Creative editor Nikki Vapensky recently joined post house Hootenanny after 18 years with Whitehouse Post, saying she was “ready to move into a different style of company,” a...

For the second year, Industry Days Oct. 20-23 during the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival brings together “an auspicious group of 38 top executives, financiers, and fi...

Now airing is a Chicago Bulls’ 10-minute documentary, “Week One,” a first-ever, behind-the-scenes look at the team at Training Camp practice sessions as it gears up for th...

VETERAN AD MAN RON BESS, who in August was named president/CEO of Hy Connect agency, was just appointed CEO of the agency’s ownership entity, Boston-based Myelin Communication...

AbelCine camera sales and training center at Cinespace is hosting its first Fall Tech Expo Saturday, Oct. 8, bringing together new cameras and lenses that were introduced earlie...

Optimus promoted senior producer Tracy Spera and EP/VFX and design John Desir to executive producers, “roles in which they also will assume internal leadership and business de...

Post house Utopic’s award-winning editor / partner Craig Lewandowski partnered with acclaimed director and motion/still photographer Sandro Miller to produce a film in wh...

After a 14 year absence, Panavision cameras has come back to Chicago in a big way -- thanks to the current flow of television and film activity -- after an absence of 14 years, ...

The Chicago-headquartered AICP / Midwest has elected new officers and board beginning Oct 1 for a two-year term, with Mark Androw of STORY reelected for a third term as presiden...

A 30-SECOND CUBS SPOT, "Fly the W," created by Chicago Cubs’ agency Schafer Carter Condon (SCC) featuring the narration of injured Cubs catcher Kyle Schwarber, was designed to...

The Midwest’s premiere screening event — DePaul School of Cinematic Arts’ annual Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference — Oct. 8 at its Loop campus, is an afternoon of pane...

The next 10 days will be especially exciting for talent agent Marisa Paonessa. She will be making two consecutive weekend trips to New York to celebrate the TV and film premier...

The sky’s the limit for the Steward brothers Chris and Tim and their father, Jim, who have just launched their Dirty Birds Aerial Imagery commercial drone photography company ...

When then-10 year old Khali Spraggins read for a part in one of Vera J. Brooks’ productions last year, Brooks was so impressed by her natural acting talent that she a wrote an...