There they were Sunday morning. A couple of hundred people gathered around the staircase inside the Michigan Avenue entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. They we...
“Side by Side,” the doc that looks at digital technology’s effect on filmmaking screens Monday, Sept. 17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC). With the inexorable r...
DENIS LEARY gets back to his comedian’s chops with a pilot he’s been co-writing and developing for the past year for Fox TV Studios. The single camera half-hour comedy...
Jack Lawrence Mayer, Sarra Jahedi and Ed Hausman were a year out of the University of Chicago when they created the comedy pilot Single Long, based in part on a weekly web serie...
Since July, Midwest Camera Car has begun offering the region’s only locally-available gyro-stabilized robotic camera arm: a Russian Arm from Toronto-based Filmotechnic Canada....
What would any successful event be without a useful post-mortem? And that post-mortem is what the Pompous Society eagerly convened Tuesday night at the Farmhouse, a Midwes...
For Oscar Oboza, being named Optimus’ senior colorist means more than having a new position. It’ll be a homecoming for the Chicago native who has spent the last 13 yea...
One thing we can say with certainty about Energy BBDO/Chicago CEO Tonise Paul, she prefers to keep her agency’s internal business out of the public spotlight and aw...
THE FALL THEATER SEASON is in full swing, and with it comes an array of autumnal soirees. Tuesday, Sept. 11, Seanachai Theatre Company – the company steeped in Irish storytell...
A $7 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will fund start-up costs for a single master control venture called the Digital Convergence Alliance (DCA), betwe...
Jeff Van Steen, founder/creative director of Secret Frequency, the respected pioneer of sound design, audio engineer and composer of commercial tracks, died Aug. 22 in his home ...
One Chicago writer, two from the suburbs and two from Midwestern cities are the finalists of the Chicago’s Screenwriters Network’s third annual Screenwriters Contest who wil...
RENETTA McCANN has returned to Leo Burnett after a four year absence in the important position of US chief talent officer, overseeing all Burnett’s recruitment, training and t...
Colorist Tyler Roth and his assistant, Paul Galati, are the first hires of Company 3, the new Chicago branch of the international color and finishing specialists. Roth joined Co...
Sixteen highly regarded digital asset gurus will speak from a users POV at the Thursday, Sept. 13 all-day Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference covering trends, stra...
When Teri Rogers, CEO of Kansas City-based T2 Studios, felt it was time to expand her fast-growing experiential division XL, she went against the traditional wisdom of opening i...
It was a great party. Tasty passed hors d’oeuvres. Wine in genuine glass goblets. Fun speech. And a lively group of people. Indeed, the best we could h...
PAIR OF FORMER CRC STAFFERS have teamed up to form the new music company Diplomacy Music. They are Mike Middleton, a former CRC producer who produced for Frayne Lewis’ OneSun ...
While many unlikely cities throughout the world have been used as substitutes for Chicago locations for movies and commercials (and not always convincingly) STORY’S recent rev...
Among the achievements of four-time Emmy winner, video activist and documentarian Tom Weinberg is his massive Media Burn Independent Video Archive, which boasts the largest coll...