Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

As of today, Cutters’ Another Country has opened its fifth room, Sound 5, to accommodate the expertise of post audio veteran Peter Erazmus, who joined the audio comp...

Bitter Jester's doc brings distinguished actor Dennis Haysbert his first-ever Emmy Nomination Dennis Haysbert, a distinguished actor for 37 years, received his first-ever...

A series of documentaries by women directors is Chicago Filmmakers’ first event to help benefit the renovation of the historical landmark fire house it purchased to ...

Six indie filmmaking teams will make “The Pitch” Sunday, Oct. 25 in front of a live audience, as to why their project deserves the prize of more than $20,000 of in-kind serv...

Beast editor Dean Gonzalez, who in 2004 in Los Angeles spent a year shaping endless hours of footage about a famous band into a feature documentary that the band and director wa...

At its meeting Monday night, members of Local 476 Studio Mechanics nominated, without opposition, business manager Mark Hogan, to his fourth consecutive three-year term in the o...

Quriosity Productions is one of ten Chicago filmmakers whose 60-second films will lend reel local flavor to the 51st Chicago International Film Festival in introducing CIFF...

New to Stage 18 space, Angie Gaffney’s Media and Entertainment incubator located at Cinespace, is Justin Jackola’s JJack Productions and it’s knee deep in production ...

The first of Ari Golan’s legendary Halloween parties, in 1986, was actually a one-year anniversary party for his Golan Productions Inc. that he had started Nov. 19, 1985, in t...

Eight legendary “garage bands” that came out of Chicago in the ‘60s and ‘70s will reunite at WTTW for a once-in-a-lifetime public television special, “Cornerstones of ...

Mixer/sound designers Corey Coken and Jamie Vanadia’s NoiseFloor audio post company is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the addition of its first outside rep stretching o...

Fortunately, Cinespace is a monster-sized film studio so it can easily accommodate the hundreds of guests expected to attend GalaWeen, a bewitching costume party Halloween night...

If you have “slightly worn women’s clothes” hiding in the back of your closet, now is the time to swoop them up and donate them to the 5th annual Pink October Breast Cance...

Breast cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in women.  About one in eight women born today in the US will get breast cancer at some point.  The good news is...

Actors, writing partners and friends Bobby Richards and Avery Lee are finally calming down over the deliriously joyful shock of having won the NBC Playground’s digital comedy ...

In the relatively short three years since The Onion uprooted its New York offices and moved to Chicago, the media company started two new networks and Onion Productions to ...

The London-based 2015 Documentary Summit returns to Chicago for the first time since 2013 this weekend, Oct. 3-4, at Chicago Filmmakers, presenting some of Chicago’s most...