ONE BOOK ONE CHICAGO has selected award-winning Maria Finitzo / Kartemquin’s “In the Game” doc about a Latino girls’ soccer team at Brighton Park high school for inclusi...
"Uncle John," the debut indie feature from producer Erik Crary and director Steven Piet is on its way to select theatrical distribution by Film Buff, barely six months after it ...
SPIKE LEE has no reason to apologize to Chicago politicians for titling his Chicago-set anti-violence feature “Chiraq” and he won’t stop highlighting gun violence in Ameri...
Fox is capitalizing on the hit show status of hip hop drama “Empire” that films at Cinespace, with season two 30-second spots selling for around $500,000, and sometimes even...
For the last five years, Cutters has hosted a legendary Halloween costume party, aka “Blood Bath,” that had became so wildly popular that last year’s estimated 2,300 guest...
Stir Post Audio's David Kaplan calls engineer Michael Mason’s move to Stir from CRC “a reunion of sorts,” as Stir EP/partners Kaplan and Mindy Verson had worked together e...
Feature doc "Breakfast at Ina’s," from filmmaker Mercedes Kane of Daisy May Films, will have its world premiere in the new, first-time “City & State” section of t...
Starting Sept. 15, the Chicago Creative Cocktail Party (CCCP) will hold its monthly Happy Hour at its new, regular venue, Billy Dec's Rocket Bar & Grill, which fittingl...
With the help of a courageous client and a knack for innovative cinematic metaphors, Digital Hydra partners Hamzah Jamjoom and Patrick Wimp recently gave the Arabic world a TV s...
DDB’S KEITH REINHARD, the man who wrote “You deserve a break today” for McDonald’s and went on to help create global holding company Omnicom, will receive the 2015 Lifet...
It’s nice to have prominent Hollywood filmmakers lighting up Chicago’s independent film scene again — and none is brighter than supernova Adam Leipzig, who launches the IF...
Changes at Beast editorial, Company 3 and Method Studios: Producer Kendall Fash was given a major promotion to director of marketing for Beast’s seven editorial offices&n...
When STIR Post Audio was looking for a third audio mixer they wanted a professional who had worked in a different environment, as executive producer/partner Mindy Verson put it....
Count on a warm event next January when Tony Weisman, CEO of Digitas, accepts the Silver Medal Award from the Chicago Advertising Federation, for a lifetime of contribution...
Ten new students started attending Tribeca Flashpoint College Sept. 2 — not at its downtown Chicago campus, but wherever it’s convenient for them — via a new online degree...
MEGA COUNTRY STAR TOBY KEITH kicks off the return of WTTW/11’s “Soundstage” on public television stations with Thursday’s first taping at the station’s Grainger Studio...
Since opening for business three months ago, Conspiracy, Chicago’s exclusive all-4K production-through-post facility, is in the throes of expansion, having doubled its West Lo...
Co-producers/directors Lynn Millspaugh and Derek Souders of Broad Street Films had no expectation of winning a prize in the 48 Hour Film Project contest, much less sweep the com...
“Seinfeld’s” Soup Nazi and “Parks and Recreation’s” Jerry Gergich will be among the cast at a reception during the Chicago Gala Screening of the romantic comedy feat...
When the Mayne Stage music/food venue general manager Joe Prino, former Metro co-owner and one the most names famous in Chicago’s rock world, proposed a program partnership wi...