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Louisiana's legislature turbocharged film incentives this year by raising the tax credit to 30%, after it had been scheduled to drop from 25% to 15% by 2012 and killing its suns...

Nicholas J. Michalak's "P.I. Dangerous," which will start shooting in Chicago this month, is the third of a trio of dark, brooding crime films that he will complete this year. ...

FOR FAMOUS FOOTWEAR DIGITAL David Rosen directed two high energy short films modeled after a classic ice cream truck, with a "shoe man" donning a white uniform and a jingling be...

The lightning speed of postproduction by Chicago HD and a team of editors and audio mixers took Lollapalooza 2009 from Millennium Park to FUSE TV in four days after the last mus...

Director and futurist David Rosen returned from the recent L.A. Collision Conference with great excitement over the merging of still and motion HD technologies. He reports on ...

A year shy of Media Process Group's 25th anniversary, founder Bob Hercules credits his 1989 indie documentary "America's Classic Ballparks" with knocking the MPG success story ...

COMMERCIALS RULE this month, as a slew of bicoastal production companies are here or en route to shoot national spots on city streets with local crews and equipment. Th...

When the historic Portage Theater on the Northwest Side reopened in 2006, attracting independent filmmakers was an important goal of the revitalization, says Dennis Wolkowicz, m...

Don't laugh, but spot business may be as accurate an economic indicator as any on Wall Street, just maybe not as scientific. Consider: In recessionary times, corporations sh...

For the Chicago Creative Club Awards "No Show" Sept. 10, the awards committee wants everyone in the advertising/production business to be part of the "celebration of great Chic...

"September:The Chicago Convergence Month" offers the riches of many industr-related events to TCC's 2,600 members, as a scaled-down Summit originally planned for Sept. 21-23. ...

At the 2009 World Tour of New York Festivals Advertising Awards in Chicago last month, Leo Burnett won an impressive 10 World Medals at a gala presentation at the Cultural Cente...

The celebrity-studded Windy City West party -- a reunion for Chicagoans working in Hollywood -- returns after a four-year absence and Brenda Sexton is again helming the sold-out...

Cinematographer and Local 600 member, Lawrence Daufenbach, is possibly the youngest owner of an affordable camera rental company which has the hot Red camera as its main focus. ...

Fearful that legislators will cap or kill Michigan's 42% incentives, about 100 film industry workers rallied at the capitol in Lansing Aug. 18, petitioning legislators to keep t...

If you are spending all of your time, money and energy trying to support your old model, you are not investing proper resources into what form your future model might take. ...

ACTOR/PRODUCER TIRF ALEXIUS has expanded his four-year old Driven Entertainment by opening a 1,100-sq. ft. voiceover, music and ADR recording studio in Albany Park. The D...

"If you're only going to see one film this year, make it ?Bronx Paradise,' by Wayne Gurman," enthuses Geoff Harkness, of the first annual International Hip Hop Film Festival Sep...

Thanks to a local connection, director John Anderson spent a week in July shooting for Disney English in Shanghai, where the company established its first English-language instr...

DOCUMENTARIAN KEN BURNS comes to Chicago Sept. 16 to speak at a luncheon and presentation for his new book, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," at the Union League Club...