“Hannah Free” sneak preview wows
“Hannah Free,” the Chicago-produced indie, had a local sneak peek screening at a sold out Midwest Independent Film Fest event on August 4.
At a producer’s panel
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“Hannah Free,” the Chicago-produced indie, had a local sneak peek screening at a sold out Midwest Independent Film Fest event on August 4.
At a producer’s panel
Dear Abby: It is very admirable of Leo Burnett to work with the Olympic Committee to help bring the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago, a civic endeavor subsidized by many
COLONIE, A NEW EDITING BOUTIQUE, has been formed by four former Avenue Edit veterans: Producer Mary Rieger and editors Brian Stepanic, Bob Ackerman and Joe
Culminating in six years of development, Steppenwolf Films’ first film, “Diminished Capacity,” opened July 4 to generally good reviews by major film critics.
CASTING DIRECTOR CLAIRE SIMON is in Detroit last week casting parts for a new ABC series, “The Prince of Motor City,” to be directed by “Lost” writer Jack
WHO HE IS: Dan Lombardi is the owner of Grand and Noble Productions, purchased July 1 from company founder/producer Thea Flaum.
WHAT HE DOES: Ensures their
Filmmaker Hurt McDermott is editing “Black Mail,” the first film in his two-picture deal for executive producer Andrzej Krukowski’s Akru Productions.
In development is the much
The holidays couldn’t be happier for Kelli Bixler and her Bix Pix Entertainment. The Chicago stop motion/clay animation company, located in L.A. since last May, has an ABC special airing
WHO SHE IS: Melissa Cutlip, a director of development at Towers Productions since 2004.
HOW SHE VIEWS HER JOB: “To come up with ideas that will become
Neil Kocsis’ directorial debut, the comedy feature “Sketch,” is the first co-production between David Miller’s Mindlight Films and his wife Michelle De Long’s Mimi Productions.
“It
Thirteen new half-hour episodes of “Jack’s Big Music Show,” the inventive live music and puppet series, begins its second production season from early July through August at Post Effects.
A MAJOR ROCK SHOW was captured for webcasting at the Aragon Ballroom by Third Wave Productions for client Network Live.
“It will be a
It’s fitting, the way Matthew Scott Harris came to make his first film about choice and destiny.
“The Weather Man” was shooting near Harris’ Lakeview restaurant
Rerecording mixer/Sound designer Pat Yacono has seen the future and there’s nary a spot in sight.
The future for his new Signal Hill Sound is independent
JOHN LOGAN, Oscar-nominated author of “The Aviator,” has made a $43,200 gift to the small City Lit Theatre Company, thereby eliminating a long-term debt that’s clung to City Lit since
Cliff Grant has joined The Story Companies (Chicago Story) as executive producer and head of sales. He shares these duties with Mark Androw, who is also AICP national chairman.
He’s back by popular acclaim. Bob Hudgins, deputy director of the Illinois Film Office, said he was convinced by “a long list of people” to remain
Lawrence Edwards, owner and operator of the Biograph Theater for more than three decades, has sold the historic film house to Victory Gardens Theater.
The Chicago animation scene is dominated by commercial broadcast, many top firms being divisions of larger post houses or production companies, like Superior Street’s
Drawing on a rich tradition of bluntness and iconoclasm, Chicago is home to a wealth of documentarians, from TV powerhouses like Towers and Kurtis Productions to national theatrical and TV
