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UP AND DOWN THE AVENUE

Jun 12, 2003

Andy Madorsky is Grant/Jacoby's new executive creative director. He replaces Bernie Pizel who left the agency after a decade to open his own ad shop, Romani Bros. Advertising...

ReelScene: News and Notes

Jun 12, 2003

METROPOLITAN CHICAGO STUDIOS, the 22,000 sq. ft. of stage space and offices at 2500 W. Roosevelt Road, has officially closed. With industrial growth burgeoning to the west, o...

Momentum Entertainment signs
cable, video deals for urban indie

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 12, 2003

Ta'sia Sherel and George Wilborn star in "Love Relations," due for release on cable and video this fall.In the last week of May, Momentum Entertainment signed two separate de...

North Side dentist learns the pain of filmmaking with first indie film

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 12, 2003

Jet Chiranand just finished post for "Kyle & Heidi," the feature he made at his dental office Celebrity Smiles. When visionaries talk of synergies in the entertainment indu...

Documentarian Hakim Bellabes produces

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003

Hakim Bellabes has just completed his first fiction feature, ?Threads.? Hakim Bellabes was at work last year on a documentary about the impossibility of financing an indepe...

Documentarian Hakim Bellabes produces $600,000 Morocco/Chicago indie feature

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003

Hakim Bellabes has just completed his first fiction feature, "Threads."Hakim Bellabes was at work last year on a documentary about the impossibility of financing an indepen...

Bulletproof Film heads to Vietnam for veterans’ reconciliation doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003

Carmine Cervi (pictured) and his Bulletproof Film partner Ilko Davidov will shoot in Vietnam this August for their documentary "Teaching the Vietnam War: Reconciliation ...

Ambassador Entertainment, filmmaker Ruiz shoot non-stereotypical Latino indie this month

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 11, 2003

Rob Ruiz (right) and Hafez Ali Muhammad (left) are producing the feature film "Gigs" in Humboldt Park and Puerto Rico starting this June. Weary of the stream of "thugs and ga...

SPRINGFIELD LEGISLATORS
PASS WAGE/TAX CREDIT BILL

Jun 2, 2003

With the minutes ticking away to the end of the Illinois legislative session, the state Senate Saturday night passed the wage/tax credit bill that gives Illinois its first ste...

So you think your show belongs on cable?

Jun 2, 2003

By Ruth L Ratny Cable guru Ray Solley once produced for Ch. 11. One of the cable networks has a slightly bitter underbelly to its shows and considers every film it r...

Deaf Dog ramps up record production with exclusive new Focusrite console

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 2, 2003

Deaf Dog's new Focusrite console is one of only eight in the worldJohn Ovnik of Deaf Dog Music is on track to realize his longtime vision of expanding the spot music house ...

The Learning Channel’s “A Dating Story” to shoot 8 Chicago episodes

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 2, 2003

Ray Sheehan is searching for Chicago singles with photogenic lives."We go out and look for people who have visual jobs or hobbies or do volunteer work that's very visual," sai...

Bix Pix “Doh Doh Island” Hasbro video hits national Toys ?R’ Us stores

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 2, 2003

Bix Pix Entertainment's "Doh Doh Island" video hit stores June 1. Starting June 1, Toys ?R' Us stores across the country begin stocking "Doh Doh Island," a 23-minute ...

Edwards’ “Sullivan” confronts legacy, corruption in Irish construction empire

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 2, 2003

Gregory Edwards shoots his debut feature "Sullivan" this June.Gregory Edwards is out to tell a quintessential Chicago story."For me, Chicago is about buildings and large cons...

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