Given the extraordinary output of indie films in search of an audience, filmmakers Ben Hicks and Jerry Tran have created Fandependent Films an online indie distribution platfor...
Kelli and Estlin Feigley’s Dreaming Tree Films non-profit division, Fresh Films, is producing a tech-centered movie that places teens behind the camera and in every other pos...
After decades in Chicago as one of the foremost table top companies in the US, Big Deahl Productions’ has merged its Chicago studio into Resolution Productions Group (RPG), ...
TICKETS FOR "THE COCKUPS – The Motion Picture," a feature written and directed by Gerard Jamroz of Mobilwave Films, are back on sale for the July 23 premiere after the fir...
FOR THOSE AGENCY STAFFERS who are desk bound and work long hours (i.e., everyone) Loop-based Animated Storyboards Chicago (ASB)encourages you to participate in a healthy activit...
NBC’s latest doc reality show, “First Dates,” began shooting the 8-episode, one-hour series Friday through Aug. 5 at upscale MK restaurant in River West, with a crew of a...
The end of Michigan’s film incentives leaves the state’s film community wondering about its future. Planned productions such as “Beverly Hills Cop 4,” “Nort...
GripWrite Productions partners, key grip Danial Miller and writer Timothy Morgan, are producing their first film, “The Casket,” a dramatic 27-minute short, the first of th...
Women in Film/Chicago has elected a new president, who is a partner in a new post house, and five new board members to guide the organization over the next two years. T...
The inspiration for sci-fi drama "Convergence," a new webseries from brothers Curtis and Corey Gilbert of p3 mediaworks, came from a chemical cloud that Curtis Gilbert saw ...
THEATRE TALK SERIES, hosted by the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) and the Music Box Theatre, selected “Cartel Land” for its July 10 screening. Directed by M...
A joyously narrated and illustrated tribute to honor the life of her dog, Lucy, garnered DePaul University graduate student Zoe Lubeck the top U.S. Student Film award at the r...
The Chicago Federation of Musicians (CFM) is holding meetings with ad agencies to inform them about the new, breakthrough union contract provision that saves money on original ...
STIR POST AUDIO crafted the signature sound for Energy BBDO’s new global 5 Gum campaign, “Life Happens in 5,” that targets Millennials and features them in each of...
Former Filmworkers’ media specialist Zachary Rudd and actor Clayton Fox created and produced a pilot for an off-beat comedy TV series that premieres Thursday, July 9, at the...
“THE CITY AS STUDIO: the State of the Art” is the theme of Chicago Artists Month (CAM) Oct. 1-Nov. 15, inviting local artists and arts organizations to participate in the 2...
Historically, pharma creative campaigns don’t make the cut at Cannes Health. Some say pharma campaigns are just not at the same level as consumers’ like “This Girl Can...
For the past six months, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Tim Novak and Chris Fusco have taken potshots at the Chicago film industry in their “Watchdogs” articles. The most...
Beware! Be informed! There’s a looming possibility of a nearly 10% Illinois advertising tax being imposed to help stanch the state’s need for new and more revenue...
Last week definitely was not a good week for Chicago advertising, with major accounts moving to New York agencies and leaving the Chicago ad market bereft of $420 million in bil...
