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Starting the New Year off right for much needed feature production will be a film from indie feature queen, producer Effie T. Brown. Come January she will be

It’s not retirement for casting director Jane Alderman, but more like a transition back to her theatrical acting roots. The trailblazer who put hundreds of Chicago actors on the

ABEL CINE TECH opened a Midwest sales office and small showroom in Oakbrook Terrace, headed by Kari Hess, and joined by production salesman Gregger Jones,

PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE in Stamford, Connecticut this week waiting to be admitted to the first live taping of “The Jerry Springer Show,” a fixture in Chicago-originated television

“Hannah Free,” the Chicago-produced indie, had a local sneak peek screening at a sold out Midwest Independent Film Fest event on August 4.

At a producer’s panel

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Michael Mann’s 1930s crime movie “Public Enemies,” which spent $25 million filming in Chicago and the state last year, will have various

REAL HOUSEWIVES OF CHICAGO are being sought for a Towers Productions reality series. According to Towers’ casting director Becky Cattie, the hope is

IFO DIRECTOR BETSY STEINBERG is optimistic that Chicago will enjoy “a very busy summer” of Hollywood entertainment projects, based on the calls the offices has been fielding

There will be thousands of visual media outlets in the next few years, said “media goddess” Laurie Scheer, talking to filmmakers eager to learn first-hand from this Hollywood

For the past 20 years, “media goddess” Laurie Scheer has been at the forefront of ever-changing Hollywood needs and relaying them to an army of devoted followers through her online

FILMWORKERS NEW GENERAL MANAGER is 14-year veteran Manuela Hung, who now manages Filmworkers and Astro Labs in Chicago and Dallas and Lift motion graphics

Emmy-winning producer Joan O’Connor is suffering culture shock.

Recently returned here after spending two decades toiling in the Los Angeles reality TV trenches, she says, “The

POLITICOS WEREN’T ALONE IN THE SPOTLIGHT at the recent Democratic and Republican Conventions.

Producer Carey Lundin’s alter ego, “Citizen Kate,”

Writer/producer Paul Traynor’s “Witches Night,” in HD, is a throwback to the ?70s horror classics, premieres July 18 at the Wilmette theatre, coinciding with its DVD release by Rivercoast

ACTOR DAVID PASQUESI’S TV SERIES, “Factory,” will bow June 29 on Spike TV, but Pasquesi may not see the premiere episode.

He is filming

MICHAEL CAPLAN previewed a screening of his documentary, “A Magical Vision,” a portrait of magician, philosopher and “celebrated teacher of the magic arts,” Eugene Berger June 5 at Film

CHEVY CHASE hosts an evening at Sundance for the world premiere of Phil Ranstrom’s doc, “Electrified: The Story of the Maxwell St. Urban Blues” Jan 25

Todd Haynes’ fractured Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There,” now in theatres, leads the nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards. Haynes talked with the audience after a preview screening at

DIRECTOR ROBERT TOWNSEND will be among the esteemed group of industry professionals celebrating IFP’s first Independent Film Gala, Sept. 28 at Salvage One. All