Daniel Patton Archives · Page 22 of 26

New report alleges unfair bidding practices in ad biz

By Daniel Patton Aug 9, 2017

An August 9 report from the Association of National Advertisers claims that agencies steer business away from vendors and into their own in-house production units through d...

Reel Indie

Sandro Miller channels David Lynch with John Malkovich

By Daniel Patton Aug 8, 2017

All the good ones are there: Elephant Man, Agent Cooper, The Log Lady, Henry Spencer, and more. In director Sandro Miller’s 17-minute short, Psychogenic...

Reel Indie

“Before the Fall” makes fantastic film history

By Daniel Patton Aug 7, 2017

Producer/director Kamelya Alexan combined epic visuals, chilling suspense and a revolutionary VFX method to take Before the Fall into a place where no short has ventured before....

Camp Kuleshov changes up the rules for 2017

By Daniel Patton Aug 4, 2017

AICE changed up the rules for this year’s Camp Kuleshov trailer competition, which is accepting submissions until September 5th.Since its founding in 2002, CK has invited assi...

Reel Ad of the Week

Tandem turns oral hygiene into a laughing matter

By Daniel Patton Aug 4, 2017

Mixing humor into a commercial while staying on message is a tricky proposition, but doing it while reminding viewers about oral hygiene sounds dang near impossible. With sma...

Lindsey directs series of short films for MillerCoors

By Daniel Patton Aug 3, 2017

Seed Media Arts director Jason Lindsey recently shot a series of MillerCoors short films to celebrate people who know what honesty and hard work is all about.Created by Jacobson...

Former Steve Harvey lawyer joins Leavens, Strand & Glover

By Daniel Patton Aug 3, 2017

National entertainment law firm Leavens, Strand & Glover announced today that Jed Enlow, former lawyer for the Steve Harvey daytime television show, is now a partner in its ...

Optimus’ Desir helps build AICE/AMP mentorship program

By Daniel Patton Aug 3, 2017

AICE and AMP’s PrePro Diversity Mentorship Program is expanding the career choices of Chicago students by helping them learn what it takes to work in companies that do post-pr...

REEL MOVES

VP/CD Vos among recent hires and promotions at R+K

By Daniel Patton Aug 1, 2017

Naperville-based Rhea + Kaiser has been keeping more than busy this summer. The full service marketing agency announced a pair of promotions and a pair of new hires in July.Jac...

Chicago Actors Meetup celebrates 10th anniversary

By Daniel Patton Aug 1, 2017

On August 18, the Chicago Acting in Film Meetup will mark its 10th anniversary with a celebration and fundraiser in the restaurant and lounge connected to the historic Davis The...

Chicago novelist Sakey turns his best-seller into a script

By Daniel Patton Jul 28, 2017

Best-selling author Marcus Sakey compounded the challenge of going from book to film long before he agreed to adapt his latest novel, Afterlife, into a screenplay for Ron Howard...

LiftMaster’s Battle of the Garage Bands

By Daniel Patton Jul 26, 2017

Minneapolis’ Sin City Escape and Chicago’s Speedfreak rocked hundreds of fans at Liftmaster’s Battle of the Garage Bands competition in Wicker Park’s 1st Ward on Sunday ...

CRC’s Bill Fisher dives under the sea for Shark Week

By Daniel Patton Jul 24, 2017

Bill Fisher met his first shark on a Grand Cayman snorkeling excursion almost twenty years ago. Ever since that encounter, the Chicago Recording Company audio engineer has made ...

The art that complements the Pitchfork Music Festival

By Daniel Patton Jul 20, 2017

Artist Jason Wyatt Frederick created a visual symphony for the cover of the Chicago Reader’s annual Pitchfork preview issue last week.Using a lineup supplied by the publicatio...

It’s happy hour in Chicago as beer returns to DDB

By Daniel Patton Jul 17, 2017

DDB Chicago, which has a storied history of creating award-winning work for beer brands — Anheuser-Busch to be specific — is ready to break out the beer steins again as Mill...

Ad and film pros capture the poetry of Cook County Jail

By Daniel Patton Jul 14, 2017

This is the final installment of a three-part series. To view part one, click here. For part two, here.Leo Burnett executive producer Ron Nelken transformed advertsing concepts ...

Chicago Teamster official charged with extortion

By Daniel Patton Jul 14, 2017

In an 11-page indictment returned Wednesday, the US District Court of Illinois charged high-ranking Teamster official John T. Coli Sr. with extorting “quarterly cash payments�...

NY-based director Wilhelm Scholz signs with Quriosity

By Daniel Patton Jul 12, 2017

Over the course of his career, director / photographer Wilhelm Scholz has mastered the art of creating the right place at the right time. From Alaska to Hong Kong, from Libya to...

Teaching advertising class in Cook County Jail — part 2

By Daniel Patton Jul 12, 2017

This is the second installment of a three-part series. To view part one, click here.Although “many moons” had passed since Leo Burnett executive producer Ron Nelken taught c...

REEL THINGS

Ad pros help Cook County Jail detainees get creative

By Daniel Patton Jul 10, 2017

“At the end of the day, if we didn’t accomplish anything else, we accomplished some smiles. That is medicine.” Chris Jacobs First of a three-part se...