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This year it was a tightrope, next year it's a satellite. Clayton Brown's "Galileo's Grave" follows Paula Froehle's "Up on the Rope" as the recipient of the annual IFP/Chic...

Broadcast and home video distributor Screen Media Pictures has signed to release two Chicago independent features, Bruce Terris' "Dirty Work" and Marisol Torres' "Chicago Boricu...

A TRIBUTE TO KARTEMQUIN FILMS on its 40th anniversary, "Truth in Motion: A Retrospective of Kartemquin Films," will be held Nov. 3 and Nov. 10-12 at the University of Chicago Fi...

The nine-part mini-series "The Pack II," sequel to the hit Polish TV mini-series, could be the first of several Polish TV dramas to shoot here in the coming year. "The Pack ...

David Scott Hay has just completed the eight-year journey from stage to screen for his debut feature "Hard Scrambled," an epic contest for control of a greasy spoon. Kurtwoo...

Steve Conrad, the local writer of "The Weather Man," signed with the Weinstein Company to direct his first feature here next spring, for an estimated $6 million budget. Sean ...

The first Steppenwolf film is in the can. Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Terry Kinney ("Oz") has wrapped on the short "Kubuku Rides," the very first production by Ste...

Northfield-based Media Recall, the people who made Ch. 11's archives available online, have signed another PBS station, KAET, Ch. 8 in Phoenix, to digitize much of archives for...

Bob Hudgins got the call Wednesday afternoon offering him the position of director of the Texas Film Commission?and could he start his new job on Dec. 1. Notwithstanding tw...

Former Illinois Film Office deputy director Bob Hudgins has left Chicago for Austin, Texas where he'll start his new job as director of the Texas Film Commission Dec. 1. He s...

Nikki Weiss, the hard-working rep for A-list production companies and directors, has become executive producer of a documentary that she's wanted to make for nine years. The ...

MEGAN VIDAS JOINS THE IFO in charge of the TV commercials sector in mid-November. Vidas, wife of uber-rep Rich Newman, is a former producer of political videos and commercials,...

The best tres leches cake I ever tasted was at a small Latin restaurant in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, tucked away in a tiny hideaway called El Cocotero. When the sultry...

One of the biggest grip/lighting equipment companies in the film industry has opened its first branch outside of Los Angeles and Las Vegas at Chicago Studio City. Cinelease ...

The One Show Traveling Exhibition of New York has come to Chicago for the first time in its 30 year history. Award-winning print ads, TV spots and design are on exhibition at P...

A TRIBUTE TO KARTEMQUIN FILMS on its 40th anniversary, "Truth in Motion: A Retrospective of Kartemquin Films," will be held Nov. 3 and Nov. 10-12 at the University of Chicago Fi...

DARREN MARTINEZ and DECLAN RYAN of the non-profit Start Thinking Corporation are in New Orleans shooting the documentary "Hellp" about the efforts of New Orleanians to recover f...

DDB/Chicago is the first agency in the country, to its knowledge, to recognize the growth of media beyond traditional advertising by designating a director of branded produc...

A lot of good friends have rallied together to help assure the future of two little girls whose mother, Gail Kennedy Benson, died Sept. 28 of pancreatic cancer. Mrs. Benson,...

In the new Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercial from Leo Burnett promoting posters with sports figures, Radar went on location to film kids trying harder to do their best at spor...