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Join IFP by Jan. 26 to screen and vote on 16 IFP/Spirit Award entries

Jan 19, 2004

If you're not a member of IFP/Midwest and you're an indie film fanatic ? here's your chance to join the organization and enjoy all the benefits of membership ? plus cast y...

Producer calls for deep incentives, not stages, to restore business

Jan 16, 2004

(The idea of converting all or part of County Hospital, as proposed by Lerner columnist Ed Schwartz in the Jan. 7 issue of ReelChicago.com) is a great idea, but our proble...

Epiphany’s Chicago-set feature to be co-produced by New York company

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 16, 2004

Epiphany Pictures got a boost in the long development of their dream project "Sweet Home Chicago" with the signing of new 4th Row Films of New York to co-produce the featu...

Optimus’ Duff is chair of national AICE Show in Chicago this spring

Jan 16, 2004

Chicago's vibrant editing scene gets a boost when the national AICE Show takes place here this spring. The third annual show will be an event that show chairman Tom Duff ...

The Original Up & Down the Avenue – 1/16/04

Jan 16, 2004

Y&R CD Jon Wyville joins Fallon/ Minneapolis as a group CD Feb. 7. His credits at Y&R include recent work for Miller and NASCAR. Earlier he'd worked at McConnaghy Schmidt...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes – 1/16/04

Jan 16, 2004

HIGH POWERED COO TO DK. New COO at Digital Kitchen is Bruce Hanson, formerly in sales and business development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and considered a very visible...

Theatre industry shows clout

Jan 16, 2004

By Jonathan Abarbanel The Fire Commissioner was there. Not his assistant, but the Commish himself. Ditto, the Building Department Commissioner and the Director of the ...

Mark Klein’s new MK Films is city’s fourth tabletop company

Jan 16, 2004

No sooner was the word out that tabletop director/ shooter Mark Klein had opened his own studio than his New York clients began ringing the phone off the hook, said executi...

L.A. editor D’Andre to Red Car here

Jan 16, 2004

Red Car editor Marc D'Andre wanted a change from L.A. and let it be known around the water cooler that he was looking to move. "Somebody heard me and the next thing I kne...

Prime Shorts celebrates first year
with Best of 2003 at Film Center

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 16, 2004

Xan Aranda recalls the "sad thrill" of seeing short films she loved at Sundance and other festivals."The life of a short film can be so fleeting," she said. "I wanted to be...

Personal doc on a ’30s German Jewish school to air on national PBS in May

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 16, 2004

Rudolph Caplan was staying overnight in an infirmary on the night after Kristallnacht in November 1938 when Nazis raided his school and shipped all the male students over ...

Partners Paoli and Halihan back from L.A. to make dramatic short film here

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 16, 2004

The Chicago expatriates of Soul Mate Pictures are back in town this January to make the company's third film, "Rain Today."Directed by veteran stuntman Carl Paoli ("Minority...

Four-figure “Nightingale” one of 12 features competing at Slamdance

Jan 16, 2004

Among the many Chicagoans at Park City, Utah this week is Leigh Jones. She's not at Sundance, however, but at Slamdance 2004, where the film she produced was one of 12 th...

Horror, heavy metal and art combine in feature, five years in production

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 7, 2004

Justin Baron is nearing the end of a five-year odyssey to complete his debut feature, "Peep Show."Baron began shooting the 16mm film shortly after he graduated from Columbia...

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