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***QUICK NOTE BEFORE OUR SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING: If you’re a new screenwriter, it will interest you to know that my good friend Linda Frothingham is having a special First Five Pages Table Read event at Chicago Screenwriters Network this Sunday night, 7pm. You can find out more about it by visiting her website ChicagoHollywood.com. You can […]

Whether you’ll be editing your micro-budget, or any movie, depends on your role for the film. For instance, if you’re just the writer, even on a micro-budget, it’s likely you WON’T be in the editing room making the final decisions on what will eventually become the movie. However, if you’re the writer-director, yes, you’ll be […]

So, in walked Calista Flockhart… Now, when people hear her name, or used to hear her name, they’d think anorexia. Which was unfair, because while Calista was waifish back in the day, you wouldn’t think eating disorder. And, as to the little matter of talent, whatever it is, she had it. Which lead to a […]

  Interview with Gary N. Keller at The Essanay Center Posted on November 21, 2013 by minooallen Essanay Studios is currently running an IndieGogo Campaign to raise money for the preservation and revitalization of their historic film studio — the first and last remaining silent film studio. CMH is a huge fan of Essanay and […]

The film community in Chicago reminds me of a Matryoshka doll. You know what those are, right? Russian nesting dolls. Body within a body within a body. What the hell is Peditto raving about now? Think about the mainstream film community here in Chicago. Think about it like a big Babushka nesting doll. Seriously… Chicago […]