Three locally-made features screen this month at the Polish Film Festival in America and the Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
The improv film collective Split Pillow showcases their second
When it came time for Panasonic’s consumer division to deliver on its agreement to supply new images for its multi-screen Panasonic display at Abt
Fletcher Chicago was named the Panasonic Authorized Production Reseller in the Midwest. Now included in its sales department are the Varicam 24p HD camera; the SDX-900 24p SD camera ?
“Batman” flew back to London Aug. 22 and downtown streets are back to normal after intense movie action was packed into a relatively short three
Former comedian Dave Grier has started production on “Bill’s Meeting,” a 13-episode talk show series hosted by former Frank Sinatra lead trombonist Bill Porter.
Grier,
WHEW, OPRAH STAYS PUT. The tension’s over as to whether she would or wouldn’t opt out of TV and Chicago at the end of her current contract. But we
It was 25 years ago July 12 that then-WLUP-FM DJ Steve Dahl helped seal the fate of the disco craze when he staged his notorious “Disco
It’s a big summer for Mark Harris. After writing several unproduced scripts for hire, his directing debut “Why Men Cheat” is in post-production at Day
by Ed M. Koziarski
This is the second of a two-part report.
MOVIEMAKING AT THE MUSEUM. A tremendous amount of work went into “Action: An Adventure in Moviemaking,” the exhibit at the The Museum of Science
Barely a year after its move into commercial music, Matteson-based GameBeat Studios picked up a Silver Addy last March from the Madison Ad Federation (MAF)
John Zwierzko, a.k.a. Johnny Z returned to JWT as a producer, engineer and sound designer. A 22-year agency veteran, he nonetheless was canned during a wave of firings
At a Salvation Army in Los Angeles’ gritty Nickel District, local production designer Wesley Tabayoyong interviewed more than 30 homeless people about the contents
Seven women have set out to accomplish what it took 14 men to do before.
The Women’s Cliffhanger Project is a more streamlined, structured version of the improvisational filmmaking process that
Executive director Rebekah Cowing will leave IFP/Chicago after four years, and the IFO’s Bob Hudgins now heads IFP’s new board of directors.
After nearly
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 filmmaker
By Jonathan Abarbanel
The Fire Commissioner was there. Not his assistant, but the Commish himself. Ditto, the Building Department Commissioner and the Director
By Jonathan Abarbanel
If you’ve got tickets for your favorite Off-Loop theater, better call first to make sure it’s open.
Days before Thanksgiving, Chicago’s Department
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