CHICAGO – In anticipation of the scariest week of the year, HollywoodChicago.com launches its 2024 Movie Gifts series, which will suggest DVDs and collections for holiday giving.
Joyce Porter
Podtalk: Founder Joyce Porter for Inaugural Oak Park Film Festival, Sept. 12 & 14, 2024
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 10, 2024 - 6:46amOAK PARK, IL – When there is an awesome Village like Oak Park (Illinois) right adjacent to Chicago, it stands to reason that Joyce Porter, a prominent character actor, would put in motion the first Oak Park Film Festival.
Via Zoom: Ruth Kaufman & Sean Leonard on ‘What Did Clyde Hide?’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 27, 2020 - 6:39pmCHICAGO – What is one of the greatest survival instincts of the pandemic? Creativity. The Zoom web series “What Did Clyde Hide?” is the result of a creative effort from Executive Producer/Show Runner Ruth Kaufman, Producer Sandy Gulliver and Director Sean Patrick Leonard. Kaufman and Leonard talk about the series, naturally, via Zoom.
Interview: Director Marie Ullrich on Blu-ray & DVD Release of ‘The Alley Cat’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 17, 2016 - 9:14pmCHICAGO – Using Chicago as a backdrop has rarely been as kinetic and exciting as under the direction of Marie Ullrich. Expanding upon a short film she produced in 2010 called “Faster,” about a bike messenger in the Windy City, Ullrich went for a grittier and more emotional look at that world in “The Alley Cat” in 2014. The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 16th, 2016.
