Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

The five screenplays and stage play winners selected by IFP Chicago and Chicago Screenwriters Network for the Screenwriters Workshop, Thursday, Dec. 1, will have their scripts r...

A live demonstration of the world’s first H.265 hardware mobile encoder "Smart-Telecaster," the Soliton ZAO encoder system — a live broadcasting link that delivers...

The advertising community’s involvement in Off the Street Club dates back to 1902 when Frank Thomas, president of FCB’s predecessor agency Lord & Thomas, made the first ...

A 10th anniversary party for founder/CEO Dick Thomas’ Trisect was celebrated by the agency’s more than 100 staffers last Thursday at its West Loop offices, and the even...

Life has been moving at jet speed for Chicago actor Ty Olwin. He was signed in mid-October for a leading role in French director Olivier Assayas’ new international film a...

Valuable raffle and silent auction prizes of winter weekend getaways at top hotels and tickets to major sports events will be part of the festivities at the 7th annual CAFM...

Corks are popping at Cutters and toasts are being made in honor of assistant editor David Rubin and assistant audio mixer Mike Regan who won two out of the three Grand Prizes at...

HMS MEDIA’S LATEST PBS SPECIAL, "First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb," the award-winning Broadway legends whose work includes “Cabaret” “Chicago,”...

THE CHICAGO BULLS and American Express teamed up to produce the  “Home Court Advantage” series of video content that shares stories of Bulls players, fans and Chicago b...

San Francisco adman Bob Hoffman whose “The Ad Contrarian” blog was named by Business Insider as one of the world’s most influential marketing and advertising blogs, is spe...

Rise Interactive digital marketing agency was cited in two recent prestigious and enviable surveys as one of the best places to work — among all US ad agencies and in the...

On the eve of its 50th anniversary, Kartemquin Films is in the throes of many changes, one of the most significant being the appointment of Betsy Steinberg as its new execu...

One year before Spike Lee began filming his widely hyped “Chiraq” in Chicago, local filmmaker William D. Pierce already had produced the pilot for his "Chiraq" TV serie...

Linas Jodwalis’ new design-driven studio, Almost Gold, is striking gold with its collaboration with two well-established visual media experts, and will open its doors (literal...

THREE CHICAGO CAMERA PROS will be among the hundreds of distinguished media and entertainment notables throughout the world who will gather for the 27th annual Camerimage Film F...

After four months of concern over how future film business would be affected by the suspension of the Illinois Filmmakers Tax Credits -- a consequence of the state’s on-going ...

Calling all independent filmmakers!  Starting today, Nov. 10, you may apply online for shared work space in upcoming Stage 18 Chicago, the area’s first media and ent...