Columnist: Mike Morgan

Not as many non-broadcaster-produced shows received 2012 Midwest Chapter Emmy nominations this season as they had in past years.  Still, approximately 14 companies, especia...

The third feature-length project from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2DS Productions has wrapped two weeks of local filming and has begun postproduction at Filmworkers Club and it...

The proposed V-SPANN cable channel has edged forward in its goal towards becoming the state’s first TV channel dedicated to the needs and stories of military veterans, by sett...

The first two episodes of “Citizen Soldier,” a 12-part original panel discussion series on military topics, coproduced by internationally famous Pritzker Military Library, a...

Leave it to founder/artistic director Michael Kutza and the board and staff of the Chicago and the 48th International Film Festival to elevate the city’s culture level with th...

“Side by Side,” the doc that looks at digital technology’s effect on filmmaking screens Monday, Sept. 17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC).  With the inexorable r...

A $7 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will fund start-up costs for a single master control venture called the Digital Convergence Alliance (DCA), betwe...

Sixteen highly regarded digital asset gurus will speak from a users POV at the Thursday, Sept. 13 all-day Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference covering trends, stra...

The island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands wants to become a serious contender for feature film production and invited Nate Grant of Lake Shore Film & TV Production...

Actors will have a chance to learn how to sharpen their audition skills when veteran TV, film and stage actor Michael Kostroff (The Wire, king of Queens) teaches his popular “...

THREE OF CARLO TREVISO’S Veteran Pictures Studio’s shorts will screen at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), that will bring 5,000 attendees from...

The national University Film & Video Association conference being hosted at Columbia College this week, Aug. 6-11, has its advantages for the filmmaking community-at-large.&...

Eight shorts by area filmmakers will screen as the Made in Chicago program Aug. 4 and 9, during the Gene Siskel Film Center’s 18th annual Black Harvest Film Festival, Aug. 3-3...

The Community Film Workshop partnered with Facets Multi-Media to present ReelFilms@Harris Park – a first-time film festival of independent films highlighting Chicago's African...

Go to Team, a provider of high-end video crews and equipment video crews and equipment headquartered in Charleston, S.C., opens its first northern city branch in Chicago with th...

SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry agreed to postpone their previously-scheduled early negotiations of the union’s commercials contract, the union board announced Saturday...

Although once film-active Wisconsin lost its healthy film incentives a few years ago, “There’s still a good sized talent and theatre group between Milwaukee and Madison that...

Mayonnaise is much more than a flavor-enhancing bread spread when it’s Hellmann’s, as a chef demonstrates in three videos produced by integrated studio Utopic for Hellmann�...

Next September, The School of the Art Institute (SAIC) will be one of nine major institutions participating in the Sony Digital Media Academy (SDMA) that will give undergraduate...