Virginia and Elaine Madsen’s doc screens
NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine
NOT EVERYONE gets the pleasure and satisfaction of working with their mother, but Oscar winner Virginia Madsen teamed up with her filmmaker mom, Elaine
Music producer Hank Neuberger shot the Warped Tour’s 15th Anniversary Show in L.A. on Sept. 6, edited in Chicago, and delivered the master in “ten pressure packed and exhilarating
At the 2009 World Tour of New York Festivals Advertising Awards in Chicago last month, Leo Burnett won an impressive 10 World Medals at a gala presentation at the Cultural
Thanks to a local connection, director John Anderson spent a week in July shooting for Disney English in Shanghai, where the company established its first English-language instruction centers in China.
BRUCE MONTGOMERY, a co-founder of the two-year old, ever-growing Chicago Convergence, has stepped up as president. He is CEO of Wi-Fi Technologies and executive producer and host of
FIRST ASSIGNMENT for Towers Productions’ new casting director, Becky Cattie is to find the perfect cast for Towers’ “Housewives of Chicago” reality TV show, currently in
THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN were those issued by Universal Studios for the Chicago preview of “Public Enemies” that screened in two theatres in the River East 21
DIRECTOR HAROLD RAMIS receives the “Just for Laughs” Lifetime Achievement Award at the red carpet screening of Columbia Pictures’ “Year One” at the Music Box, June 16.
Columbia College new Internet and Mobile Media concentration scored an online success with the May 7 launch of its web series “Sexperts.” It garnered 70,000 viewers in three days and
Former DePaul Digital Cinema professors Dave Stone, Vanessa Ament and Lou Kleinman are still reeling from the impact of the unexpected and unexplained decision by DePaul University officials to fire
Veteran actor Steven Saltz has taken his online celebrity interview show to a late night TV show concept ? a half-hour of interviews and performances by local and visiting talent.
ACTOR, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR ANDY RICHTER joined Story for exclusive representation as a commercial director ? the first time he is available to direct spots. Story will market
HMS Media, the Emmy-winning arts programming specialists, is looking forward to one of its biggest and busiest years in its 21 years of business.
Between now and
Upwardly mobile young adults were targeted by the producers of “The ?O’ Mission” as the audience for their newly launched webseries that “organically introduces” Tracey Powell’s STD testing and awareness
One of the uses to which Hector Perez of Rocket Productions will put his new high-end HD camera will be minority-designated production services for Energy BBDO’s new Illinois Lottery account.
It isn’t everyday that a legendary cinematographer visits Chicago, so it was no surprise that the workshop Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC will conduct in Chicago on Feb. 8 was instantly sold
“Sometimes I worry, should I cry in this scene? Is it too obvious a choice? A wise director told me once, ?It’s not important that I cry ? it’s important
Emmy-winning producer Joan O’Connor is suffering culture shock.
Recently returned here after spending two decades toiling in the Los Angeles reality TV trenches, she says, “The
ALWAYS BUSY GEORGE ELDER of Luminair wrapped the Chicago shoot for the seventh season of “Mexico: One Plate at a Time.”
The best of Chicago’s advertising is apparently created by a handful of major ad agencies, if the number of prizes they won at the recent Creative Club Awards is any