Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

TV veteran Tom Verica turns his considerable talent from hit network television series to features, when he makes his feature directorial debut with indie “Building Bridges...

Before Mayor Jane Byrne, there was no Chicago film industry. That was mainly because Mayor Richard J. Daley notoriously hated movies.  Didn’t want them messing up t...

With meeting mortgage payments a struggle for many Americans, the Making Home Affordable ad campaign encourages homeowners not to give up hope because free resources are out t...

Six Chicago documentarians have been selected out of more than 100 international submissions for a place in the next round of Good Pitch Chicago, on May 5, 2015. Good Pitch Ch...

Over the next two-three weeks, Seth Henrickson and Chris Shegich’s Odd Machine will be transitioning its post operation into a new, separate post facility in River Nort...

Julieanna Richardson, founder/executive director of TheHistoryMakers, the largest national archives of African American oral history, will be feted at a sell-out 500 guest din...

PARTICLE’S LA BRANCH has hired Eddie Alonso to head the post audio company’s West Coast expansion via a new position that encompasses engineering, mixing, sound design and...

Chicago Film Archives has come up with a new way of presenting programs.  It asks locals with unique businesses or talents to curate an hourlong program selected fr...

Financing problems have shut down “Idol’s Eye,” the Robert DeNiro - Robert Pattinson “sophisticated heist/thriller" that was set to start filming in Toronto, instead o...

Frequent theatre collaborators director Erica Weiss and writer Caitlin Parrish are heading an independent feature being produced by an all Chicago cast and a crew primarily st...

Indie Incubator Film Fest is calling for entertaining short film entries for its penultimate Nov. 18 fest, since the 10-year old Incubator, Chicago’s only bi-annual festival...

The annual AICP Show, the industry’s giant grand finale party, expects 1,200-1,500 guests when it arrives Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Chicago Cultural Center, the third city o...

Saturday’s sold out 56th annual Chicago/Midwest Emmy celebration at the Radisson Blu Aqua will be the biggest and best awards ceremony yet. A record 700 guests will at...

Two of the four coveted Audience Choice Awards of the 50th Chicago Film Festival went to Chicago filmmakers now living on the West Coast. Kartemquin director Joanna Rudnick’...

“CHICAGO’S COOLEST OFFICES” is Crain’s Chicago Business’ annual effort to bring forth the best places to work, among the workplaces nominated by hundreds of enthusi...

In a well couched but nonetheless blistering policy statement, the AICE claims that agencies steering post work to their own in-house facilities and other subterfuge is an �...

For the first time, STORY production/post will have an in-house sales director, working in its new offices when commercial pro, Melissa Thornley, starts Nov. 1 as Midwest head...