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Starting the New Year off right for much needed feature production will be a film from indie feature queen, producer Effie T. Brown. Come January she will be in Chicago to sho...

Six Columbia College alums will proudly walk the red carpet Saturday night when their ambitious first feature premieres at the Chicago International Film Festival. Their $...

ILLINOIS TOURISM COMMERCIALS are being produced by Story for agency for agency JWT by Story, for the third consecutive year. Director/DP Marcus Stevens shot beautiful location...

VARIETY NAMED CHICAGO the number four filming location on a list of "10 Greatest Locations in North America," in a special issue published next month. We rank behind Californ...

FOUNDATION'S BEN CHAPPELL AND AARON BROWN co-directed a music video for the band GIRLS -- actually the two-man band of Christopher Owens and R. J. White -- that preceded releas...

Hollywood's gold rush to Iowa blew up in the wake of a scandal late last week when Gov. Chet Culver fired Iowa Film Office director Tom Wheeler and suspended Iowa's incentives ...

SWEET HOME CHICAGO was a spectacular success Monday at the Le Grande Orange restaurant in Santa Monica, when 350 Chicagoans in the industry turned out for a night of meetups,...

Music producer Hank Neuberger shot the Warped Tour's 15th Anniversary Show in L.A. on Sept. 6, edited in Chicago, and delivered the master in "ten pressure packed and exhilarat...

A "mini Convergence" networking event, hosted by a trio of new media content providers, is a first effort "to build an active, flexible new media community where people can help...

"We are definitely still here," says Andrew Ryan, a Pixel Brothers partner, as he punctures the rumor balloons that have been floating around following company layoffs and swit...

Life-sized cardboard cutouts of actual children from the Off the Street Club will greet passersby at Michigan Ave. and Pioneer Court Sept. 25, in Euro RSCG's all-day fund-raisin...

Infused with a batch of proven new talent from Dallas, Vitamin, the digital media arm of Filmworkers Club, has been relaunched and revitalized with plans for expansion into bro...

Producer Linda Wolfe is becoming the Barbara Walters of Chicago with the launch of Views on Cue, her interviewing company that focuses exclusively on real people and their stori...

David O'Connor will invest approximately $2 million in the purchase, remodeling and equipping of a West Loop building he purchased that will triple the amount of space his O'Con...

Tod Lending is delighted to be selling his library of acclaimed documentaries on Fetcher Media, a new DVD-on-Demand service that mini-launched Wednesday in conjunction with the ...

THREE PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS went to Siskel/Jacobs Productions for its two-hour documentary, "102 Minutes that Changed America," that reconstructed, in real time, the events of 9...

HOLLYWOOD MAKEUP ARTIST MAURICE STEIN is helming a Local 476 makeup techniques seminar today through Monday at Essanay Studios, organized by member/makeup artist Helen Marchf...

Leo Burnett, the agency whose signature was big bowls of apples that greeted guests, has hired a Big Apple creative star and modern Peggy Olsen story as its chief creative offi...

The Cramer-Krasselt duo of copywriter Andrei Chahine and art director Ryan Stotts are the winners of Optimus' second annual "One Shot" contest. The script's subject, non-pr...

Roger Ebert will make a special guest appearance at the closing ceremonies of the Naperville Film Festival, one of ten film festivals being held in Chicago and Downstate this mo...