Now in its tenth year, the SilverDocs Film Festival, held June 18-24 in Silver Springs, Maryland attracts 27,000 cinefiles who come to catch the world’s buzziest documentaries before they
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
THE PILOT, “LIFE SUPPORT,” a sitcom about a support group for people in support groups, starring some of Chicago’s funniest stand-ups, actors, and improvisers screens at
A FUNDRAISER FOR CHITOWN, a documentary-in-progress from New York-based reality TV show director/producer Nick Budabin (Cake Boss, Kathy Griffin), who started shooting when he spent time here in 2011 producing
A documentary that came from the heart and began five years ago about a courageous woman in the local film business, who lives with an incurable disease, will have its
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
There’s going to be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on when movies about punk rockers like The Mekons, Detroit’s MC5 and The Stooges and special appearances by musicians, filmmakers and
BUSINESS HEATS UP NEXT WEEK when cameras start rolling for two pilots and a TV series. Both Dick Wolf’s “Chicago Fire” for NBC Universal and the second season of the
A PRE-FEST PARTY Feb. 23 launches Percolator Films’ 4th annual Talking Pictures Festival from 7-10 p.m. at the Hilton Orrington Hotel’s Indigo Lounge, 1710 Orrington Avenue in Evanston. Talking
SISKEL/JACOBS PRODUCTIONS’ documentary Louder Than a Bomb, about the local high school slam poetry competition, had its broadcast premiere Jan. 5 on
A BIG WEEK OF EVENTS kicks off Wednesday, Jan. 11 with a New Media Program featuring L.A.-based casting director and pioneering new media producer Susan Johnston,
GIFT GIVING DOESN’T END with Christmas in the theatre world. Three companies received well-deserved grants that will be put to good use, starting with the John D. and
THE “AWAKENING ARTS FESTIVAL” an all-afternoon, free immersion in the arts at Wicker Park’s Flat Iron Building this Saturday, November 12th, is the first event staged by Hesperidian
On the crest of Utopic’s second year anniversary in December, partners editors Jan Maitland and Tim Kloehn, and executive producer Michael Antonucci have succeeded in evolving their company
JOB OFFERS KEEP POURING IN for Roscor’s former skilled employees, 100 of whom were suddenly and sadly terminated from the 35-year old Mt. Prospect-based AV equipment company on Black Friday,
Come November’s 2011 Emmy Awards ceremonies, a very large number of broadcasting persons and entities among scores of contenders, will take home a coveted Emmy statuette as winners in 27
CHICAGO THEATER often prides itself on is the way that established artists work with smaller companies. The announcement that David Cromer will be returning to town to direct Jonathan Larson’s
IN OUR EFFORTS to expand coverage of more and different aspects of our vibrant and multi-faceted industry, the Reel will bring you news about Chicago theatre, with stories by the
Director Julian Grant and producer Boris Wexler couldn’t attend the New York City International Film Festival closing ceremonies last week, but fortunately two production company members did, as
