Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Milwaukee-born, Chicago lawyer and advocate Newton Minow, the last remaining member of the Kennedy administration, is the subject of an hourlong tribute doc, “Newton Minow:...

There will be more than one doctor in the house when NBC’s “Chicago Med” series settles into Chicago this summer to film alongside two Dick Wolf’s two other Chicago-set...

With the acquisition earlier this month of veteran editor/director Kevin McGurn’s 200 Stories Tall post company, Clutch Motion Studios has been formed as a division of ph...

Cutters Studios’ editors and designers in four of its offices made a big splash as finalists for the 2015 AICE Awards, ranking second only to Rock Paper Scissors in the numb...

The Alaska-based co-producer of Keep Talking, one of four Kartemquin docs-in-progress, and an Alaskan tribal official will fly to Chicago to participate in Kartemquin’s 4th ...

Singer/songwriter Ashleigh Ashton, who at age 16 won the first F.A.M.E. talent competition in 2012, will perform at the 4th annual “An Evening of FAME” fundraising talent c...

For client EGO Power+ makers of cordless lawn care equipment, The Escape Pod launched a new integrated campaign to show the simplicity and convenience of cordless vs. environme...

LEO BURNETT trumped the Chicago International Film Festival TV awards by scoring 18 – or almost half -- of the 40 television commercial awards presented last Wednesday at a ...

Based on the success of DePaul’s Cinema School teaming up with Cinespace for on-site stage and classroom space, the studio is moving forward with plans to open the doors of ...

This year’s CIMMfest’s partnership with the city-sponsored Lake FX Summit + Expo, “turned out to be a really good experience,” says Dave Moore, executive director of t...

There’s no third season shooting in Chicago for USA Network’s quirky comedy half-hour “Sirens” series about a group of paramedics in Chicago. Low ratings did it in, des...

Roy Skillicorn, who built a big, Chicago-based bicoastal production company, has been hired by Digital Kitchen to launch and lead its new DK Studios, aimed at fulfilling the my...

BIG PARTY TONIGHT hosted by Corey Coken and Jamie Vanadia’s NoiseFloor to celebrate the opening night of the seventh consecutive year of CIMMfest, which, in association with...

The pilot for “The Blexicans,” a half-hour sitcom series being directed here by Bill Duke for Red Dove Media, gets underway April 27 for five days at Cinespace and in the ...

WTTW/11’s executive producer Ann Gleason and producer Dan Protess did the impossible when they selected 13 eclectic, interesting and diverse restaurants and bars out of 6,2...

Satirical, comedic "The Onion" and its commercial affiliate, “Onion Labs” will receive the first Commitment to Excellence in New Media Award from the Chicago International ...

This is it! Lake FX and CIMMfest’s schedule of 16 specially organized events exclusively pertaining to different aspects of film, presented by 72 of Chicago’s expert, ...