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Region’s only gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 13, 2012

Since July, Midwest Camera Car has begun offering the region’s only locally-available gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm: a Russian Arm from Toronto-based Filmotechnic Canada....

Lewis Lazare

Positive Pompous Society feedback, but bashing, too

By Lewis Lazare Sep 13, 2012

What would any successful event be without a useful post-mortem? And that post-mortem is what the Pompous Society eagerly convened Tuesday night at the Farmhouse, a Midwes...

Optimus brings Oboza back home as its top colorist

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 12, 2012

For Oscar Oboza, being named Optimus’ senior colorist means more than having a new position. It’ll be a homecoming for the Chicago native who has spent the last 13 yea...

Paul rebuilding Energy BBDO with Mallers as new CFO

By Lewis Lazare Sep 11, 2012

One thing we can say with certainty about Energy BBDO/Chicago CEO Tonise Paul, she prefers to keep her agency’s internal business out of the public spotlight and aw...

Curtain Calls

Mike Nussbaum leads Seanachai’s fundraiser Sept. 11

By Kerry Reid Sep 10, 2012

THE FALL THEATER SEASON is in full swing, and with it comes an array of autumnal soirees. Tuesday, Sept. 11, Seanachai Theatre Company – the company steeped in Irish storytell...

WTTW joins cost saving, single master control venture

By Mike Morgan Sep 10, 2012

A $7 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will fund start-up costs for a single master control venture called the Digital Convergence Alliance (DCA), betwe...

In memoriam

Secret Frequency founder/sound designer Jeff Van Steen

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 10, 2012

Jeff Van Steen, founder/creative director of Secret Frequency, the respected pioneer of sound design, audio engineer and composer of commercial tracks, died Aug. 22 in his home ...

Andy Davis doc shown at CSN awards, Sept. 12

By Angelica Jade Bastién Sep 7, 2012

One Chicago writer, two from the suburbs and two from Midwestern cities are the finalists of the Chicago’s Screenwriters Network’s third annual Screenwriters Contest who wil...

McCann returns to Burnett as top recruiter

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 6, 2012

RENETTA McCANN has returned to Leo Burnett after a four year absence in the important position of US chief talent officer, overseeing all Burnett’s recruitment, training and t...

Roth-Galati ‘dream team’ are Company 3’s first hires

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 6, 2012

Colorist Tyler Roth and his assistant, Paul Galati, are the first hires of Company 3, the new Chicago branch of the international color and finishing specialists. Roth joined Co...

Digital Asset Management conference here Sept. 13

By Mike Morgan Sep 6, 2012

Sixteen highly regarded digital asset gurus will speak from a users POV at the Thursday, Sept. 13 all-day Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference covering trends, stra...

VFX Re:think teams with XL’s ‘band of magicians’

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 5, 2012

When Teri Rogers, CEO of Kansas City-based T2 Studios, felt it was time to expand her fast-growing experiential division XL, she went against the traditional wisdom of opening i...

Lewis Lazare

Goodby wows at Pompous Society’s great, first event

By Lewis Lazare Sep 4, 2012

It was a great party. Tasty passed hors d’oeuvres. Wine in genuine glass goblets. Fun speech. And a lively group of people. Indeed, the best we could h...

EP Middleton and CD Brunelle start Diplomacy Music

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 3, 2012

PAIR OF FORMER CRC STAFFERS have teamed up to form the new music company Diplomacy Music. They are Mike Middleton, a former CRC producer who produced for Frayne Lewis’ OneSun ...

STORY’S Ford spot shows city’s location versatility

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 3, 2012

While many unlikely cities throughout the world have been used as substitutes for Chicago locations for movies and commercials (and not always convincingly) STORY’S recent rev...

MBC to screen Media Burn’s rare Studs Terkel shows

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 3, 2012

Among the achievements of four-time Emmy winner, video activist and documentarian Tom Weinberg is his massive Media Burn Independent Video Archive, which boasts the largest coll...

CSN, WGN-TV beef up sports production into October

By George Castle Aug 30, 2012

The White Sox’s pair of local TV broadcast rights-holders are adding pre- and post-game programming, including long-form remotes from road cities, in the 2012 season’s final...

Indie Focus

Feature doc in progress about airline crash survivor

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 29, 2012

KY DICKENS is raising finishing funds for her second feature documentary Sole Survivor. The film follows George Lamson, the only person to live through the 1985 crash of Galaxy ...

Lewis Lazare

A ‘Monster’ of a new Bears campaign from Two by Four

By Lewis Lazare Aug 28, 2012

The Chicago Bears are back in business. And once again, the question no doubt uppermost in the minds of the team’s legions of fans is whether the Bears will make it to t...

Lewis Lazare

Jeff Goodby inaugurates the Pompous Society

By Lewis Lazare Aug 28, 2012

Finally. At last. What had seemed an interminable wait is over. The long talked about — but slow to materialize — speakers series promised by the Chic...