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10th Annual Black Alphabet Film Festival kicks off in Chicago Oct 13

By Reel Chicago Sep 29, 2023

Black Alphabet, a nonprofit committed to promoting equity awareness on behalf of the Black LGBTQ+ community through the use of media and the arts, announced the 10th Annual Bl...

REEL MOVES

AbelsonTaylor names Joy Holbrook as director of integrated production

By Reel Chicago Sep 29, 2023

Award-winning health and wellness advertising network AbelsonTaylor Group has hired veteran production executive Joy Holbrook as director of integrated production, a new positi...

FILM

Michael Lippert’s ‘Sloane: A Jazz Singer’ has midwest premiere Oct 8

By Reel Chicago Sep 27, 2023

World-renowned singer, the late Carol Sloane is the subject of the new feature-length documentary Sloane: A Jazz Singer, directed by longtime Cutters editor...

CHICAGO FILM FEST

Billy Dec’s ‘Food Roots’ screens at Chicago Film Festival

Sep 26, 2023

Emmy Winner and founder/CEO of Sunda New Asian, Billy Dec, will be joining his collaborators at the Chicago International Film Festival for the screening of their doc, Food Ro...

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Jane Lynch gets a playday in new LEGO campaign

By Reel Chicago Sep 26, 2023

The LEGO Group has released its new Play Is Your Superpower campaign featuring the brand’s first-ever fully playable brand film, which celebrates the heroes that can emerge i...

UNION

SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP could meet within days

By Reel Chicago Sep 26, 2023

As the Writers Guild of America (WGA) nears a potential resolution with the studios and streamers, SAG-AFTRA, a union representing 160,000 actors, is gearing up for its own neg...

NEW WORK

Grubhub enlists Snoop Dogg to deliver new campaign

By Reel Chicago Sep 26, 2023

Today, Grubhub, one of the leading food-ordering and delivery platforms in the United States, is launching its new marketing platform, "Did Somebody Say." This brand platform i...

SPORTS

Taylor Swift boosts ratings for Chiefs’ drubbing of Bears

By Reel Chicago Sep 26, 2023

The Bears lost 41-10 at the hands of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. However, the real winners were Fox and Taylor Swift fans. Swift has proven once again that her...

Streaming

WTTW partners with Two by Four and Chicago musician/actor Common

By Reel Chicago Sep 25, 2023

WTTW, an integral part of Chicago news since 1955 has partnered with two other Chicago natives – musician, actor, artist, producer and activist Common and Ad Agency Two by F...

AWARDS

Quirks Media awards Shapiro+Raj

Sep 25, 2023

Shapiro+Raj, the largest independent minority-owned Future-Forward Insights Consultancy in North America, has received the prestigious honor of being named the 2023 MREF Philan...

STRIKE

Tentative agreement has been reached with AMPTP

By Reel Chicago Sep 24, 2023

In the final intense negotiations that extended through the weekend, The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have...

FESTIVALS

Reeling: 41st Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival schedule

By Reel Chicago Sep 22, 2023

Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival unspools 41 feature films and 12 short film programs over the following 10 days with virtual streami...

Chicago crews are hurting, where is the help?

By Reel Chicago Sep 22, 2023

Earlier this week, we ran a story about how IATSE local Mechanics Union 476 is hurting financially from the lack of work caused by the 143-day-old writers' strike and the 71-da...

STRIKE

The Iron Claw gets green light for promotion from SAG-AFTRA

By Reel Chicago Sep 22, 2023

The Iron Claw, featuring Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), gets the green light for promotional activities from striking SAG-AFTRA union. The Iron Claw is center...

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