Erica Duffy is MIFF’s new executive director
The Midwest Independent Film Festival, which has been in somewhat of an identity makeover since Mike McNamara stepped down from the role of executive director in 2017, is placing its
The Midwest Independent Film Festival, which has been in somewhat of an identity makeover since Mike McNamara stepped down from the role of executive director in 2017, is placing its
When you attend the 15th annual Oscar-qualifying Hollyshorts, you never know what treasure you will stumble upon. Make no mistake, whatever the block, it will be a thought-provoking treat. Daniel
Windy City film legend founded Facets Chicago, “a temple of great cinema” Chicago film legend Milos Stehlik passed at his home in Lincoln Park on Saturday, July 6. The 70-year-old
Ytasha L. Womack is an award-winning producer, director, author, and innovator. She is author of the critically acclaimed books Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture, Rayla
With more than 4,200 submissions, the 12th annual NBCUniversal Short Film Festival announced the winners from a group of nine finalists during the grand finale gala at the Director’s Guild
This week, the Chicago Underground Film Festival is turning the Logan Theater into an audiovisual feast.
The celebration is
The hour-long pilot for the TV series “This is Not Chiraq,” from creator William D. Pierce and directed by the team of Darryl Manuel
TWO CHICAGO AGENCIES, Energy BBDO and Havas Worldwide, are Best of Show nominees in the <a
ONE BOOK ONE CHICAGO has selected award-winning Maria Finitzo / Kartemquin’s “In the Game” doc about a Latino
BIG PARTY TONIGHT hosted by Corey Coken and Jamie Vanadia’s NoiseFloor to celebrate the opening
BAM STUDIOS added two new rooms over the summer to accommodate increased business in all areas of its audio post services, says owner/engineer <span style="font-weight:
SMASHING PUMPKINS’FRONTMAN Billy Corgan will become the star of a reality
BEFORE SCIENTISTS at the CERN particle accelerator outside Geneva, Switzerland apparently discovered the long-sought Higgs Boson or “God Particle” earlier this month, 137 Films captured the ill-fated hunt by physicists
THE RECENT NATO SUMMIT in Chicago is the setting for filmmaker award-winning filmmaker Ben Kolak’s indie feature MAYDAYS that he says is in the political tradition of filmmaker Haskell Wexler’s
Events uptempo during the second half of April (accelerated no doubt by Mars and Mercury, planets of creativity and communications going direct) also gives us a choice of more than one
14TH ANNUAL EBERT FEST Ebert Fest in Champaign April 29 will feature Prashant Bhargava’s Patang (The Kite), a family drama about a father and daughter returning
“PLAYBOY,” THE NBC PILOT, about the start of the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, about the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963 (at the site
MIKE SCHMIEDELER, an 11-year Towers Productions’ veteran, was promoted to VP/development and executive producer, from managing director.
Earlier, he’d been Towers’
GROSSMAN & JACK TALENT, the popular agency owned by veteran agents Mickey Grossman and Linda Jack, are now settled into their more comfortably configured new
KEVIN COOPER’S 3D dog comedy, “Shakey,” which starts shooting this month in the western suburbs, signed lead actors Steve Guttenberg (“Police Academy”), Beverly D’Angelo of the National Lampoon’s Vacation series)