Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Changes at Beast editorial, Company 3 and Method Studios: Producer Kendall Fash was given a major promotion to director of marketing for Beast’s seven editorial offices&n...

When STIR Post Audio was looking for a third audio mixer they wanted a professional who had worked in a different environment, as executive producer/partner Mindy Verson put it....

Ten new students started attending Tribeca Flashpoint College Sept. 2 — not at its downtown Chicago campus, but wherever it’s convenient for them — via a new online degree...

Since opening for business three months ago, Conspiracy, Chicago’s exclusive all-4K production-through-post facility, is in the throes of expansion, having doubled its West Lo...

Co-producers/directors Lynn Millspaugh and Derek Souders of Broad Street Films had no expectation of winning a prize in the 48 Hour Film Project contest, much less sweep the com...

“Seinfeld’s” Soup Nazi and “Parks and Recreation’s” Jerry Gergich will be among the cast at a reception during the Chicago Gala Screening of the romantic comedy feat...

When the Mayne Stage music/food venue general manager Joe Prino, former Metro co-owner and one the most names famous in Chicago’s rock world, proposed a program partnership wi...

The Chicago Advertising Federation announced the 2015 Advertising Woman of the Year is Trish Chuipek, president, Midwest Region of global media OMD, an Omnicom division, who wil...

The only five Midwest-made television pilots that will compete among 50 entries in the 11th New York Television Festival (NYTVF) will preview locally at the Midwest Indepen...

Spiderman, Marilyn Monroe, Holly Golightly and the Marlboro Man on the Central Illinois Film Commission float waved to delighted onlookers as they eased down the parade rou...

 KESLOW CAMERA doubled its Chicago staff to eight, with the recent hiring of Jim Summers as camera rentals marketing agent and three recent college grads as techs.He moved ...

Keeping a secret is difficult for most people, and especially for young boy and especially when the secret he is forbidden to reveal to anyone is mighty big, like being a star ...

Camp Kuleshov, the competition for assistants at AICE editorial houses, has gone national. The uber best entries from among all AICE chapters will receive the national priz...

DICTIONARY FILMS, Cutters’ production division, added a ninth director to its international roster of exclusive representation: tabletop director/DP Michael Ognisanti, wh...

Horror films come in many genres and some of the best of them will screen Aug. 20-23 at Bruce Campbell’s 2nd annual Horror Film Festival at the Muvico Rosemont 18 theatre, onl...

A documentary about the rich lore of Chicago agencies and the iconic admen who gave Michigan Avenue its special kind of cachet, in the works produced by A&C Film Distributio...