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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 ...

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...

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