It’s baaack! IFP’s Oct. 10-11 Filmmakers Conference
NEWLY INVIGORATED IFP/CHICAGO has announced its ever-popular and helpful two-day Filmmakers Conference, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, offering
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,
IFP/Chicago’s annual Filmmaker Conference will return to its longtime home at Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema on Oct. 10-11 after being dormant for several
PRODUCTION IS RAMPING UP as four TV shows get underway at Cinespace starting this Friday, when NBC Universal’s “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago PD”
DON’T EXPECT THE DGA to fill the executive director’s position in the Chicago office anytime soon – if at
ENERGY BBDO CREATIVE RICK HAMANN left the agency, where he’d been SVP/group CD since mid-2011, to join Onion Labs, as SVP and head of
BORIS WEXLER (Roundabout American) of Escape Films is developing the thriller feature Chat, about a severely light-averse father searching the world of online adult chat
THE UNITED FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box Theatre Sept. 22-27 with a program that includes some 19 narrative and documentary features and 21 shorts.
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NEW YORK’S 59E59 THEATERS continue to provide welcoming off-Broadway accommodations for shows that originated in Chicago. Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide, which had its world premiere in 2011
The life of Emmett McBain, co-founder of Burrell McBain Advertising in 1971, and a renowned water color artist, will be celebrated at a very upbeat memorial party Saturday, June 30,
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, a documentary by producer/director Kelly Luchtman and coproducer, DP and editor Thomas C. Gaunt, about the troubled history of the Acme Artists Community in Bucktown, screens
THE GUEST LIST for the 25th Windy West Party in L.A., bringing together Chicagoans in the Hollywood industry and Chicagoans flying in for the occasion, is growing longer as we
AN INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR is spicing up our ad scene with Energy BBDO’s addition of SVP/creative directors Giovanni Settesoldi and Luissandro Del Gobbo, art director and copywriter,
YEAR’S END always brings accolades in the form of always-welcome grants, and there are three to acknowledge, starting with the generosity of The Helen Coburn Meier and Tim
With 50 years of entertainment under his belt and no signs of stopping anytime soon, actor/comedian and Oak Park native Bob Newhart will be inducted into the Illinois
FILMMAKER JAMES VALLO’S COMEDY, Sister Mary, has its world premiere Saturday, July 16 at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., in St. Charles, followed by a party
MORE THAN 60 EXHIBITORS will display their latest and greatest at Roscor’s 3rd annual Communications Technology Expo May 19-20 in the big first floor stage at Resolution Digital Studios.
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FOX TV Monday night did what was not unexpected by canceling freshman entry, The Chicago Code, due to ratings that started out so-so and didn’t improve. While everyone involved with the
WINDY CITY WEST’S PARTY Monday night in L.A. was the smash hit everyone expected from Brenda Sexton, whose Chicago-L.A. Link brought together 400 folks with Chicago
KEVIN COOPER’S 3D dog comedy, “Shakey,” which starts shooting this month in the western suburbs, signed lead actors Steve Guttenberg (“Police Academy”), Beverly D’Angelo of the National Lampoon’s Vacation series)