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Producer Elise Jaffe will host a party Wednesday night with food by top local chefs who will have come up with an adult's approach to children's food favorites. The party...

The Midwest Independent Film Festival is in the midst of its first-ever donation drive. The drive has raised 25% of its $10,000 goal for the month of November, which would cov...

The creation of a three-person, $252,000 Cook County Film Commission looks dim, as several Cook County commissioners say now is not the time to be adding positions to an alread...

The bitterness Museum of Broadcast Communications president/CEOBruce Dumont felt over ex-governor Rod Blagojevich's broken promise to help fund a new home for the Museum of Bro...

You won't notice what is happening, because it's not discernible, yet this is the most exciting event since the Reel was founded in 2002. As you read this, our webmaster ...

The venue may have changed, but enthusiasm for what's called "the party of the year" -- the 18th annual AICP Midwest Show in Chicago -- is higher than ever. The 2009 AI...

Presenters Jon McNaughton and Steve Conrad and nominee Lori Petty are just a few of the high-powered guests expected at the Midwest Independent Film Festival's annual Best of th...

After spending a year running her own solo rep firm and realizing she missed the collaboration inherent in a creative company, Melissa Thornley happily returned to the postprodu...

Trailer and film-to-digital conversion company Filmack marks a milestone this year that few other local industry outfits can match: 90 years in business. That makes it "the...

The time has come for the annual "State of the Union" ball, a.k.a. the AICP show. Each year, we collectively take the temperature of the ad and production world at this ev...

WHO'S NEW: STORY has added director/cameraman Blair Hayes for exclusive spot representation. He was most recently was represented by L.A.-based Form where his credited incl...

ELAINE MADSEN, the Emmy-winning producer, writer, and longtime Chicagoan, appears at the Beverly Arts Center on Nov. 22 with a free screening of her documentary "I Know a Woma...

While it was believed the owner of three Toronto movie studios was also the owner of an $80 million movie studio for Chicago, it turns out that a local group of investors are th...

Over the 25 years Oprah has broadcast her daily talk show from Chicago, it was inevitable that one day she would move the show to Los Angeles. Apparently that day will arri...

THE DVD OF DAVIDSON COLE'S DOCUMENTARY "The 95th: The Iron Men of Metz," about General George Patton's World War II infantry division, in which Cole's grandfather Steve Finik ...

Hollywood actor Casey Siemaszko grew up deeply immersed in Chicago's Polish community, performing with his parents' Polish dance troupe. And Siemaszko's father Konstanty fough...

"All truth passes through three stages," Ky Dickens, a producer for commercial MK Films, says in her documentary "Fish Out of Water." "First it is ridiculed. Second, it is vi...

Construction is underway to convert a 330,000-sq. ft warehouse into the first of what could be seven to soundstages for Chicago Film Studios, on the 50 acre Ryerson Steel campu...

Chicago-based Glass City Productions is in the midst of filming its third feature, the drama "Separation Anxiety," at locations across northern Ohio, starting with a two-week sh...

More than 450 guests crowded Cutters downtown facilities for its first Halloween party, one that assuredly will become an annual event for hosts Cutters, Sol Design, Another Cou...