With his horror movie "The Evil One" due out on video from Lion's Gate in August, Parris Reaves is gearing up to return to his DIY roots for a pair of Christian films."The...
Documentarian Faith Pennick was talking with her schoolteacher friend about abortion in the context of national elections when her friend made a statement that would set P...
The Community Film Workshop of Chicago hasn't been around as long as, say, Columbia College, but it sure has done its share of video training since it opened back in 1971. Now ...
Mutual respect and a working relationship and friendship over a dozen years resulted in new Airstream Audio, the creative post facility of award-winning engineer David Axe...
It took Leah Elder less than a New York minute to land a job in L.A. as assistant to the producer of a new TV show, "LAX." Elder, daughter of Luminair's Beth and George Elder, ...
South Sider Ozzie Guillen of the White Sox (left) squares off against North Sider Dusty Baker of the Cubs for the best Subway sandwich. Each believes the sandwich he made is ...
STANDUP COMIC DARYL MOON wrapped production in early May on his feature directorial debut, the office war satire "The House of Water and Light." "Nicholas Prigge and I st...
Seattle corporate producer Martin Whitehead is set to direct his feature debut here this July, the digital supernatural thriller "The Promise Keeper."Whitehead and his New Y...
John Borowski has self-released 1,000 signed and numbered DVDs of his hour-long documentary "H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer." It details the life and exploits...
A bronze telly went to FIDO Films and Mark McCarville's 19-minute documentary "HMX-1 55th Reunion," a segment of FIDO 's two-hour in-progress doc "Marine One," tracing the...
BEYONDMEDIA 7013 N. Glenwood Ave. Salome Chasnoff, 773/973-2280 Non-profit media education and production company partners with community organizations to produce docs ab...
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR. Michigan Avenue gets a welcome dash of international glitz and know-how with the arrival of Graham Woodall, JWT's new ECD, who heads creative and productio...
One day about six weeks ago, advertising photographer and loyal Democrat Steve Ewert got more steamed up than usual over something President Bush said. "We gotta do somet...
The Chicago animation scene is dominated by commercial broadcast, many top firms being divisions of larger post houses or production companies, like Superior Street's Flux...
Reveling in a sleazy, DIY iconoclasm, for 30 years Lloyd Kaufman has presided over the oldest continuously operating independent production company and distributor: Troma ...
Regular collaborators Joe Estevez and Robert Z'Dar are starring together in "Drawing Blood," the third feature from Tripod Films, now in production in the west suburbs.Producer ...
Bob Scarpelli, DDB Chicago chairman/DDB U.S. chief creative officer (third from left) receives congratulations on receiving the AAF Silver Medal Award from Dick Rogers, DDB pres...
STANDUP COMIC DARYL MOON wrapped production in early May on his feature directorial debut, the office war satire "The House of Water and Light." "Nicholas Prigge and I started ...
The hard-won wage tax credit to benefit Illinois filmmaking will expire Jan. 1, 2005. The bill that would have extended the tax credit for an additional year never made it to a...
A second season of 13 "Soundstage" episodes launches June 17 on Ch. 11 and national PBS with a line-up of today's hottest performers. First show is a Fleetwood Mac concert perf...
