By having been in the right place at the right time, Wiggle Puppy Productions' director Mark Krieglstein and producer Sara Yule were hired to provide the documentary footage tha...
Half a year after leaving Bucktown Pictures, independent producer Leigh Jones is keeping a high profile with five films and an educational video series in various stages o...
Less than a year after founding his full-service production company Bird's-Eye Media Inc., Mark A. Besozzi has a TV series and two features lined up for summer and fall. ...
KYLE HARRIS of Liberty Movies shoots the first third of his experimental narrative feature "The Patriarchs" Aug. 7-25. The first section follows a romance between an olde...
Elizabeth Donius is two months into her job as IFP/ Chicago executive director, the first full-time director in at least 10 years, and she's excited about enlarging the 400...
Almost-nationally-famous director Scott Smith made it all the way up the fiercely competitive line to become one of three Project Greenlight finalists ? but did not win the big ...
The on-again, off-again Central City X Studios is back on again with a vengeance. The Community Development Commission gave a stamp of approval Tuesday to a plan to build...
VICTORY GARDENS BUYS BIOGRAPH. Victory Gardens Theatre will buy the Biograph, at 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., for $2 million and spend $7-$8 million renovating it into a new 299-seat m...
Director Bob Ebel has worked on many commercials over the years with DP Brian Clare and considers him a good friend. When Clare's health problems mounted, Ebel immediately step...
Hundreds of scripts and works in progress will be represented in the second Indiefest Film Festival and Market July 30-Aug. 9, the only film market in the Midwest. This year's ...
Researching the effects of methamphetamine abuse on central Illinois addicts for his forthcoming feature documentary, John Novotny kept encountering the same image from hi...
Parris Reeves' horror feature "The Evil One," financed by Florida's Maverick/Breakaway and due for video release in August from Lion's Gate, has its world premiere July 16-17 at...
Local 476's late Frank Hobbs had a saying: "When the stages are busy, we all prosper." After a too-long Gobi Desert-like dry spell, the hope is that the proposed Central ...
Q. How would I find out about upcoming film productions so I could see about submitting my info? - Hank A. Ahhh, that's something everyone wants to know, Hank. By the time f...
The Illinois Production Alliance elected its second slate of officers since officially organizing in 2003, headed by president Eileen Willenborg, SAG/AFTRA executive director, f...
Six filmmakers who have created films on Macs and edited on Final Cut Pro will be featured in a new Film Week program of shorts, July 19-23, in the theater at The Apple St...
The Film Center's Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video marks its tenth year Aug. 7- 19 with an unprecedented six local productions making their Chicago de...
The CTA Lost & Found is waiting for the owner of a Portabrace bag left on the bus July 6 to claim his property. Some nice person turned it over to the CTA and Carrie, of the Los...
A BENEFIT FOR ANTHONY COLLAMATI'S 2004 IFP/Chicago Production Fund-winning short "The Apologies" will be held Thursday, July 8 at Trace, 3714 N. Clark, from 7 p.m. to midnig...
It's a big summer for Mark Harris. After writing several unproduced scripts for hire, his directing debut "Why Men Cheat" is in post-production at Day For Night Film in V...
