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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...

Four big TV speed racing series put NeWave on fast track to best year yet

May 1, 2004

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...

Ordower develops “Jubilee” gospel music doc series; trailer screens at CCC

By Ed M. Koziarski May 1, 2004

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...

A Christmas date for “Proof” ?

May 1, 2004

By Jonathan Abarbanel "Proof," the film shot mostly in Chicago (plus some interiors in London) based on the award- winning play by David Auburn, is set for a Dec. 24 r...

Horror story is first feature for theatre director making the jump into film/TV

By Ed M. Koziarski May 1, 2004

From the success of his recent Bailiwick Arts Center production "R3," Mark Vadik has seen no less than three major opportunities to move from theater into film and televis...

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