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Four theatrical companies lead Jeff Citation nominees for June 7 awards

May 31, 2004

Bailiwick Repertory leads the 2003-2004 theatre season Jeff Citation Awards, to be presented June 7 at Park West before an expected audience of 700. The awards honor outstandin...

IFO’s L.A. party pushed back to fall

May 31, 2004

Sweet Home Illinois, the Illinois Film Office party slated for June 19 in Hollywood for former Illini in the film industry, has been pushed back to September to give the organiz...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes – 05/31/04

May 31, 2004

AT THE POST. Filament Post has officially replaced Spots BME as the name of Bruce Frankel's editing house. "I wanted it to be a new company, now that we're adding new peo...

Indie filmmaker Elizabeth Donius is new IFP/Chicago executive director

May 31, 2004

Elizabeth Donius, whose experience strides indie films and TV docs, was named executive director of IFP/ Chicago by the board of directors after a three-month search. She ...

Fleetwood Mac opens second season of 13 “Soundstage” concerts on PBS

May 31, 2004

A second season of 13 "Soundstage" episodes launches June 17 on Ch. 11 and national PBS with a line-up of today's hottest performers. First show is a Fleetwood Mac concert perf...

Chicago writers make the Top 100 in Project Greenlight’s script competition

May 29, 2004

Not only have two Chicago filmmakers advanced to the Top Ten in the heated Project Greenlight competition, but a local screenwriting team has been named to the Top 100 round of ...

Swell’s promotes Kaneko, adds two

May 25, 2004

Swell's newest editor is Masayo Kaneko, who since 2001 was assistant editor in apprentice-like style under ace editor Ed Maroney. Originally from Kawasaki, Japan, Kaneko moved ...

Teams wanted for collaborative movie-making over Memorial Day weekend

May 22, 2004

The collaborative, fast-filmmaking event is open to filmmakers and actors of all experience and backgrounds. Fourteen movies were made during last year's Challenge 1.0 in...

State to fund $18.5 million for the arts; plays about real people abound

May 21, 2004

The Illinois General Assembly is set to approve $18.5 million for the Illinois Arts Council (IAC) for Fiscal 2005, the same amount as last year. While the bulk of the mon...

Experts, demos at May 25 HD show

May 21, 2004

The HD Roadshow rolls into Chicago May 25 with the whole nine yards of high definition as it stands today, presented by television experts Michael Silbergleid of Miami and Mark ...

Spot producer developing home makeover comedy TV pilot

By Ed M. Koziarski May 21, 2004

Glencoe commercial and corporate video company Production House is developing a comedy home makeover TV series that producer Mark Tulloss describes as "Queer Eye for the Straigh...

Feature depicts women artists living under the burqa; bows at Film Center

By Ed M. Koziarski May 21, 2004

Filmmakers Hossein Khandan and Shahin Yazdani followed three Chicago women artists through a day in their lives that was like any other, with one exception ? the three women fac...

Update: Indie production, premieres

By Ed M. Koziarski May 21, 2004

David Miller of Mindlight Films, who runs the Sangamon St. Studios in the former Orbis facility, is producing "Finding Preet," an HD romantic comedy feature, for IV Enter...

DVD release of “The Company” calls for a talk with Barbara Robertson

May 21, 2004

Chicago's Joffrey Ballet will dance on in millions of homes with the June 1 Sony Pictures Classics' DVD release of Robert Altman's "The Company," a documentary-like look a...

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