Reel Chicago News

THE REEL – Trending Videos

Showrunner Anthony Sparks

Bad Luck Brian

Adopt A Stray online

Turtle Wax Streaking Community

Six years in the making, low-budget horror feature ready for release

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 28, 2004

He sold the farm to cover film costs and mortgaged his house to pay for postproduction, but John Swanson has made his movie ? a self-financed, under-$100,000 horror flick.The fi...

Actress Hall seriously hurt in accident

Jan 28, 2004

Chicago actress Irma P. Hall remains in serious condition at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after a Saturday head-on collision. She has undergone open heart surgery for a pu...

Walgreen’s newsmagazine: a complex, network-scale, expertly made series

Jan 28, 2004

Walgreen's opening graphic was art directed by Swell's Nadia Hennrich. Dr. Lisa Thornton is the show host, and child/adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Bennett Leventhal provides a 2-...

Third Wave makes waves encoding 5.1 surround on Super Bowl commercials

Jan 28, 2004

These are busy days for Chicago's resident audio guru Hank Neuberger. Make that Super busy. He and Terry Fryer, his partner in recently formed Third Wave Productions, had an i...

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...

Columnists