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Particle’s Stalling wins an AICE contest Grand Prize

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 28, 2016

Assistant engineer Jordan Stalling told his colleagues at Particle Audio that he wasn’t going to enter the 2016 International Camp Kuleshov trailer contest this year because h...

How Flow Motion Media achieves music video success

By Marita Gomez Nov 28, 2016

The production crew for Flow Motion Media worked for days setting the stage for “Space Hustler,” their latest music video, building a spaceship complete with a cockpit and c...

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WWII women pilots to take off again in Orlandino film

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 28, 2016

THE FEATURE “SOARING” is the latest project of producer Joe Orlandino of Atlas Media Group, working with writer Amy Danford-Klein, a former corporate pilot wh...

BrandSpins acquires assets of bankrupt Music Dealers

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 28, 2016

The assets of Chicago-headquartered sync music licensing company Music Dealers, which suddenly went out of business last July owing countless global artists on its roster, have ...

Look who was among the 1,200 at the AICP Show

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 21, 2016

ReelChicago took photos galore of the stellar turn-out of the 1,200-plus guests from advertising and production who attended Chicago’s 25th annual AICP Show Thursday night tha...

AICP, DGA’s diversity program for spot directors

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 18, 2016

Having recognized the scarcity of minorities and women in the commercial industry the national AICP and DGA united to launch the Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP) to...

“Exonerated” wins top prize in MIFF’s Shorts Night

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 18, 2016

The top three winners of Tuesday’s annual Midwest Independent Film Festival’s (MIFF) “Advertising Community Shorts Night,” out of 17 finalists, will compete for MIFF’s...

312UAV: City’s only store devoted to drone filming

By Ruby Thompson Nov 18, 2016

Tucked away in a small retail store in Wicker Park is the next game changer for the film industry. Owner / photographer / VFX pro Stan Miskiewicz opened 312UAV two years ago as ...

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HistoryMakers’ Jarrett TV talk to air on national PBS

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 18, 2016

“AN EVENING WITH VALERIE JARRETT,” a presentation of The HistoryMakers, the massive archive of interviews with notable African American leaders now part of the Library of Co...

Filmmaker van Davis scores feature funding at AFM

By Colin Costello Nov 16, 2016

Award-winning Chicago filmmaker and screenwriter, Jeffrey van Davis, left the breath-taking panorama of snow-capped mountains of his adopted home of Überlingen, Germany to atte...

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VFX artists Davis and Tiffany join Sarofsky’s staff

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 16, 2016

TWO FREELANCE VFX DESIGNERS were hired by design-driven company Sarofsky: Visual effects and finishing artist Cory Davis and designer Dan Tiffany, Erin Sarofsky and EP Steven An...

PianoForte venue offers A/V music recording rentals

By Pamela Powell Nov 16, 2016

Executive director / founder Thomas Zoells’ PianoForte Studios on Michigan Avenue is a place where serious professional musicians can rehearse, record audio and video, buy a q...

Quriosity’s Lumpkin producing the AICP Show

By Daniel Patton Nov 14, 2016

When Quriosity senior producer Jennifer Lumpkin attended her first AICP Show at the Cultural Center four years ago, she was “overwhelmed” and remembers thinking, “It was g...

OTSC luncheon raffle ticket could win you 4 Cubs seats

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 14, 2016

To help raise money for Off the Street Club at its Thursday, Dec. 1 annual Holiday Luncheon, one of the two big raffle prizes is Cubs tickets for four Wrigley Field dugout seats...

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Local agency tops Ad Age’s 50 Best Places to Work 2016

By Ruth L Ratny Nov 14, 2016

CHICAGO AGENCY BE FOUND ONLINE was ranked Number One in Advertising Age’s Best Places to Work 2016, topping a list of 50 ad agencies throughout the US, including 18 New Y...