Columnist: Mike Morgan

Local filmmaker Eugene Sun Park was one of 20 recipients to receive a grant from the National Park Services’ Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, which support...

For Cramer-Krasselt client, Porsche Cars of North America, former Chicago agency producer/director Sam Ciaramitaro directed what turned out to be 22 hours of footage about a cl...

Back in July, 1996, Optimus, then a post house of 30 years, was purchased by a partnership of employees from Anheuser-Busch, its unlikely owner for the previous decade.  ...

For the third consecutive year, The Hollywood Reporter’s ranked Lakeview-based DePaul theatre school number 18 out of the top 25 drama schools that are the best places to ear...

One-stop, full-service agency, Idea Kitchen, has been launched to work exclusively with restaurants and food service companies.  And with Chicago boasting 6,200 full-serv...

Bigger things are ahead for Lee Newman, president at Ogilvy's Chicago office, who was named the U.S. CEO for newly formed Mullen Lowe Group, the merger of Interpublic’s Mullen...

Cutters’ Another Country sound design studio added audio mixed/engineer Peter Erazmus, who becomes the sound company’s fifth engineer as part of its expansion. He joins th...

Two baseball action spots, with real baseball players for Chevy, the official truck of Major League Baseball, were produced by One at Optimus for Leo Burnett Detroit and are ai...

Editor Gail Gilbert’s  “Democracy” short action film that she wrote and directed will screen for members of the cast, crew and supporters Monday, May 4 at the Allia...

STIR Post Audio has promoted Matt Holmes to sound designer/mixer from associate engineer, taking his place beside mixer Amber Tisue. “Our clients’ response to Matt’...

Aspiring writers will be flying in from all over the country Saturday, May 2, to attend the only free and public screenwriting conference in the country: DePaul’s School of...

The fanciful Underground Prop Art Show of costumes, props at the I Am Logan Square Gallery, will run in conjunction with the 22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival, May 13-17, ...

With the CPS making daily headlines, “The School Project” doc series couldn’t be more timely.  Now the fifth episode, produced by Media Process Group, on Chicago publ...

Chicago–based artist, designer, photographer and NoPattern Studio founder Chuck Anderson has joined Havas Worldwide in the new position of creative director of design. He wi...

Veteran colorist Craig Leffel signed with Filmworkers for representation of color correction projects in the Midwest, in addition to heading Big Spoon Industries, which he for...

“Chicagoland Shorts” is a series of the best non-mainstream shorts culled from local film festivals, micro- and niche-cinema and film schools premiering at Facets Cinemath...

A Guggenheim Fellowship, perhaps the most prestigious award in the world for creative endeavor, was officially awarded Wednesday to filmmaker Daniel Nearing of 9.23 Films....

Whitehouse Post on April 22 will receive the prestigious  Commitment to Excellence Award for Television Commercials from the 5lst Chicago International Film Festival Tele...