The Asian American Film Showcase marks its 10th year with a 10-day festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning April 1, an expanded doc section and a three-month art exhib...
With third feature "Realization," Split Pillow continues the evolution of its collaborative film concept as a series of filmmakers build consecutively on each other's work to bu...
INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS men's fashion designer John Malkovich will be in Chicago to show his Uncle Kimono line of ready-to-wear creations. What? You thought Malkovich was an...
Former 37th Ward Ald. Percy Giles returns to the public eye after a prison stint with "Mel Bay," an independent feature on which he's executive producer with writer and former p...
AMY LIKUS, former Optimus editor joined Outsider editorial? SMS Productions moved to 1229 N. North Branch after a dozen years entrenched at 676 N. LaSalle. Phone, 312/440-8963,...
Saving $125,800 and firing two people is hardly the answer to Wisconsin's $1.6 billion state budget deficit. But killing off the 19-year-old Wisconsin film office to save money?...
Mark Wexler exposes his often-stormy relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, in "Tell Them Who You Are," the film that closes the Chicago Interna...
Music documentarian Lauri Feldman has seen her career take a substantial turn with "The Innocent," her feature doc about exonerated death row inmates that has its world premiere...
GAY IS THE GIVEN, not the punchline. They're funny. They're gay. And when I saw their runway summer hit "Weddings of Mass Destruction," my first thought was, "I can't believ...
While most corporate in-house studios have gone the way of the Kem and 2-inch tape, LaSalle Bank's Video Department has not only endured, but it will re-emerge as a new, updated...
Pie Town Productions are moving forward with plans to shoot Chicago versions of two successful Home and Garden Television series. The North Hollywood-based company is curren...
Towers Productions, the 16-year old producer of cable content, is Chicago's largest production company, with estimated billings of $10 million. ReelChicago's Catherine Rat...
After decades of film school/festival exile, the film short-as-product is back, feeding a huge and growing entertainment market in international television, web-based film and c...
Barely two months after he resigned as IFO deputy director, Bob Hudgins walked out of the office at 2 p.m. March 10 in what was a final end to his eight-year tenure at the...
Shockingly, venerable Swiderski Electronics has suddenly closed its doors. The Itasca-based provider of systems integration, engineering and equipment sales and rentals ended it...
Award-winning spot director and independent filmmaker Ron Lazzeretti joined FCB as SVP/creative development director, a position created exclusively for him. "How many agenc...
J. Walter Thompson, the world's largest ad agency, has reinvented itself as "JWT," calling the relaunch a "billion dollar startup," with a celebration held Feb. 28 at all JWT's ...
EURO MEANS BUSINESS. Just moved in are the Chicago brethren of Rubin Postaer Associates (RPA): GCDs Bill Mericle and Paul Janas, copywriter Derrick Halpern, print production dir...
Back in the day, the center of the known video universe was the Chicago Chapter of ITVA (International Teleproduction Association). With 500-plus members, it was the ITVA's big...
Dalia Tapia has just returned from Mexico with the last of the footage for her Super 16mm feature "Buscando a Leti/In Search of Leti," which has its world premiere this April at...
