
CIFF starts Industry Days with Gigi Pritzker tribute
CIFF’S INDUSTRY DAYS kick off Oct.<!-- AddThis

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ARU’s new bilingual engineer/sound designer, Ana De Irisarri, was part of the team that handled sound on a
SPIKE LEE has no reason to apologize to Chicago politicians for titling his Chicago-set anti-violence feature “Chiraq” and he won’t
DDB’S KEITH REINHARD, the man who wrote “You deserve a break today” for McDonald’s and went on to help create
Since opening for business three months ago, Conspiracy, Chicago’s exclusive all-4K production-through-post facility, is in the throes of expansion, having

COMMERCIALS FILMING HERE are big, notes Chicago Film Office director Rich Moskal, pointing to Radiant Pictures of LA’s shoot for Toyota night over five nights last week in the financial

NEW NAME FOR LIMEGREEN, the cross-cultural marketing agency founded by Michon Ellis in 2004 in the West Loop is LimeGreen

CHICAGO’S COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION continues to hum along, either with a crush of work crammed into several weeks, or stretches of head-scratching

Cutters Studios’ editors and designers in four of its offices made a big splash as finalists for the 2015 AICE Awards, ranking

Veteran colorist Craig Leffel signed with Filmworkers for representation of color correction projects

LAPIZ’ NEW CREATIVE DIRECTOR is Brazilian Carlos Murad, moving to the Chicago headquarters of Leo Burnett’s Hispanic division, to

Craig Leffel’s inaugural project for his new company took off in a big way — a Delta Airlines’ online

WHITEHOUSE POST’S Kristin Branstetter has returned to Chicago as executive producer, as of Dec. 15, replacing Dan Bryant who left

Before Mayor Jane Byrne, there was no Chicago film industry. That was mainly because Mayor Richard J.

PARTICLE’S LA BRANCH has hired Eddie Alonso to head the post audio company’s West Coast expansion via

NEWLY INVIGORATED IFP/CHICAGO has announced its ever-popular and helpful two-day Filmmakers Conference, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, offering

Coveted gold Emmy statuettes will be presented to winners in some 65 categories of broadcast endeavor, from around 300 nominees,


Editor Craig Lewandowski last week joined Utopic creative editing and finishing as a partner, after 13 years at Optimus. He

Optimus assistant editor Aaron Porzel won the Grand Prize for Editing at the 4th annual 2014 AICE Camp Kuleshov Chicago trailer editing contest. The presentation last Wednesday at