STEPHEN CONE’S DRAMA, “In Memoriam” will compete with 65 films when it premieres at the 33rd Big Muddy Film Festival, Feb. 18-27 at SIU in Carbondale, one of the oldest fe...
Joe Swanbert has a role in pseudonymous Bernard and Bichard Shumanski’s locally-shot “tender sexploitation flick,” “Blackmail Boys.” TLA Releasing picked it up for the...
A scene from Fine’s “Cherry” THE 2011 SEASON of the Midwest Independent Film Festival kicks off Feb. 1 with the dramedy “Cherry,” for which Jeffrey Fine put his suc...
MUSIC BOX FILMS, the local distributor which has had a very good year with its "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Millennium Trilogy and "Mesrine," among other releases, has acquire...
A $75,000 DEVELOPMENT GRANT from the National Endowment for the Humanities was awarded to Maria Finitzo for the production of her Kartemquin Films documentary "Encounters with t...
STEVE JAMES' "THE INTERRUPTERS" is his fifth film to screen at Sundance and this time also has the distinction of being part of Sundance's new Documentary Premiere category for ...