An August 9 report from the Association of National Advertisers claims that agencies steer business away from vendors and into their own in-house production units through d...
When former Chicago Screenwriters Network member and filmmaker Erin R. Dooley decided to make a collaborative self-help film project while walking the The Wicklow Way, an 85-mil...
If you don’t have a thing for sushi, then this probably won’t appeal to you. But since I do in a BIG way, let’s talk about the awesome new installation New York-based Inte...
All the good ones
are there:
Elephant Man,
Agent Cooper,
The Log Lady,
Henry Spencer,
and more.
In director Sandro Miller’s 17-minute short, Psychogenic...
There are certain things you can be sure of when you’re attending an AICP event in LA.You will see the coolest glasses collection this side of a designer optometrist on Rodeo ...
Producer/director Kamelya Alexan combined epic visuals, chilling suspense and a revolutionary VFX method to take Before the Fall into a place where no short has ventured before....
AICE changed up the rules for this year’s Camp Kuleshov trailer competition, which is accepting submissions until September 5th.Since its founding in 2002, CK has invited assi...
Mixing humor into a commercial while staying on message is a tricky proposition, but doing it while reminding viewers about oral hygiene sounds dang near impossible.
With sma...
Seed Media Arts director Jason Lindsey recently shot a series of MillerCoors short films to celebrate people who know what honesty and hard work is all about.Created by Jacobson...
National entertainment law firm Leavens, Strand & Glover announced today that Jed Enlow, former lawyer for the Steve Harvey daytime television show, is now a partner in its ...
AICE and AMP’s PrePro Diversity Mentorship Program is expanding the career choices of Chicago students by helping them learn what it takes to work in companies that do post-pr...
Confirming a story that broke on Reel Chicago.com last month, The One Club for Creativity, producers of the prestigious One Show Awards, ADC Annual Awards and Creative Week...
Naperville-based Rhea + Kaiser has been keeping more than busy this summer. The full service marketing agency announced a pair of promotions and a pair of new hires in July.Jac...
On August 18, the Chicago Acting in Film Meetup will mark its 10th anniversary with a celebration and fundraiser in the restaurant and lounge connected to the historic Davis The...
John Cena is not a great actor. I can safely say that since, well, he is nowhere around and I’m in the confines of my apartment!
That said, the wrestler-turned-TV-star-turn...
Production and post house Optimus announced the promotions of Mark Butchko to Creative Director and Jim Moss to Effects Artist.In their new roles, Butchko will provide creative ...
Best-selling author Marcus Sakey compounded the challenge of going from book to film long before he agreed to adapt his latest novel, Afterlife, into a screenplay for Ron Howard...
Since I have been covering stories about Chicago ad agencies for Reel over the last year, and with an even more intense effort since Ruth’s passing, I am beginning to rediscov...
It’s not the worst of times, but the best of limes as Skittles has finally listened to pleas from customers over social media who begged for the return of the popular flavor a...
Minneapolis’ Sin City Escape and Chicago’s Speedfreak rocked hundreds of fans at Liftmaster’s Battle of the Garage Bands competition in Wicker Park’s 1st Ward on Sunday ...
