The film industry was bent on recommending improvements to the Illinois Film Production Tax incentive, while legislators focused hard on the progress of diversity hiring as cent...
Chicago is about to regain its once-dazzling reputation for jazz as production of a series on the music and artists gets underway at Ch. 11. "Legends of Jazz" is a 13-week, h...
Editor Sue Lawson doesn't mind fighting the "horrendous traffic" from Lake Bluff to the Adler Planetarium for a Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group meeting, "because they are so w...
Thanks to the state treasurer's Lights, Camera, Illinois! loan program, filmmakers Neil Luspo and William Pierce obtained a $300,000 low-interest loan for their fourth movie. ...
Michael Caplan's personal documentary "Stones from the Soil" premieres in 75 markets on PBS Plus this month. "Stones from the Soil" explores the impact of Gross-Breesen, a Je...
You've heard a lot about the Illinois Production Tax Credit but don't know how it applies to you? Then you've come to the right place. ReelChicago brings you the IPA's easy ...
were presented to Victor Garber, TTS alum W. Earl Brown and multi award winning Emma Thompson by The Theatre School at DePaul University April 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Thom...
The Whitehouse husband-and-wife CEO Charles Day and COO Christine Tardio on May 13 will leave the post house they originally founded in the mid-?90s as The Lookingglass Company....
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee announced 107 nominations in 23 categories for non-union productions during the 2004-2005 season. Winners will be honored at a June 1...
Horror veteran Gary Sherman ("Poltergeist III") returns to feature directing after 15 years with the DV serial killer movie "39," which wrapped production here in early April. ...
THE HIP HOP MUSICAL "Pluto: the Opera" with music by Justin J. Mayer lead audio designer at Swell's audio division BOOM! and librettist Idris Goodwin runs June 10-26 at the...
One of Bob Hudgins' last acts as deputy director of the Illinois Film Office was assuring that the state's vast collection of 25,000 location photos wouldn't languish in the fil...
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 his old f...
JOHN LOGAN, Oscar-nominated author of "The Aviator," has made a $43,200 gift to the small City Lit Theatre Company, thereby eliminating a long-term debt that's clung to City Lit...
"Prison Break"?the first series scheduled by Fox TV for its 2005-2006 season?means more than three months of production in the Chicago area. The pilot was shot in the Joliet Cor...
For the first time, producers can order replicated DVD-5 disks in quantities as low as 100 through Global Video's new DVD Century program. "We can now take orders of 100 p...
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL early deadline is May 1. For short projects under 60-minutes fee is $40, longer and feature length entries pay $80. Fees increase ...
A Global Super 8 Event will be held May 8 at Chicago Filmmakers as part of 40 events taking place in 40 cities, held in recognition of the 40th anniversary of Kodachrome 40, Sup...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Chicago improv that had its genesis in the legendary Compass Players, which in turn spawned The Second City. Paying homage to that ...
Korean arts and media group Yehyang Cultural Ministry is throwing its hat into the filmmaking arena with "The Gift," an HD Christian dramatic feature that shoots this May and Ju...
