CHICAGO FILMMAKERS ON THE CHICAGO RIVER is a documentary feature that reveals the creative processes of Chicago moviemakers. Using the city’s famous river as a location, filmmaker D. P. Carlson places the directors in a variety of boats and interviews them as they explore the river and share stories of how Chicago has influenced their careers.

Andrew Davis, Michael Mann, Harold Ramis, John Landis, John McNaughton, Steven A. Jones, Stuart Gordon and Haskell Wexler are among the Hollywood directors who are interviewed. The Windy City's best independent filmmakers are also featured-Tom Palazzolo, Loretta Smith, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Louis Antonelli, Katy Maguire, Ross Marks, Jim Sikora, Michael Dawson, Ayanna U'Dongo, Zeinabu Davis, Chris Ligon and Heather McAdams. Along the riverbank, local film critics Ray Pride, Dann Gire, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert are interviewed as well as Chicago Film Office Director Rich Moskal and the Honorable Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago.

Camerawork by Greg Gricus and Ron Forsythe, edited with Mike Weber, Original music by Tom Krol.

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CHICAGO FILMMAKERS ON THE CHICAGO RIVER is now available on DVD!

80:00 * DV * Color * Stereo * 2004
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