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Nov 11, 2003

The Dept. of Homeland Security isn't keeping it a secret that it's recruiting new agents for the U.S. Secret Service. Latinos are the targets in four, national 30-sec...

Stewart Talent’s Maureen Brookman dies after contracting West Nile virus

Nov 11, 2003

Complications from West Nile disease caused the death of Stewart Talent's film/TV director Maureen Brookman Nov. 4. Mrs. Brookman contracted the disease 13 months ago when a mo...

Ford Models purchase of Aria Talent
creates city’s biggest talent agency

Nov 11, 2003

Former Aria co-owner Marie Anderson is now general manager of the new agency. When Ford Models' bookers tried to woo away her models last April, Aria co-owner Marie Anderson ...

Two Voices Unlimited actors win
top Jeff awards for theatre roles

Nov 11, 2003

Singer, voiceover Joyce (Peaches) Faison won her first Jeff award as best actress in a principal role-musical. Mark Grapey and Joyce (Peaches) Faison, two actors signed with ...

Cullen, Daly buy back their Tape
Company from bankrupt Daisytek

Nov 11, 2003

The Tape Company founders Bob Daly and Mike Cullen took their company private from publicly traded Daisytek. The Tape Company is again operating as a private company in the h...

Cook County wants more tax dollar$$$

Nov 11, 2003

Seemingly since time immemorial, the film industry has requested, begged, petitioned and agitated for relief from the city's burdensome 6% transactional tax on equipment. To no...

IFO’s Sexton’s Studio City
remarks shock IFP audience

Nov 5, 2003

IFO Director Brenda Sexton John Crededio may sue the state of Illinois over the remarks its representative, IFO director Brenda Sexton, made at the recent IFP Filmmakers Conf...

Collamati wins IFP Production Fund
of $85,000 in goods and services

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 5, 2003

Katrina Lenk stars in "The Acedia Thing" by Production Fund winner Anthony Collamati.Anthony Collamati had just wrapped post on his debut feature "The Acedia Thing" when he got ...

$3 million Burt Reynolds?Chris Elliot
comedy shoots in Indiana

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 5, 2003

Burt Reynolds is featured in Mark Newbauer's $3.1 million comedy.Mark Newbauer has big plans for his fish story.In the space of five years, "Fish in a Barrel," a script Newbauer...

Gangster romance plays Nov. 9 at
Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Fest

By Ed M. Koziarski Oct 30, 2003

Tadeo Garcia's feature, "On the Down Low," plays Nov. 9 at the Reeling 2003 Chicago Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.Filmmaker Tadeo Garcia likes subverting expectati...

Olken’s human trafficking expos? in
debut feature “Slave” at Facets

By Ed M. Koziarski Oct 30, 2003

Erinn Strain stars in Noel Olken's "Slave," Nov. 12 at FacetsAs Noel Olken was doing research for his debut feature last year, he found the issue of human trafficking demanded t...

Catania to direct/lens his first indie,
‘Cup of My Blood,’ a horror film

Oct 30, 2003

Lance Catania directing/lensing Ch. 7 promos on location. It was inevitable that a filmmaker who owns a library of a thousand horror films would one day produce a horror film...

Novice filmmakers sell “Dot” dot com
mockumentary to Showtime

By Ed M. Koziarski Oct 30, 2003

Following months of negotiations, the Chicago-made dot-com mockumentary "Dot" has its television premiere Sunday, Nov. 2 on the Showtime Network.The film, by Sneaky Kings Produc...

REELSCENE: News & Notes – 10/30/03

Oct 30, 2003

TOURISM NARROWS AGENCY CHOICES. The local branches of three foreign-owned ad agencies got the nod from the Illinois Dept. of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as finalists for t...

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