition," exploding a crate of d...
Director Zack Parker will take his mostly Chicago crew to his native Richmond, Indiana this September for five weeks to shoot his second feature, the projected $2 million ...
DePaul University has put its resources behind "a motion picture company first and a classroom second" by launching a bona fide indie production company with the dual goal...
What made waiting for the phone call from Project Greenlight so nerve wracking for director Scott Smith, who was waiting to hear whether he was still in the game, "was tha...
Waukegan holds its first 24h/7min Film Event over July 4th, in which 10 filmmaking teams race to complete a 7-minute film in 24 consecutive hours, starting at 9 a.m. Satur...
Fletcher Chicago became part of national history when its small, unobtrusive robotic cameras were used as part of the international coverage of President Ronald Reagan's f...
Reel Wheels continues to roll under the new ownership of Kevin Footlik who took possession June 1 of the company and equipment of the late Pete Souchuk, who was killed in ...
Filmmaker Aleksandra Hodowany (right) is Miriam, a nervous actress whom Thea Emily Nelson as Cupcake interviews on her first day on the job as talent agent in the spoof of...
Robin Peters of production and multimedia company Dreamscape Design is set to direct his sophomore feature in Champaign this July, the thriller "Disconnect" for an under-$...
"RUNAWAY DIVAS," Monika Szewerniak and Aleksandra Hodowany's locally made feature-length modeling industry satire has its world premiere Friday, July 30-Aug. 5 at the Gene...
McDonald's VP/chief creative officer Marlena Peleo- Lazar was named 2004 Advertising Woman of the Year by the Women's Advertising Club of Chicago and the Chicago Advertisin...
