“Boxboarders,” George Elder’s teen comedy, goes into national DVD distribution July 29, via Peace Arch Entertainment Group, the Canadian company best known for having brought “The Tudors” series to
SELLING THEIR WARES at Location Expo in L.A. this week is what Scott Robbe would call “A Third Coast coalition” as film office heads and associates
The world keeps changing, says Luminair Film Productions CEO George Elder, who continues to adapt to those changes, which is why his company at the 20-year mark is thriving
PAULA ZAHN hosts “Retirement Revolution,” a two-part PBS documentary about the challenges and solutions of retirement that face America’s largest generation.
Produced and directed
HERE’S A REEL DEAL. Get free tickets to the screening of Jeff Garlin’s “I Want Someone to eat Cheese With” at the Nov. 6 Midwest Independent Film
SUREE TOWFIGHNIA’S “Standing Silent Nation” won marijuana magazine High Times’ 2007 Stony Award for Best Documentary.
Alex White Plume, the subject of “Standing Silent Nation,” is the
While Daniel Kraus has made three features, he’s now concentrating on the cinema-verite documentary. The WORK series, as Kraus terms it, is inspired by the writings
Drew Weir and Ris? Sanders, husband-and-wife partners in audio post house Vagabond, enjoyed a practical third anniversary celebration in May.
They invested in a $20,000
Israeli composer/guitarist/singer David Broza, barely known in the U.S. compared to his international superstar status, headlines a spectacular concert airing on PBS in December.
The internationally-produced “David
Emerzian’s “Spatulatta.com,” a cooking show for kids, lost to the Culinary Institute of America, “Living on the
Filmmaker Gaylon Emerzian had her “moment” of feeling like a Hollywood
WHO SHE IS: As director of the Illinois Film Office since Jan. 29, her primary focus is “getting the word out and helping people understand how wonderful our film tax
WHO SHE IS: As the effervescent executive director of IFP/Chicago since May 2004, leading the large, local independent film sector, connecting people and opportunities and offering on-going professional development.
In a move that took the film industry by surprise, Illinois Film Office director Brenda Sexton today announced her resignation as of Jan. 31.
Her successor
“Cold War,” the first documentary initiated by the fledgling Keepman Film Capital, goes into production in January.
“It’s about the absurd conflict between Ithaca, New York and
A THREE-MAN TEAM will head DraftFCB’s ?broadcast & emerging content department’ as its called. They are FCB producers Chris Bing and Ron Lazzeretti,
In August, veteran filmmaker and environmental documentarian David McGowan will travel to war-torn Uganda to come lens-to-face with some of the world’s most dangerous, beautiful and endangered animals.
MEDIA PROCESS GROUP partners Bob Hercules and Keith Walker will produce a documentary on the African travels of Sen. Barack Obama beginning Aug. 18.
To
DP Jens Bojehegn will be on the other side of the camera when he hosts a segment about his historical Old Town house to be featured on HGTV’s popular “Small
Grants of $125,000 from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and $107,000 from ITVS will cover Tod Lending finishing costs of “Aimee’s Crossing.”
But there’s an
“The War Tapes,” the Iraq War documentary produced and edited by Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”), will have its world premiere April 30 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
