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Chicago spot talent shows up on AICP Shortlist

Chicago spot talent shows up on AICP Shortlist

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 28, 2012
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...
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Secrets behind success docs revealed at Doc Summit

Secrets behind success docs revealed at Doc Summit

By Carey Lundin Apr 27, 2012
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....
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Theo Ubique Theatre tops Jeff nominations with 14
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Theo Ubique Theatre tops Jeff nominations with 14

By Kerry Reid Apr 27, 2012
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...
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Columbia College honors three notable Chicagoans

Columbia College honors three notable Chicagoans

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 26, 2012
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...
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Euro’s Sauza Blue ‘Fireman’ web video is smokin’ hot
  • Lewis Lazare

Euro’s Sauza Blue ‘Fireman’ web video is smokin’ hot

By Lewis Lazare Apr 26, 2012
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...
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MoFest7 a mo’strous hit with 900 guests

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 24, 2012
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...
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Tom Burrell honored with NYF Hall of Fame award

Tom Burrell honored with NYF Hall of Fame award

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 24, 2012
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...
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New Draftfcb clients making up S.C. Johnson loss

New Draftfcb clients making up S.C. Johnson loss

By Lewis Lazare Apr 24, 2012
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...
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No surprise here: Burnett top Hugo Awards TV winner

No surprise here: Burnett top Hugo Awards TV winner

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 23, 2012
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...
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DPs’ camera mastery proven in Zacuto’s 2012 shootout

DPs’ camera mastery proven in Zacuto’s 2012 shootout

By Mike Morgan Apr 19, 2012
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...
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New DPC’s April 30 spot intros “Lucky Day Lotto”
  • Lewis Lazare

New DPC’s April 30 spot intros “Lucky Day Lotto”

By Lewis Lazare Apr 19, 2012
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...
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re:think studios’ dazzling 2012 NFL Draft spot airing

re:think studios’ dazzling 2012 NFL Draft spot airing

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 19, 2012
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 ...
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White House snubbed online winning docmakers
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White House snubbed online winning docmakers

by Ed M. Koziarski Apr 18, 2012
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...
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Characters abound on “Chicagolicious” docu-series

Characters abound on “Chicagolicious” docu-series

By Carey Lundin Apr 17, 2012
“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...
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“Pure Michigan” spot campaign is pure perfection
  • Lewis Lazare

“Pure Michigan” spot campaign is pure perfection

By Lewis Lazare Apr 17, 2012
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...
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Emerging crew talent debuts at Mofest7 April 20-22

Emerging crew talent debuts at Mofest7 April 20-22

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 15, 2012
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...
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Experts tell the latest at Doc Summit, April 21-22

Experts tell the latest at Doc Summit, April 21-22

by Ed M. Koziarkski Apr 13, 2012
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...
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Finitzo’s big challenge: The meaning of civilization

Finitzo’s big challenge: The meaning of civilization

By Carey Lundin Apr 13, 2012
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...
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Cultural Affairs reclaiming Storefront operations
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Cultural Affairs reclaiming Storefront operations

By Kerry Reid Apr 13, 2012
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...
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R/GA’s Grey Goose savvy website in excellent taste
  • Lewis Lazare

R/GA’s Grey Goose savvy website in excellent taste

By Lewis Lazare Apr 12, 2012
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. ...
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