RDS wins top award for Nearwest Side addition
Lee Facklis, CEO of Show Department, Inc., accepts 2005 ICNC Company of the Year Award for its “exceptional growth to the area and produced a positive impact on the Kinzie
Lee Facklis, CEO of Show Department, Inc., accepts 2005 ICNC Company of the Year Award for its “exceptional growth to the area and produced a positive impact on the Kinzie
Patrick Read Johnson’s teenage visits to the visual effects stages of “Stars Wars” and “Close Encounters” launched him on a 20-year career as Hollywood effects technician and studio writer/director.
CHICAGO FILMMAKERS’ Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival June 16-18 opens with a program featuring a who’s who of avant-garde heavyweights:
Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Michelangelo Eye
HURT McDERMOTT’S 2004 Slamdance best screenplay winner, “Nightingale in a Music Box,” has its New York premiere Tuesday, June 7 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.
It’s been a year since freelance editors Mindy Hilt and Karla Svatos opened post house Edit Diva, and while business has ebbed and flowed, they’ve grown enough to start expanding
Mark Wexler exposes his often-stormy relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, in “Tell Them Who You Are,” the film that closes the Chicago International Documentary Festival April 10.
Towers Productions, the 16-year old producer of cable content, is Chicago’s largest production company, with estimated billings of $10 million.
ReelChicago’s Catherine Rategan talked
Composer Paul Libman, a multiple award-winner for his thousands of commercial jingles and industrial film scores, has found glory in another arena.
The 35-year veteran of
It was a dark and stormy night, metaphorically speaking. Six of us, all aspiring screenwriters, were gathered at the Perfect Cup, a cozy neighborhood cafe on Chicago’s North Side.
It’s d?j? vu all over again.
In January 1979 I was living and working out of a cozy apartment at 900 N. Michigan
Recognizing the increasing imperative of “change now or die,” Cinematographers Local 600 last month took a bold giant step towards changing the face and future of Chicago film unions.
Figures released last month by Actors Equity Association (Equity) confirm that Chicago once again fueled Equity’s 13-state Central Region to a record-setting year, as measured by total work weeks booked
Let’s take a step back in time in order to bring perspective to Catherine Rategan’s interview with Tony Lorenz, founder/president of 12-year old ProActive, Inc., a business communications company with
FAVORITE SON Steve Poster did double duty when he was in town last week. The American Society of Cinematographers president received the Professional Achievement Award from IIT/Institute of Design, and
Record label Sonic Wave International cements its expansion into visual media with the completion of its first documentary, “Ancient India Today,” being shopped to
When the Trio cable network rolled out its first original comedy series “Pilot Season” on Labor Day, it was local DP T.W. Li behind the verit?-style
WHEW, OPRAH STAYS PUT. The tension’s over as to whether she would or wouldn’t opt out of TV and Chicago at the end of her current contract. But we
Hollywood reached out to West Chicago-based Syntax Media to edit a feature called “Working Title,” written and directed by Robert Foreman and John Norton of
Jon Ross has the church to thank for the chance to produce and star in a 35mm feature film from his own script, “Love’s Curves.”
Since January,
From the success of his recent Bailiwick Arts Center production “R3,” Mark Vadik has seen no less than three major opportunities to move from theater into