Steve Ordower has a big idea to pay tribute to the legacy of his father, TV pioneer and civil rights activist Sid Ordower. He is developing a seven-part, high-end gospel...
When Steve Grein hosts a big party next month, he'll have more than his NeWave Video Productions' tenth anniversary to celebrate. Mainly an unprecedented flood of busines...
Project Greenlight entrant Scott Smith's stomach was tied up in knots all day April 27, the day 250 PGL contestants would be notified of whether they made the cut to the n...
Roberto Blanchard is rolling out the first of a three- film slate May 1 when he premieres his family baseball drama "The Magic of Summer" at the Burnham Plaza Theater.Write...
By Ed M. Koziarski Even as 2003 saw the lowest level of Hollywood expenditures in Chicago in years, one sector of local production seems to have remained firmly recession- ...
PIONEER EDITORS HONORED. Three spot editors from back in the day who virtually invented the modern post house will be inducted into the AICE Hall of Fame at the AICE nati...
As part of an ongoing effort to assure that minorities get a fair share of the work expected to be stimulated by the Illinois Film Tax Credit, the Illinois Film Office is ...
Rap superstar Nas stars in director Carl Seaton's $300,000 feature, "Sacred," that headlines the 3rd annual Visions Blu Symposium April 24. It sceens with a selection of...
It looks like the venerable Chicago Community Film Workshop will have a new home at Kennedy-King community college, reopening in time for summer classes. CFWC executive d...
A giant of the B-movie, Jack Hill, who started his career in the early '60s at Roger Corman's legendary American International Pictures, will be in town May 14 to guest-ho...
Barely a year after its move into commercial music, Matteson-based GameBeat Studios picked up a Silver Addy last March from the Madison Ad Federation (MAF) for a theme for...
Chicago made its mark in the 2004 Project Greenlight with five aspiring local filmmakers who beat 1,700 entrants to advance to the next tier, a select group of 250, who ma...
Alex LeMay was well into production on his feature doc "The Bulls of Suburbia" when he got the call from Universal Pictures. "They asked if we had any bullfighting footage th...
Alex Epstein, who got his video start at a tiny Alaska TV station, has brought his 20 years of television programming experience to Del Hall Video. As executive producer for de...
Waukegan commercial house Glasshouse Entertainment have moved into their new Chicago office and set up shop to begin production on their first feature film, "Throwing Stones.""T...
Mark Armstrong has gone through three versions, two directors and a manager in the evolution of his "epic gothic hip-hop farce" "Chickenhead Bound."It started in 1999 as a skit ...
This summer's hot ticket will be for "Mission Possible: An Evening with John Woo" June 12 when special guest of the Gene Siskel Film Center's June 12 Annual Gala will be the int...
THE WAGE TAX CREDIT BILL (HB 5180) is en route to a five-year extension, having passed the Illinois house and is now under consideration by the state senate. Originally a...
Chicago boasts one of the biggest and most vibrant independent film scenes in America, in terms of both production and outlets. To prove the point, Chicago is experienci...
Vagabond Audio is the new audio post house of engineer/sound designer Drew Weir and producer Rise Sanders that officially will open April 28 in River East Plaza. The full-s...
