Agency producer par excellence Lisa Burke, who’s spent her entire career producing commercials for many of the world’s biggest brands and best directors, has moved to the ...
When DePaul University husband-and-wife academics Matthew Irvine and Kristyn Benedyck agreed to join the University of Cincinnati, school president Dr. Santa J. Ono was so pl...
KRIS SWANBERG’S SUNDANCE HIT indie drama “Unexpected,” will start its limited theatrical release at the Music Box Theatre, July 24, following screenings at 13 US and int...
LA-based screenwriter/producer Jeff Schimmel brings his unique two-day "Maximum Screenwriting" seminar to Chicago for the first time this weekend, delving into “what the book...
ENERGY BBDO'S MARK TAYLOR'S abrupt departure as chief creative officer was announced by president/CEO Tonise Paul at an office meeting Friday, who cited his leaving for unexplai...
The first union contract between members of radio’s Chicago Public Media (CPM) and SAG-AFTRA was overwhelmingly ratified June 30, after nearly two years of negotiations t...
THREE NEW AT LEVITHAN are producer James Turek, who earlier had spent eight years in LA; software engineer David Braun, a recent Brown University grad with a BA in Mathematics...
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 ...
