The Heartland Film Festival entry looks at the life of the late Ken Olsen, who founded Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment Corp.

A TV commercial for jeweler Reis-Nichols has launched filmmakers Sami Mustaklem and Alex Kosene into the advertising business. Their firm, 3rd Strand, has a growing list of clients seeking their unique storytelling approach.

The award-winning filmmaker behind such giant-screen gems as “The Ultimate Wave” and “Super Speedway” is developing an IMAX 3D movie focused on the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the evolution of motorsports.

Kokomo-based Bach Morris Technologies Corp. will spend $2.4 million to produce “Whoever Heard of a Herd of Fird?” a movie based on company co-founder Othello Bach’s 1984 best-seller “Whoever Heard of a Fird?” A Ball State University commercial spinoff will provide production and design services.

A locally born initiative to make a movie about the first Indianapolis 500 has cleared a major obstacle to getting its project to big screens nationwide by May 2011—in time for the race's centennial.

 A feature film—written, produced and financed by a locally based production company—is gearing up to roll cameras at numerous locations downtown.

A local group headlined by the creator of the movies "Hoosiers" and "Rudy" is spearheading an effort to bring the story of the very first Indianapolis 500 to the silver screen.

Legislators are weighing a measure that would offer taxpayer-funded rebates to production companies willing to make movie magic in Indiana--giving a boost to an industry that's been asking for help since 2004.