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Even as it works through Chapter 11 restructuring, the Show Department, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Resolution Digital Studios and The Screen Works, recent staged two high-powere...

Video editor Brian Sarfatty of Evanston is currently editing Elise Jaffe's children's educational and fun "Fooditude" series, which perfectly matches his creative focus of editi...

Improv actor Ted Tremper's improv show "Break-ups: The Series" was awarded best original series at the inaugural Vimeo Festival + Awards, held earlier this month in New York. ...

MARIO BUCCA is writer-producer-director of the romantic thriller "And They Call It Puppy Love," shooting in late November and December. "It's about "gays, guns and gangster...

Michigan Film Office director Carrie Jones, 34, hadn't previously worked in arts or entertainment, but when the film incentives were created, "I knew that it was something I wan...

GRAND RAPIDS. About 120 people gathered for a noontime rally in support of Michigan's film incentive, which pays up to 42 percent of a project's production costs. The rally ...

Three films produced by local filmmakers and one from a director with Chicago ties took the Audience Choice Awards at the just concluded 46th annual Chicago International Film F...

TWO TOP AWARD-WINNING CREATIVES, Ken Erke and Matt Marcus, joined the Chicago office of R/GA, called advertising's most creative interactive agency, as executive creative dire...

A TOTAL OF FIVE U.S.-made films won Chicago International Film Festival Gold and Silver Hugo awards. One of those five was a Best Actress Silver Hugo statuette to Liana Libe...

RAPPER-TURNED-ACTOR 50 CENT (Curtis Jackson) landed a whopping $200 million funding deal for a 10-picture deal for his Cheetah Vision company, the company Fiddy launched with ...

"Top Chef" contestant Valerie Bolon and Elysian Hotel's Jason McLeod will join other area chefs in creating favorite specialty childhood treats for "A Taste of Fooditude" party ...

For Mark Woods, this year -- "a record year, an insane year" for his nine year old Camera Crane Specialists ? isn't over yet, with the arrival Monday of Steven Soderbergh's big...

The International Latino Cultural Center, which produces the Chicago Latino Film Festival, has partnered with Comcast to launch the Chicago Latino Filmmaker Program. Last Fri...

Directors Joe Otting and Adam Sobocienski's Fiber Films may well represent the next business model of commercial production. "We're remote," Otting says, "and nimble. Ther...

Writer/director/producer Don Thacker left behind a career as a marketing executive to found the production company Imagos Films and shoot his debut feature, the macabre creature...

BMEDIA AND FALCON PICTURE GROUP have formed a marketing partnership for the Protestant audio bible "The Word of Promise." featuring Jim Caviezel at Jesus, with narrator Michael ...

At the Windy City West party hosted by Brenda Sexton earlier this month, some 400 strong Chicago natives -- those with area ties and some who flew out especially for the party...

DAVID SCHWIMMER AND ALAN CUMMING are the stars at CIFF's Red Carpet Monday night. The Festival welcomes openly gay actor Cumming, who receives the fest's Artistic Achievement...

After two years at ARU, audio engineer Cory Coken left to join another audio house ? NoiseFloor, the audio post house he founded with designer/mixer Jamie Vanadia in October, 2...

BOB HERCULES AND KEITH WALKER'S Media Process Group celebrate their 25th anniversary with a retrospective screening of excerpts from six of their documentaries starting with 198...