Fourteen commercials produced by Chicago agencies and one production company are on the AICP Shortlist of 230 spots that are competing for a final slot on the prestigious annual...
Documentary films are where the action is these days. As features become chiefly high-concept driven comic book cartoons, the doc genre is where human stories can be told....
THEO UBIQUE CABARET THEATRE in Rogers Park leads the pack with 14 noms from the non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, announced this week. Eight nods were for their current produc...
Columbia College will present honorary degrees to six prominent persons – three of them Chicagoans – in the entertainment, media and arts fields whose careers and legacies h...
Like it or not, the Internet and its seemingly infinite possibilities for marketing products have been all the rage in the advertising world for years. So for we jaded types who...
One hundred to 200 guests who turn up at an industry event is standard, 300 is darn good – but the 650 people who work as crew members attending last Saturday’s MoFest7, org...
Tom Burrell, who co-founded founded Burrell Advertising in 1971 and developed “positive realism” as a way of depicting African Americans using consumer products in an authen...
The big red notebook was missing. That was the first thing we noticed — how could we not? — when Draft FCB/Chicago chief creative officer Todd Tilford barreled into th...
Leo Burnett is usually always the biggest winner of double digit awards for TV commercial excellence in the international competitions it enters throughout the year and the 48th...
Zacuto Camera Rentals’ Emmy winning web doc, “The Great Camera Shootout” is back with a revolutionary new twist. "The Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout 2012," copr...
So now — in advance of its debut later this month — we have the second TV commercial in what can only be described as a new era in Illinois Lottery marketing. That new era b...
Brian Bullock got a double charge out of a package of ESPN spots currently airing that his fairly new re:think studios helped create and produced. For one, the assignment ...
Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano’s video My Asian Americana was passed over for a slot in the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Champio...
“Chicagolicious,” a new Style Network docu-series being filmed here, hosted a launch event offering makeovers to anyone who got in line early enough. In the spirit of journa...
If that day ever arrives when the great god of advertising (wherever he or she may be) must chose the greatest ad campaigns there ever were, surely — if there is any crea...
Mo Wagdy likes to think of Mofest7, April 20-22, as “a film and arts festival wrapped into a wrap party, since it’s about the crew people you’ve worked with all year round...
The most unique value of the April 21-22 Chicago Documentary Summit “is bringing together a wide variety of experts to discuss a wide variety of topics relating to documentary...
Maria Finitzo makes films that wrestle with complex social issues, like Terra Incognita, about how stem cells are mapped, and In The Game, how Title IX rules affect women and sp...
FOUR STAFF MEMBERS who work with the city’s theater program, largely responsible for running the downtown Storefront Theater, will be out of work as of June 30. The terminatio...
So what becomes the world’s best tasting vodka? Well, nothing less than one of the slickest, most social media savvy sites now out there in the vast Internet world. ...