Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

R/GA   RAMPED UP its 4-year old Chicago digital agency with the appointment of MDavid Low  (not a typo, that’s his real name) as executive creative directo...

STORY’s LA-based director David Orr filmed a new campaign for VCF (Value City Furniture) for SBC Advertising of Columbus, Ohio, a follow-up to a previous campaign “that was ...

The Santa Monica branch of Flavor, Cutters’ creative design studio, spearheaded a massive live action and animation project for $21.4 billion global giant Arrow Electronics vi...

Now that the Patio theatre has reopened following the repair of its boiler, which broke down in freezing December, the nonprofit Northwest Chicago Film Society is back in busi...

Veteran music composer/producer John Ovnik of Deaf Dog Music has the distinction of being the only Chicagoan and the only advertising music producer who is now serving on the p...

Chicago’s very own success STORY will be honored with the 2014 Commitment to Excellence Award for Television Commercials by the 50th Chicago International Film Festival – ...

HAVAS WORLDWIDE CHICAGO not only hired veteran agency producer Matt Faris the first of the year for the newly-created position of broadcast and digital production – but 27 oth...

Grossman & Jack Talent’s on-camera roster will increase with the addition of new director of on-camera talent Robert Schroeder and agent Donna Simon Dunn, who join from Fo...

SPI-tv Media Group partners Rogelio Gazga and James Demas have put on their good guy hats with an offer to produce a pro bono public service announcement for a Chicago-area...

DIRECTOR JOHN McNAUGHTON is back in the horror film business with The Harvest, “the first horror script I’ve been interested in in 25 years,” he says, adding, “it�...

When a famous Hollywood movie star returns to his native Chicago in March, the local film industry will have its first  informal ambassador to Hollywood, to interest other ...

On Monday, just three weeks after agency production executive Tom Cronin stepped in as EVP/manager of Foundation Content, he and 15 others were given notice of the Chicago ...

Marty Rhomberg of Northern Lighting & Power emphasized that “I am not retiring or moving to the Bahamas,” with the sale of his equipment to Essanay Studio & Lighting...

Dictionary Films, Cutters’ production arm which went gangbusters in 2012, is headed for a bigger spot in the galaxy of production houses with the addition  of one of adve...

Given the awards and acclaim heaped on Steve James The Interrupters, Vagabond Audio’s Drew Weir didn’t find it too surprising when the documentary was nominated for a 2...

EFFECTS MAKEUP SPECIALIST, Westmont-based J. Anthony Kosar, 27-year old award-winning, artist, creature designer, sculptor, theatre, film and commercials special effects cr...

AFTER A SHORT STINT at McGarryBowen where he worked on the equally short-lived Bud Light account, executive creative director Mike Roe returned to Energy BBDO the start of the N...

Schafer Condon Carter’s president/managing partner David Selby said “something special is happening here,” as he announced the promotion of four creative members of t...

With “Chicago Fire’s” ratings red hot, the NBC Universal prime-time drama got the go-ahead for a full 22 episode series that will continue to shoot in Chicago through Marc...

Jared Yeater has visited and done business in Chicago “many, many times,” he says, and in mid-February he will take up permanent residency as the executive producer of The M...