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Rich Moskal wants to blow up your film. The director of the Chicago Film Office is actively seeking local shorts for next year's Outdoor Film Festival, where selections will...

Devotees of Starbucks on Oak and Rush will have something interesting to watch while they sip their latte grandes: A permanent, multi-screen, HD video art gallery of the storie...

JACK WILSON, long-time active local NATAS member and motivational video producer, will be honored Dec. 3 as the 2005 recipient of NATAS Governors Awards at the 47th Annual Chica...

For the second time this year, Optimus displays its collective creative chops in 23 wildly imaginative 30-second "commercials" that will air throughout December on popular cable...

Three times a year, chef Macku Chen of Kaze Sushi, 2032 W. Roscoe, creates a seasonal menu that is utterly mind-blowing. Using seasonal produce and fish that's ripe and in ...

Global Video added high definition capability to its menu of video duplication services. They include monitoring and broadcast quality down-conversion from HD to any standard d...

Schaumburg-based Screen Time Images, an 8-year old company that restores classic movies and TV shows, added the U.S.' first and only HD or higher resolution telecine customized ...

DIRECTOR BOB EBEL created commercials with "the little people," as he calls them, for Build-A-Bear Workshop?an interactive make-your-own-stuffed animal retail-entertainment exp...

Floating down the Chicago River in a canoe with his roommate, Sundance veteran Masahiro Sugano was struck with what would become the catalyzing image of his debut feature "Secon...

Citing customer demand and a general upswing in production, Fletcher Chicago, a top five U.S. rental house, is opening its doors to film camera rentals for the first time in its...

Twenty nine Jeff Awards were spread among 20 productions and 13 theatres at the 37th annual awards ceremony held Nov. 7 at Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place. Congo Squar...

There's a whole new take on the four-day Chicago Motion Graphics Festival coming up in late January. Instead of one venue one night, GMGF will present 40 entries in four locati...

Major industry player and Second City alum Harold Ramis built a career as a leading writer, then writer-director of comedies like "Animal House," "Caddyshack," "Ghostbusters" an...

WINNERS OF MWFF'S at the 2005 Best of the Midwest Awards will be unveiled Dec. 6 at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema. Best director nominees are Aaron Himelstein for "Sugar...

After directing two pictures and writing several scripts for hire, Mark Harris has just seen his first sold script go into production. Co-writer Barry Bowles ("Nothin' 2 Los...

WBBM news radio host Felicia Middlebrooks premiered her debut documentary, "Somebody's Child: The Redemption of Rwanda," in the recent New York International Independent Film & ...

Ira Glass, creator and host of the ten-year-old nationally syndicated Chicago Public Radio hit "This American Life," is developing a string of film projects, mostly adapted from...

Technicolor Digital Cinema announcement of its long-awaited deployment plan for digital cinema will seismically altered the film distribution landscape. The venture intends ...

DP MARC MILLER IS IRAQ-BOUND for a month of filming Jake Rademacher's theatrical documentary, "Brothers at War." They received Army permission and clearance Dec. 1 after many ...

ETTA WORTHINGTON of Fernworks Productions teamed with director Carol Hutchins' Communications Solutions to produce a video now in production for the State Attorney's Office an...