Chicago’s three Tony Award winning theatre companies are ramping up the star power for the opening shows of the season. The smallest of the
Mark Besozzi’s Bird’s-Eye Media, Inc. is “re-packaging” its thriller “Roney’s Point” for a $2.5-3 million 35mm shoot next summer.
Producer/director Besozzi began developing the project five years
Less than a year after founding his full-service production company Bird’s-Eye Media Inc., Mark A. Besozzi has a TV series and two features lined up for
Hollywood reached out to West Chicago-based Syntax Media to edit a feature called “Working Title,” written and directed by Robert Foreman and John Norton of
McDonald’s VP/chief creative officer Marlena Peleo- Lazar was named 2004 Advertising Woman of the Year by the Women’s Advertising Club of Chicago and the Chicago
Elizabeth Donius, whose experience strides indie films and TV docs, was named executive director of IFP/ Chicago by the board of directors after a three-month
Not only have two Chicago filmmakers advanced to the Top Ten in the heated Project Greenlight competition, but a local screenwriting team has been named to the Top 100 round
This is the second in a two-part survey of local documentarians, who they are, their background and credits. Ranging from national leaders like
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
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