Chicago’s film industry reflected the national trend with a burgeoning documentary scene in 2005.
The Chicago International Documentary Festival continued to grow in scale, prominence and
Deborah Stratman didn’t speak the language or know anyone in the Western Chinese Taklamakan desert when she went there alone in 2001 to shoot her documentary “Kings of the Sky.”
Filmmaker donnie l. betts first met Oscar Brown, Jr. at a workshop in Denver when betts was a young actor there.
“He inspired me to be the
The hour-long version of Bob Hercules of Media Process Group and Cheri Pugh’s documentary “Forgiving Dr. Mengele” is back in production since obtaining a total of $26,000 in finishing funds
HURT McDERMOTT has taken home another screenplay award for the dystopian thriller “Nightingale in a Music Box,” which he wrote and directed, the first feature for the distinguished playwright.
Hard work during fall and winter brings forth the rewards in spring and summer. In full bloom this week are commercials honored by the AICP Show in New York June
Life is a Dream Productions is developing its $500,000 HD feature drama “Gray, White & Black,” from acclaimed Yugoslav-born director I. Michael Toth, to shoot here and in Paris this
From his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Guy Maddin has staked out his territory as the leading practitioner of a style that applies lyrical silent film grammar to aggressively disturbing themes.<!--
JOHN MALKOVICH stars in the indie production “Drunkboat” that shoots May 23-June 25. Writer/director is Chicago native and theatre director Bob Meyer who, like
JULIA LING, who guested on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has signed to play the lead role in Nathyn Masters’ Hong Kong-style martial arts pic “Silvergun Samurai,” slated to shoot on
Paul Traynor of Hay Moon, Inc. is out to make “Witches’ Night” a horror movie for grown-ups on a $500,000 to $1 million budget he’s raising from private investors.
GERARD JAMROZ of Lincolnhead Productions completed postproduction on his debut feature “Chicago Poems.” The black and white, DV ensemble drama follows the intertwining stories of three couples: a boxer
In just three years, the Chicago International Documentary Festival has grown into one of the nation’s premiere showcases for nonfiction film, boasting 110 films selected from a pool of 1,738
RICARDO ISLAS of Alpha Studios has two features in local fests this April. His 2003 16mm bilingual thriller “Para Matar a un Asesino/To Kill a Killer” will show in
Tod Lending follows up his Oscar-nominated “Legacy” with the new doc “Omar and Pete,” premiering April 6 in the Chicago International Documentary Festival’s Grand Prix Competition.
Music documentarian Lauri Feldman has seen her career take a substantial turn with “The Innocent,” her feature doc about exonerated death row inmates that has its world premiere April 3
NATHYN MASTERS’ debut feature, the apocalyptic thriller “The Fourth Beast” about a former army ranger taking on the forces of the Antichrist, was released on DVD Feb. 15 by York
A FIRST FILM by screenwriter/journalist Ytasha Womack, the feature-length “Love Shorts” screens Feb. 15 in the Patchwerx Film & Video Series. Womack co-produced with Jumaane N’Namdi, owner of G.R. N’Namdi
LANCE CATANIA of X-Ray Productions has completed post on his debut feature, the HD horror pic “Cup of My Blood.” Catania, a seasoned commercial
MICHAEL OJEDA’S debut feature “Lana’s Rain” will be released Jan.18 on DVD by Chatsworth, Calif.-based Image Entertainment. Oksana Orlenko, who won best actress at
