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Chicago director’s Indian feature garners international acclaim

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 7, 2004

Chicago filmmaker Satish Menon walked across a stage in New York a few weeks ago and received an award from fellow Indian expatriate Salman Rushdie. The renowned novelist...

Writer raises idea of converting County Hospital into film production center

Jan 7, 2004

Lerner newspaper columnist Ed Schwartz is promoting the idea that the old Cook County Hospital, that County Board president John Stroger is just itching to demolish, could...

Monthly DVD and CD releases of short films/music are free, thanks to ads

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 7, 2004

Rich Seng wants to be an underground media mogul and he could be well on his way with his new concept: Cherry Bomb, free, monthly DVD compilations of film shorts and music...

In expectation of its first TV series, TeamWorks expands facility, staff

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 7, 2004

When Chicago Bull Jay Williams visited the United Center in December, for the first time since his debilitating motorcycle injury last summer, TeamWorks Media was right th...

Turner, Altman and “The Company”

Jan 7, 2004

By Jan Lisa Huttner After a long professional acquaintance that began on an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," director Robert Altman and screenwriter Barbara Turner...

Moline’s Silver Oaks shoots 5-camera HD Christmas concert for PBS

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 7, 2004

Moline-based Silver Oaks Communications undertook an ambitious project for its first HD production: a five- camera shoot of the 14th Annual First Presbyterian Church Christ...

Heaven-ly film submissions sought

Jan 7, 2004

Wicker Park's Heaven Gallery ? the people responsible for the upcoming Z Film Festival ? is planning monthly screenings and seeks film/video submissions. The Jan. 10-1...

Two 10-Second Kellogg’s spots by Radar

Jan 7, 2004

Scooby Doo promos created by Radar's live action and CGI magic, a boy at breakfast pulls off a mask from a box to reveal Scooby Doo cereal in one and a cheese crackers box...

The Original Up and Down the Avenue

Jan 7, 2004

Leo Burnett could see departure of the $40 million Sara Lee account this month. Pitching it are Element 79 and O&M, Chicago, TBWA/Chiat/Day, L.A. and McKinney & Silver,...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes 1/7/04

Jan 7, 2004

MARTIN ON HIS OWN. Ace editor Alarick Martin amicably departed Spots BME after three-and-a- half years to work as an independent editor. "It was time to move on," he said....

Earhole scores 8 Nokia Snoop Dogg spots, directed by Guy Ritchie

Jan 7, 2004

Tom Wiebe's new Earhole Studios started off with the proverbial bang. Its first job was original music for the big-budget Nokia phone spots that aired during the college ...

Story Companies’ Androw ascends to lead national AICP’s 479 members

Jan 7, 2004

Mark Androw has been traveling to New York and California on AICP business at least four times a year for the last 15 years serving on the national board in various influ...

1979 seems like yesterday

Jan 7, 2004

By Ruth L Ratny Twenty-five years ago, in January, 1979, I launched Screen the Weekly Newsletter. My friend, the astrologer Laurie Brady, advised an auspicious start wou...

Women, drag kings act in gender-bending sendup of

By Ed M. Koziarski Jan 7, 2004

When Michele Mahoney first saw Mike Nichols' classic "The Graduate" in its original 1967 release, she was both inspired and disappointed."I related to Ben (Dustin Hoffman), ...

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