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Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

HistoryMakers’ Jarrett TV talk to air on national PBS
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HistoryMakers’ Jarrett TV talk to air on national PBS

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 18, 2016
“AN EVENING WITH VALERIE JARRETT,” a presentation of The HistoryMakers, the massive archive of interviews with notable African American leaders now part of the Library of Co...
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VFX artists Davis and Tiffany join Sarofsky’s staff
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VFX artists Davis and Tiffany join Sarofsky’s staff

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 16, 2016
TWO FREELANCE VFX DESIGNERS were hired by design-driven company Sarofsky: Visual effects and finishing artist Cory Davis and designer Dan Tiffany, Erin Sarofsky and EP Steven An...
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OTSC luncheon raffle ticket could win you 4 Cubs seats

OTSC luncheon raffle ticket could win you 4 Cubs seats

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 14, 2016
To help raise money for Off the Street Club at its Thursday, Dec. 1 annual Holiday Luncheon, one of the two big raffle prizes is Cubs tickets for four Wrigley Field dugout seats...
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Local agency tops Ad Age’s 50 Best Places to Work 2016
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Local agency tops Ad Age’s 50 Best Places to Work 2016

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 14, 2016
CHICAGO AGENCY BE FOUND ONLINE was ranked Number One in Advertising Age’s Best Places to Work 2016, topping a list of 50 ad agencies throughout the US, including 18 New Y...
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SAG-AFTRA’s renovated KMRC now ready for use

SAG-AFTRA’s renovated KMRC now ready for use

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 11, 2016
SAG-AFTRA members’ home-away-from-home, its place to work, record, rehearse, audition and connect — the 15-year old Kaufherr Members Resource Center (KMRC) — has reopened ...
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Jane Lynch to accept a Comedy Film Fest award
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Jane Lynch to accept a Comedy Film Fest award

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 9, 2016
A LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD will be presented to actress/comedian Jane Lynch, a Chicago area native, by the Chicago Comedy Film Festival (CCFF) and the Second City’s Harold R...
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BAM Studios expands to 5th ADR facility at Cinespace

BAM Studios expands to 5th ADR facility at Cinespace

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 9, 2016
Recording company BAM Studios, a major provider of ADR to many of the network TV series and Hollywood features filming here, has opened its fifth ADR studio at Cinespace, after ...
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A 5th Marvel-ous 3D title project from Sarofsky design

A 5th Marvel-ous 3D title project from Sarofsky design

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 7, 2016
Chicago-based Sarofsky created, designed and produced the opening title sequence for Marvel Studio’s latest hit movie, “Doctor Strange,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch in t...
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Chappell helms music video for Illinois’ Margo Price
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Chappell helms music video for Illinois’ Margo Price

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 7, 2016
A MUSIC VIDEO for Nashville country singer-songwriter Margo Price, “Hands of Time,” was directed by Ben Chappell of One at Optimus in LA and cut here by Optimus editor Mark ...
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Seminars with famous still shooters at Photo Forum

Seminars with famous still shooters at Photo Forum

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 30, 2016
A first for Chicago — the all-day Stand Out Photographic Forum Thursday, Nov. 3 — brings six notable commercial still photographers demonstrating their specialties in meanin...
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Sommer’s community budgeting doc to air Nov. 3
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Sommer’s community budgeting doc to air Nov. 3

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 30, 2016
INES SOMMER’S DOC “COUNT ME IN” about the innovative national movement of participatory budgeting (PB), that gives Chicagoans direct say over local public projects and mon...
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300 local teens worked on Fresh Films’ sci-fi feature

300 local teens worked on Fresh Films’ sci-fi feature

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 30, 2016
Fresh Films’ teen sci-fi adventure feature, “Traveling Without Moving” premieres Tuesday, Nov. 1 at a non-traditional venue: Von Steuben High School, where many of its stu...
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Memorial services held for 3 ad women killed in crash

Memorial services held for 3 ad women killed in crash

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 28, 2016
A memorial service has been held for one of the three advertising women who were tragically killed in an Oct. 23 automobile accident and two other services will be held Oct. 29 ...
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MIFF’s Nov. 15 Ad Shorts Night to premiere 12 films

MIFF’s Nov. 15 Ad Shorts Night to premiere 12 films

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 28, 2016
The 7th annual Ad Community Shorts Night at the Midwest Independent Film Festival will screen Tuesday, Nov. 15 instead of its regular First Tuesday Nov. 1 date, deemed as being ...
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Only two Illinois-made films in Route 66 Film Festival
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Only two Illinois-made films in Route 66 Film Festival

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 28, 2016
The only two Illinois-made films will be screening among the 34 selections of at the 15th annual Route 66 Film Festival, Nov. 4-5 at the Capital City Bar & Grill Theatre, in...
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Vince Vaughn finally sells his Mag Mile penthouse
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Vince Vaughn finally sells his Mag Mile penthouse

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 26, 2016
VINCE VAUGHN IS GONE from Chicago, that is, he finally sold the three-story penthouse atop the Palmolive Building at 919 N. Michigan for a total $12.1 million, a little more tha...
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17 Chicago AICE assistants win Camp Kulshov awards

17 Chicago AICE assistants win Camp Kulshov awards

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 26, 2016
A wide swatch of Chicago post house assistant editors, graphic designers and audio mixers – 17 in all — were winners in the annual AICE international Camp Kuleshov trailer C...
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Burnett winner of two AICP Next Awards, here Nov. 3

Burnett winner of two AICP Next Awards, here Nov. 3

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 26, 2016
The AICP Next Awards, an extension of the AICP Show that traditionally climaxes a year of special events in Chicago, screens Nov. 3 at the AMC 600 N. Michigan Ave. theatre.Optim...
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Daniel Nearing is CFO’s first Filmmaker-in-Residence

Daniel Nearing is CFO’s first Filmmaker-in-Residence

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 24, 2016
Chicago filmmaker Daniel Nearing of 9/23 Films, was named the first Filmmaker-in-Residence at the Chicago Film Office’s first-of-a-kind Independent Film Initiative (IFI).The i...
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Two important feature docs receive Emmy nominations
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Two important feature docs receive Emmy nominations

By Ruth L Ratny Oct 24, 2016
TWO MORE EMMY NOMINATIONS (apologetically overlooked in last week’s listing in ReelChicago). Feature-length doc “Chicago’s True Nature: The Forest Preserves of Cook Count...
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