While the agreements with Chicago Local 476 were still in place, a nationwide walk-out was looming at 12:01 a.m. Monday, if the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Empl...
Chicago filmmakers release the Indie crime drama feature, The Cleaner. Distributed by 1091 Pictures, the story follows a middle-aged house cleaner who gets caught up in a viole...
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center announces the full festival schedule for its 27th Annual Black Harvest Film Festival, which will take pla...
Yolonda Ross, star of the ground-breaking Showtime series The Chi, announced with Rhonda Feinberg, a special donation of $100,000, funded by The Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foun...
The 57th Chicago International Film Festival announced the esteemed members of the juries for its competitions, featuring acclaimed filmmakers and industry luminaries from arou...
FACETS 38th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), one of only two Academy Award qualifying international children’s film festivals in the worl...
Kramer Morgenthau, ASC takes Panavision behind the scenes of the period features Respect and The Many Saints of Newark.
On the surface, a biopic about “Queen of Soulâ...
11 Dollar Bill ended things on a high note in providing editorial, graphics design and post services for a new social campaign for Cheeba Chews, a maker of bite-size cannabis e...
Optimus today announced that Zach Scheitlin has been promoted to Audio Engineer.
Scheitlin’s elevation bolsters an already formidable audio team under the leadership o...
Chicago’s greatest cultural export just might be improv theater, which was born at Jane Addams’ Hull House during the Great Depression and carried out into the world by the...
Chicago's disenchantment with filmmaking, and how Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, the largest film studio in the U.S. partners with their neighbors.
The film industry has st...
After spending the pandemic experimenting with new hobbies--bread-baking, zine-making, whittling, etc.--Chicago Film Society returns to "the only thing we ever knew how to do" ...
Full Spectrum Features (FSF) announces Unbound Sound, an expanded cinema event co-presented with Comfort Station Logan Square and in partnership with the Chicago Underground Fi...
Good times were had last evening at the Tunnel on Kinzie where AICP/Midwest held their Meet. Drink. Talk. Safely. social event, created exclusively for Midwest agency, commerci...
AbelsonTaylor has appointed Yolanda Macias, a specialist in workplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), to the newly created position of director of diversity and inclusio...
Longtime Director/Producer team Vance Malone and John Marx have made it official, partnering to launch their own boutique production company, Blue Label Productions.
M...
Creative agency Roger has signed with SG+Partners for Midwest commercial representation.
Roger joins a collective of premier production, post, and VFX talent represented...
One-stop cross-media production company Sarofsky is adding Tom Pastorelle to its full-time staff as Senior Editor. The news was announced by company Principal and Executive C...
At the September 30th Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting Retiring Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Mark Kelly said filmmaking is “significa...
