Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Award-winning composer/executive producer Greg Allan has a new vision of what today’s music business is light and it’s light years away from Spank! Music and Sound Designer,...

With the signing of director Michael LaBellarte for its new production division, Utopic now has everything it needs under one roof to affirm itself as a full-service hybrid medi...

Chicago actors are a loyal bunch.  When they heard of Act One Studios’ financial problems, their unhesitating generosity helped save the venerable acting school.  Fo...

A FIRST FOR THE REEL!  After years of managing the Reel solo, I am delighted that industry pro Nancy Reid has joined the Reel as VP/development.In that role, Nancy will spe...

The Midwest’s biggest single provider of production and satellite services is a new entity formed through a strategic partnership of RingSide Creative, Jeff Moon Production Se...

A secret angel picking up the cost of the event and donating his own funds for the $28,000 prize money, all for the good of the local arts community, makes the Aug. 12-15 wINDIE...

After 14-years in Los Angeles as an executive producer of commercials, Dan Bryant is thrilled to be working Chicago again, as the Whitehouse Chicago’s new executive producer.J...

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER sure got it wrong when it published its July 27 inaugural list of 25 top film schools in the world and egregiously omitting Columbia College –- one of t...

AS OF NOW, Michigan’s film incentives funding is close to being maxed out.  A comparatively meager $2.25 million remains out of the current $25 million film fund, and tha...

FILMING A TRIO OF COWBOYS as they traveled the exciting, high stakes rodeo circuit took documentarian H. D. Motyl and his crew through six western states, shooting steadily from...

 Already a part of the Detroit post scene with its partnership in RingSide Creative, newly established Cutters Detroit is creating its own identity in the Motor City’s mu...

Some 200 invited guests for Bridges Media 10th anniversary celebration Friday night will walk the red carpet to the River North studio that’s going to be decked out like a kli...

After Jim Olen shuttered Rhythm Café last October, after 14  years as a commercial music house, he became a consultant with post and production companies “who were looki...

Regardless of what you want to call it – a perfect storm, a surfeit of riches – the next few weeks will be the “crazy busiest,” as Local 476’s Mark Hogan puts it, but ...