A video celebrating the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 100th anniversary was created by Swell's Bazooka graphics division entirely from archival materials, via agency Ebel ...
Three locally-made features screen this month at the Polish Film Festival in America and the Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.The improv film collective Split Pill...
Columbia College production program director Paula Froehle has been awarded IFP/Chicago's $100,000-value Production Fund grant to produce her experimental narrative "Up On...
Ch. 11's 50-year archive of public TV content should be available online by early next year, through a new agreement with media asset management firm MediaRecall. MediaRecall...
NATHYN MASTERS' guerilla style apocalyptic thriller "4th Beast: Mask of the Antichrist" has been picked up for DVD release by York Entertainment of Sherman Oaks, Calif. M...
Headlining the Oct. 21-24 IFP/Chicago Filmmakers Conference were Academy Award nominated actress Laura Linney ("You Can Count on Me") and writer-director Dylan Kidd. F...
Donius presided over her first IFP Filmmakers Conference Oct. 21-24, featuring an expanded four-day schedule, a higher-profile roster of national figures and attendees fro...
Funeral services will be held for veteran DP Brian Claire Nov. 4 at the Sacred Heart Church in Marengo, Ill. The veteran director of photography, 52, died in his home after a b...
EMMY-WINNING WRITER RICK CLEVELAND ("The West Wing" and "Six Feet Under") returned last Monday (10/25) to the Off-Loop theatre he co-founded, American Theatre Company, and tore ...
A Utah professor developing a robotic brain and the sponsor of an annual artificial intelligence contest are two of Ken Gumbs' first interviews for his feature documentary "It's...
If they build it, will they come? That's the expectation of Canadian-owned Raleigh Studios of Santa Monica, and the local developers behind the $43.7 million Central City Studi...
After playing for 43 weeks in Grand Rapids, "Uncle Nino," the heartwarming Robert Shallcross-David James independent family feature, has signed a deal with a Chicago-based...
O'Connor Casting added full-time session director Lynn Ann Bernatowicz, a former play director for Goodman, Shattered Globe, Circle and University of Pittsburgh theatres. ...
As the countdown to the election moves into its final days, Suree Towfighnia and Andrew Piccone are racing to keep their political comedy "Plan B" true to the unfolding re...
ANUP KURIAN'S debut feature "Manasarovar" is India's official entry in the British Film Institute's London Film Festival Oct. 31. The London fest will be the official pr...
Bill Hogan Jr., long-time leader of Teamsters Local 714, whose members are movie industry vehicle drivers, has been cited as a focus in the investigation of Chicago Teamst...
Two local feature docs head up an expanded presence for documentaries at the 13th Annual IFP/ Chicago Filmmakers Conference that begins Thursday, Oct. 21."The heightened pr...
Record label Sonic Wave International cements its expansion into visual media with the completion of its first documentary, "Ancient India Today," being shopped to the Tra...
Man-Sung Son of SMS Productions said the 35mm feature he's producing, "Missed It," could shoot here or in Columbus next January.Director Brian Southers has secured locations...
If you've always wanted a peek inside the homes of morning radio DJ's Mancow Muller of Q101 or Mike North of The Score, your chance is here, via the celebrity house tour s...