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After 43 years as Ogilvy & Mather/Chicago's anchor and biggest account, Hoffman Estates-based Sears cut the tie and gave its $640 million business to Young & Rubicam, effective ...

The strong local showing in this year's Black Harvest Film Festival points to the growth of African American independent film production in Chicago that fest programmer Barbara ...

The Museum of Broadcast Communications documentary that's in the works by Brian Boyer Productions will be used as educational kiosk in MBC's new building and for future on-air s...

Chip Eberhart is out to set the record straight about the music he helped create. Eberhart, who runs the post house High Level Video, was one of the pioneers of Chicago Hous...

THE FOUNDATION post house expanded this week by moving into a full, 6,000-sq. ft. floor with seven editing rooms at 200 E. Ohio, from 2,800-sq. ft. and four editing rooms in th...

EIGHTBALL FILMS' Caton Volk's music video with local electrorock band Assassins will start making the rounds of the prestigious Indie Music Festival in three Canadian cities, Se...

A heavy dose of hard-hitting politics joins the staples of transgressive and experimental cinema at the 12th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which runs Aug. 18-25 in i...

Deborah Stratman didn't speak the language or know anyone in the Western Chinese Taklamakan desert when she went there alone in 2001 to shoot her documentary "Kings of the Sky."...

SPLIT PILLOW and CHICAGO FILMMAKERS have joined forces to launch a quarterly screening series. Chicago Filmmakers will premiere Split Pillow films, beginning in October with the...

Rejection at every turn, finding and fighting with investors, and the determination to make "The Chumscrubber" despite all odds is what Arie Posin told filmmakers at Facets Mult...

Just in time for Sundance last January, Brian Jennings wrapped the sound design on "Hustle & Flow," went home to pack and drove east for Chicago. As Craig Brewer's hip-hop re...

LAUREN FISCHER is hitting her stride as a recognized screenwriter. On Aug. 31 her "Wish I Might"?winner of the 2005 IFP/Chicago-Chicago Scriptworks contest?will have a staged r...

Pie Town Productions of L.A. swings into production of two Chicago-set home HGTV makeover series in mid-August. Each 26-week series will tape three shows a month over the next 1...

Gus Van Sant's new film, "Last Days," is inspired by the events leading up to the 1994 suicide of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain and furthers the improvisational, elliptical, l...

CREATIVES AFTER 5. "Family Forensic" is a new A&E series created and produced by Glenn Marrichi, president/CEO of The Marketing Identity, an advertising strategic consulting ag...

Carpe Diem's Ken Flisak was at Cinegear trade show in L.A. when he got the call late Thursday night from DDB/Shanghai to produce a Gatorade spot to be shot six days later. T...

Six filmmakers will each contribute a short documentary about a different Chicago neighborhood to "Chicago360," production collective Split Pillow's first foray into non-fiction...

EIGHTBALL FILMS' Caton Volk's music video with local electrorock band Assassins will start making the rounds of the prestigious Indie Music Festival in three Canadian cities, Se...