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VFX expert Blake Nickle Radar’s senior post producer

By Ruth L Ratny May 21, 2012

VFX EXPERT BLAKE NICKLE who worked for L.A.’s Rhythm & Hues doing CGI and visual effects for hit features, has joined Radar as senior post producer. Nickle returned ...

REEL Ruth talks at WIF meeting 5/22; other 5/22-23 events

By Ruth L Ratny May 20, 2012

WOMEN IN FILM has invited me to be their guest speaker Tuesday, May 22 at its Annual Membership Meeting when it convenes at the Rock Bottom Brewery (where for many years we held...

Veteran filmmaker’s doc honors vets on Memorial Day

By Ruth L Ratny May 18, 2012

About a year ago, Loyola film studies professor and Army veteran John C.P. Goheen embarked on a quest to honor military veterans by telling stories of war veterans filmed on the...

Maitland collecting oral history of film business

By Ruth L Ratny May 17, 2012

Utopic partner/editor Jan Maitland is embarking on an ambitious production of his own that will also be his legacy to future generations of Chicago filmmakers. He is colle...

Expansive new space, account, staff for HY Connect

By Ruth L Ratny May 17, 2012

One of the few independent agencies of substance, the autonomous Chicago office of HY Connect, has expanded its Michigan Avenue offices to accommodate larger staff and growth as...

Extras sought for weekend ‘Guys Book Club’ shoot

By Ruth L Ratny May 16, 2012

If you’re looking for some industry-related fun this weekend, bring your friends and sign up to be an extra to fill a church on Saturday and a bar on Sunday, for George Zwierz...

Three famous filmmakers here covering NATO protests

By Ruth L Ratny May 15, 2012

Three famous Chicago native filmmakers, who established their reputations during the shocking turbulence surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, are returning thi...

Cutters wins at AICE; Beast boosts Bradley

By Ruth L Ratny May 14, 2012

KUDOS TO CUTTERS for winning three top 2012 AICE awards at the ceremony held Thursday in Marina Del Ray Ritz Carlton. Editor Chris Hafner scored Best of Chicago and Best Automot...

Filmmakers aim to elevate city as 3D production hub

By Ruth L Ratny May 14, 2012

In the spirit of “make no little plans,” a trio of filmmakers aim to be the catalyst to position Chicago as a 3D production hub, now that faster, more efficient 3D productio...

Fox’s ‘Mob Doctor’ TV drama set to shoot here July 16

By Ruth L Ratny May 11, 2012

Fox’s “Mob Doctor” becomes the fourth television series to film in Chicago this year, with the announcement that the network has picked up the drama for a full 12-episode ...

NBC’s ‘Chicago Fire’ starts filming here in mid-July

By Ruth L Ratny May 9, 2012

Good news for Chicago entertainment production! NBC Universal not unexpectedly ordered a full season of Dick Wolf’s “Chicago Fire.” The series will start shooting in...

Odd Machine’s web videos capture new Fiat 500 action

By Ruth L Ratny May 9, 2012

Odd Machine’s L.A. office was in the driver’s seat for the production of a series of 12 commercial-length videos that captured the action of Fiat’s highly anticipated clas...

Carrie Holecek joins Red Car as managing director

By Ruth L Ratny May 7, 2012

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CARRIE HOLECEK left Bridges Media and crossed over to Larry Bridges’ Red Car post facility to become its newly appointed managing director. Red Car’s exec...

Pixar Animation masters teach here June 22-23

By Ruth L Ratny May 7, 2012

With all the buzz about new bi-coast visual effects companies opening here, alongside the city’s burgeoning community of top design/3D studios, how timely and coincidental tha...

Director Scott Smith joins Dictionary Films

By Ruth L Ratny May 3, 2012

AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR SCOTT SMITH, known for a steady output of short films, has joined the directors’ roster of Cutters’ production division Dictionary Films, alongside Bo...

Black Cat’s doc about a friend with a grim disease

By Ruth L Ratny May 2, 2012

A documentary that came from the heart and began five years ago about a courageous woman in the local film business, who lives with an incurable disease, will have its Chicago p...

Golan Studios hosts Green Screen seminar May 4-6

By Ruth L Ratny May 1, 2012

A few years ago, director/DP Ari Golan of Golan Studios/Atomic Imaging, in his continuing camera education efforts, came across Per Holmes’ Hollywood Camera Work’s “Master...

Chicago spot talent shows up on AICP Shortlist

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 28, 2012

Fourteen commercials produced by Chicago agencies and one production company are on the AICP Shortlist of 230 spots that are competing for a final slot on the prestigious annual...

Columbia College honors three notable Chicagoans

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 26, 2012

Columbia College will present honorary degrees to six prominent persons – three of them Chicagoans – in the entertainment, media and arts fields whose careers and legacies h...

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The Colonie edits cinema spot; more spot action

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 26, 2012

THE COLONIE’S partner/editor Bob Ackerman edited a Draftfcb/San Francisco Levi’s clever Dockers’ spot, “Phone Booth” for release in cinemas throughout Europe and direc...