Mike Diedrich was videotaping outside a Cubs-Pirates game in 2004 when there were two home runs in the first inning. “There were four or five ballhawks out there,” Die...
Silk Road Theatre Project is rolling out a new series of short-form video plays designed to be accessible to mobile device and tablet users, shot cinematically, on theater sets,...
USAMA ALSHAIBI’S button-pushing feature “Profane,” starring Manal Kara, as a devout Muslim dominatrix, has its U.S. premiere March 26 and 29 at the Boston Underground...
Just in time for their 10th anniversary this August, full service video production company SolidLine Media is moving its office a half mile north to a Loop penthouse nearly twic...
WRITER/PRODUCER RON LAZZERETTI'S Something Better Somewhere Else is the opening feature of the lean, stripped down 8th annual Lake County Film Festival, March 17, and running th...
ONE AT OPTIMUS produced two pro bono spots for client The Martin Agency of Richmond, Va. to run on Project Yellow Light's website. The spots' purpose is to inspire teens t...
Positive experiences on The Chicago Code and Prison Break, the 30% Film Tax Credit, and the story’s Chicago setting clinched the Playboy series pilot for a shoot here, studio ...
A feature and a documentary about socialite Bertha Honoré and real estate developer Potter Palmer will be the first projects for River Forest husband-wife Eric Anderson and Ame...
JOE KEEFE of Long Tail Media Group is producing fridaynitebYtes, a streaming comedy sketch series targeted to tween-and-teen internet users. The members contribute their s...
A COMEDY WEB PORTAL called “Fooblik” is being built by Kamath “Kayenn” Nilesh of Argeli Vicar. The production team is producing the series “Fooblik News Network” and...
WME is packaging two of the several projects that local producer Darren Reagan is developing through his 11Eleven Entertainment.The agency is onboard for Reagan and “Dog Whisp...
STEVEN HILLER of Hesperus Films is shooting Rachel Cook’s Microlending Film: A Documentary About Enterprising Women in India and Bangladesh this month. They filmed in Pa...
The final episode of the massively multi-player online game (MMO) CrimeCraft: Bleedout, will be released March 5 by Vogster Entertainment. It’s the first MMO to offer ma...
Pasquale Iannino of Rockit Projects spent three weeks in October and November living aboard amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima and flying daily into the South American countries Gu...
Backyard Productions and Optimus are sharing their mighty resources in a newly formed “creative production home,” operating autonomously out of Backyard’s Venice, Californ...
Aerial photographers branching out from core business in real estateVisitors to the Willis Tower Skydeck are presented with the opportunity to experience their 1400’ elevation...
Twelve years after Jim Sikora shot his film adaptation of Adam Langer’s play “The Critics,” the caustic satire of theatre and the people who cover it finally sees the ligh...
STEPHEN CONE’S DRAMA, “In Memoriam” will compete with 65 films when it premieres at the 33rd Big Muddy Film Festival, Feb. 18-27 at SIU in Carbondale, one of the oldest fe...
Sons of evangelical missionaries in Indonesia and Latin America, respectively, Andrew Freer and Samuel Díaz-Littauer grew believing “homosexuality was one of the ‘really ba...
As Bitter Jester Creative celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Highland Park production company has rebounded from a tough year, with a major new client, a TV pilot in the can, ...
