New space for high-def post facility Chicago HD
CHICAGO HD, the editing and post house co-owned by editor Steve Panning and engineer Gary Chang, has moved into 5,500-sq. ft. of new space at 1 E. Erie St, in
CHICAGO HD, the editing and post house co-owned by editor Steve Panning and engineer Gary Chang, has moved into 5,500-sq. ft. of new space at 1 E. Erie St, in
After five years of gathering dust, a Christmas CD produced by most of biggest names in admusic has found new life and a new audience through?what else??the Internet.
Acclaimed Pakistani TV and music video director and composer Shoaib Mansoor completed the two-week Chicago leg of his social-religious epic “Khuda Key Liya” (“In the Name of God”). It
HARRY LENNIX, one of the stars of ABC’s “Commander-in-Chief,” and Irma P. Hall filmed a trailer for the proposed feature, “Lemon Tea,” that producers Rita Lewis and Felicia Middlebrooks plan
Director John Anderson and producer Maggie Magee are wearing big SMiLEs as their “Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE” concert video heads for the 2006 Grammy awards.
For Chicago’s burgeoning community of active and creative independent filmmakers, 2005 was a very good year. The number of films?feature, short, doc, animation, experimental?enlarged, along with some decent distribution
Archie Fletcher has taken over the reins of PERA, shifting leadership from the West Coast to the Midwest for the first time in the organization’s history.
Fletcher’s
A DEBORAH STRATMAN RETROSPECTIVE Dec. 4 at Chicago Filmmakers, with Stratman present, screens her 2004 “Kings of the Sky,” that follows tightrope artist Adil Hoxur as he and his
Rich Moskal wants to blow up your film.
The director of the Chicago Film Office is actively seeking local shorts for next year’s Outdoor Film Festival,
Twenty nine Jeff Awards were spread among 20 productions and 13 theatres at the 37th annual awards ceremony held Nov. 7 at Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place.
There’s a whole new take on the four-day Chicago Motion Graphics Festival coming up in late January. Instead of one venue one night, GMGF will present 40 entries in
This year it was a tightrope, next year it’s a satellite.
Clayton Brown’s “Galileo’s Grave” follows Paula Froehle’s “Up on the Rope” as the recipient
Broadcast and home video distributor Screen Media Pictures has signed to release two Chicago independent features, Bruce Terris’ “Dirty Work” and Marisol Torres’ “Chicago Boricua,” both first features for the
One of the biggest grip/lighting equipment companies in the film industry has opened its first branch outside of Los Angeles and Las Vegas at Chicago Studio City.
Susan Sarandon received the Chicago International Film Festival’s Career Achievement Award at the fest’s opening night at the Chicago Theater.
Roger Ebert spoke with Sarandon before
L.A. grows a little more like home for Chicago expats in the theater and film industries, as Windy City Players host their Inaugural Fundraiser Nov. 6 at the Knitting Factory
RON FLEISCHER’S debut eight-minute animated short “Lemmings” took home the Chicago Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Fleischer was an animator for “Animaniacs,” “Tiny Toon Adventures,” and
Danielle Beverly was an accomplished young TV documentary producer looking for a subject for her first feature doc when, in 2000, she heard that her friend Patsy Desmond had attempted
DANIELLE BEVERLY’S documentary “Learning to Swallow,” about Wicker Park artist Patsy Desmond’s journey to recovery after a suicide attempt destroyed her digestive system, screens at the Film Festival Wednesday, Oct
It was no contest Wednesday night as Leo Burnett pulverized its nearest competition to take home 14 individual and two Best of Show awards at the 3rd Annual Chicago Creative