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Bilingual thriller produced for under $100,000 shoots entirely in Chicago area this month

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 19, 2003

"To Kill a Killer" director Ricardo Islas and DP Joe Passarelli on location in Indiana.Uruguayan horror director Ricardo Islas has a distinctive strategy to reach both Anglo and...

Bader Brothers’ film captures genuine criminal life

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 19, 2003

The Bader Brothers went deep into the criminal world to make a film that was true to the life of a professional burglar."We've always liked the crime genre but we'd never seen a...

From ‘Bounce’ to Albee to ‘Samurai’

Nov 19, 2003

By Jonathan Abarbanel Comedian Richard Kind joked about his Jeff Awards. Accepting his award as outstanding actor in a musical, at the 35th annual Joseph Jefferson Awards,...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes – 11/19/03

Nov 19, 2003

POST PEOPLE PRODUCE INDIE. Former Lakeshore Production colleagues, I-Cubed producer Samantha Steveson and freelance editor Gregory Poulimas, started shooting their indie feature...

Collective industry voice is urged to defeat new added tax on rentals

Nov 15, 2003

Essanay's Wayne Kubacki stresses the urgency for the industry to raise its collective voice to help defeat a disastrous tax increase if the County Board passes it at a Dec. 9 vo...

Cutting edge “The Cliffhanger” collaborative feature bows Nov. 17

By Ed M. Koziarski Nov 11, 2003

Joel Paul Reisig in the collaborative improvisational feature "The Cliffhanger," premiering Nov. 17When "The Cliffhanger" screens Nov. 17 at the Lakeshore Theater, it will be mo...

Urban-oriented Visions Blu Symposium
Nov. 14-15 to attract 500+ attendees

Nov 11, 2003

Sean Long's Tupac Shakur documentary plays Nov. 14 at the Visions Blu Film Symposium. Karon Hamlet wants to improve your bottom line. Visions Blu, her year-and-a-half ol...

Up and Down the Avenue – 11/11/03

Nov 11, 2003

Producers of "Weatherman," the Nicolas Cage feature, scouted the city for a full week with the expectation of filming here in late winter. IPA's first Membership Meeting tak...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes – 11/11/03

Nov 11, 2003

BURRELL NAMES BROADCAST HEAD. Burrell promoted Debbie Amsden to director of broadcast production, a position vacant since Sharon Kimbrough left the company earlier this year. ...

Silvershooters.com reps ad pros to
fill 22 different creative needs

Nov 11, 2003

Animatics, art direction, illustrations and storyboards are some of the 22 creative categories. Music composer Gary Fry hasn't disappeared from the business. He and many oth...

Looking for a few good men

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 ...

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