Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Five Zacuto employees got together a year ago to produce the first episode of a sci-fi/adventure/comedy web series.  Now the third episode of their “Hank Frisco: Galaxy D...

Eight accomplished local artists and photographers exhibit their widely varied and eclectic images on the walls throughout Utopic’s 9,000-sq. ft. space at the integrated studi...

Among the artists like Paul McCartney, Adele, Cold Play, Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen who will appear at music’s biggest night next Saturday, Feb. 12 is a Chicago celebrity.&...

Andrew Cook, Chicago’s only non-union gaffer who comes equipped with his own trucks and gear, is celebrating his 25th business anniversary. To help mark the occasion, The Reel...

Cutters Detroit and sister company Moonlink are sharing the unique dual skills of new arrival Jim Talbot, possibly the only combination editor/DP among Detroit production/post c...

When post producer Lauren Shawe returned to Chicago after seven years in New York, Leviathan’s Chad Hutson, recognizing how the quality of her internet, visual effects and pos...

The Chicago Screenwriters Networks’ screenwriting contest is officially underway for the fourth consecutive year and the enthusiastic new CSN board is determined to make this ...

FOUNDATION has rounded out its editorial staff with the Jan. 16 arrival of director/editor Robert Stockwell, who joined after four years at Draftfcb, where he had been an active...

Cutters’ current expansion knows no bounds.  Chicago’s biggest post company has just implemented its L.A. operation with two high-profile editors and a Chicago-transfer...

After six weeks of top-to-bottom renovation, Product Productions’ new full-service Space Stage Studios is up and running in what had been Steve Broderick’s old West Grand St...

When Nathan Brown was in college in St. Louis, he was told that if he wanted to get into advertising he should drive up to Chicago, pick a company that sounded interesting and j...

A BIG WEEK OF EVENTS kicks off Wednesday, Jan. 11 with a New Media Program featuring L.A.-based casting director and pioneering new media producer Susan Johnston, and covering m...

The New Year starts on a positive note for brothers Jeff and Lee Faclis as their Resolution Digital Studios and Show Department companies emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy f...