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It looked like tumbleweeds in the exhibit hall at last week's National Assn. of Television and Programming Executives (NATPE) held at Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas. Attendance h...

You win some, you lose some. Michigan knows, winning a new production company that plans to open a $20 million film studio in Clinton Township (90 minutes northeast of Detroit)...

HoneyTech's security training videos are eminently watchful, "mostly CGI with a high-tech feel-- think ?Tron' or ?The Matrix' -- because we wanted to change things," says compan...

Founder Shawn Campbell has been encouraged by the listener feedback she's gotten during the first week of nonprofit Chicago Independent Radio Project's (CHIRP) online station ...

"BLACK MAIL," the modern-day take on "Much Ado about Nothing" by Slamdance and Jeff-winning writer director Hurt McDermott, premieres in a three-night run starting Feb. 5 at the...

When two couples walked out of a screening at John Borowski's real life horror docu-drama, "Fish," at Horrorbles small theatre in Berwyn, the filmmaker felt compelled to talk to...

Producers Boris Wexler and Julian Grant of Escape Films have the distinction of being the first Chicago filmmakers to shoot a feature entirely with the Canon EOS 7D, one of the ...

The great DP Philip Bloom of London, considered the world's foremost Video DSLR shooter and evangelist of DSLR low-budget filmmaking, arrives in Chicago Sunday to participate in...

It goes without saying that Kartemquin docs always attract an enthusiastic audience, but it is a rarity when one of them sells out two weeks in advance of the screening date. ...

Matt Wechsler of Hourglass Films is the one-man crew for the restaurant and bar web series "Chicago Eats TV," which has gone weekly. "I'm a food lover myself and a Chicago...

CHICAGOANS AT SUNDANCE expected this weekend at Park City, Utah include Fox TV's Robin Robinson and Ch. 7's Sylvia Perez, providing TV coverage of the festivities; Julee W...

A quartet of happy campers returned from three days in L.A. talking to studio execs with big smiles on their faces and signed with collective relief, as it looks like Chicago's ...

Writer/director Jeremy Passmore, who wrote "Red Dawn" that recently wrapped in Detroit and is at work on John Carpenter's "The Prince," will be one of the industry insiders pres...

MICKEY ROONEY plays the patriarch of a cop family with two troubled police officer grandsons (Tony and John DeGuide) in Tony DeGuide's "The Voices from Beyond," now in productio...

Script contests are, of course, nothing and tend to be like any other shot at quick success: long. But filmmakers Scott Prestin and Craig Pietrowiak are trying to change the odd...

Several notable local industry people are collaborating with Vince Lawrence of Slang Musicgroup to help launch the career of new singer-songwriter Jana G. "We're all working...

The 30th DGA Best Commercial Director Awards for 2009 has named five internationally acclaimed directors -- with MJZ's earning its seventh multiple nominations in eight years. ...

Red Car staffers perfectly channeled the 1960's "Mad Men" era of advertising, even down to the lone woman secretary, in this photo taken at the editorial company's holiday party...

Inside a Glenview garage, three friends who admit they have no “real jobs,” just a passion for the internet, produce video internet shows on modern pop culture on a network ...

OSCAR-WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER Guillermo Navarro ("Pan's Labyrinth") shot the new integrated campaign Cramer-Krasselt created and launched new product zendough.com, from C-K cli...