Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Digital and collateral agency Factory Design Labs collaborated with director Paul Schneider of L.A-based Hello & Co. and design and graphics-focused Leviathan to produce a c...

After 24 years in the heart of Chicago production as co-founder/president of Luminair Film Productions, George Elder has resigned from the company to freelance as a producer/dir...

On the crest of Utopic’s second year anniversary in December, partners editors Jan Maitland and Tim Kloehn, and executive producer Michael Antonucci have succeeded in evolving...

Some good news for the 100 Roscor Corp. employees who lost their jobs Oct. 28 when the 35-year old Mt. Prospect company announced the closing of its rental department: A plan is...

Take advantage of the last of the big, important events in November, especially during the two weekends prior to Thanksgiving, including several film festivals, a tour of Cinesp...

To announce first-time in-flight WiFi connectivity on three airlines and selected flights on five others, Itasca-based GoGo Air, the world’s leader and only such provider, rol...

JOB OFFERS KEEP POURING IN for Roscor’s former skilled employees, 100 of whom were suddenly and sadly terminated from the 35-year old Mt. Prospect-based AV equipment company o...

In the wake of the news of Chicago-based Roscor equipment company’s mass layoffs comes the equally distressing news that 25 year old Grace & Wild production and post compa...

Approximately one hundred Roscor employees were reportedly terminated Friday, Oct. 28, as the Midwest’s largest reseller and rentals of production, broadcast and AV equipment ...

THE COMMERCIALS DAM has burst and this last quarter of 2011 should be busy and profitable for the commercial production/post scene. Directors’ reps are swamped fielding agency...

EVERYONE HERE who worked on the Chicago-set, Chicago-filmed “Boss” - all the unions, the Cinespace owners, all of us who believe in our industry and want to see it thri...

More than a decade ago, local theatre and dance teacher and arts writer Lucia Mauro became intrigued with an equestrian statue on the Janiculum Hill in Rome: A woman wielding a ...

MULTI AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR SCOTT SMITH won the Illinois Film Office’s 4th annual Shortcuts short film contest with his 12-minute short, “A Certain Breed,” an humorous im...