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Top prizes to two diverse agencies

May 21, 2004

PENCILS? DDB and Leo Burnett, high-ranking winners in every competition they enter, were the only Chicago agencies to win prestigious Pencil Awards from New York's One Show hono...

33 Degrees opening new film studio, closing four-feature production deal

By Ed M. Koziarski May 21, 2004

Production company 33 Degrees is poised to open a new one-stop production facility and is on the verge of closing a multi-picture film deal including the sale of their fea...

Telling Truth in Chicago:
A Survey of Local Docmakers, Part I

By Ed M. Koziarski May 21, 2004

Drawing on a rich tradition of bluntness and iconoclasm, Chicago is home to a wealth of documentarians, from TV powerhouses like Towers and Kurtis Productions to national theatr...

Michigan’s Purple Rose comes here in June to produce $1 million feature

By Ed M. Koziarski May 21, 2004

"Dee Dee Rutherford," the third film from Bob Brown and Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Films, shoots here in June. "Dee Dee" is a comedy about the black sheep of a blue blood family ...

Chicago filmmakers advance to Top 10 in Project Greenlight competition

May 13, 2004

Scott SmithDuane Edwards Two of the original six Chicago Project Greenlight contestants have advanced to the elite Top Ten, competing to direct a $1 million horror/mystery fe...

Modeling industry sendup “Runaway Divas” is directors’ debut feature film

By Ed M. Koziarski May 12, 2004

Monika Szewerniak spent a week working at a local modeling agency that she said gave their clients false expectations to scam them out of fees."The amount of people they tak...

A Survey of Chicago Soundstages

By Ed M. Koziarski May 12, 2004

Looking for a stage? How big? Where do you want to shoot? To help you make that determination, ReelChicago scouted around to identify a surprisingly large list of 38 st...

Movieside marks video release of fest organizer Nails’ debut feature

By Ed M. Koziarski May 12, 2004

Movieside Film Festival organizer Rusty Nails launches the video release of his debut feature "Acne" with a screening of the film May 15 at Movieside, which also features ...

“Night of Living Dead’s” Romero live May 15-16 at Movieside horror fest

May 12, 2004

Horror/sci-fi fans will be thrilled to death May 15-16 to see legendary "Night of the Living Dead" writer/director George Romero when he makes a rare Chicago appearance at...

Black 476 member charges white union members with racial harassment

May 12, 2004

Two grisly photographs of the mutilation of a dead black man and an ominous caption given to an African-American Local 476 member by two white union members working on P...

Tribeca screening for local indie

May 12, 2004

A Chicago-made indie film screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival last week. "Boricua," a story about a diverse array of characters living in Humboldt Park and ...

A first: An independent audio studio operates inside Leo Burnett offices

May 12, 2004

Two business friends have launched an idea whose time has come: An outside-operated in-house production service within a major agency. Chicago Recording veterans Mindy Verson...

Chicago team pitches wage tax credit incentive to Madison Avenue producers

May 12, 2004

A whirlwind two-and-a-half day visit to New York ad agencies to promote commercial production in Chicago was "an unqualified success," said AICP Midwest president Mark Eg...

Church donations fund 35mm feature

By Ed M. Koziarski May 12, 2004

Jon Ross has the church to thank for the chance to produce and star in a 35mm feature film from his own script, "Love's Curves."Since January, Ross and co- producer John Ro...

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