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INDIE CINEMA

$170K in grants for MPG’s Maya Angelou feature doc

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 20, 2014

“It's been a banner month here,” says Media Process Group's Bob Hercules, with justification. MPG’s film, “Maya Angelou: The People’s Poet,” just ...

NEW WORK

NEXT/NOW’s sports video games play at new eatery

By Daniel Patton Apr 20, 2014

Diners at the River North eatery can enter a virtual arena with Richard Dent, Frank Thomas, Patrick Kane, and Darren Haydar Thanks to interactive marketing agency NEXT...

Ch. 20’s Buddy Guy’s blues show a prelude to series

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 15, 2014

WYCC/20’s two hour special about Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy premiering Friday, April 18 highlights the PBS station’s launch of a major music series that continues the st...

Cap Gun reps “Teachers” director Matt Miller for spots

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 15, 2014

If there are images in this attachment, they will not be displayed. Download the original attachmentCap Gun Collective produced and Chicago director Matt Miller...

Special Report

Biggest trends at NAB: 4K (everywhere) and gimbals

By Andy Jarosz Apr 14, 2014

NAB 2014 in Las Vegas once again managed to surprise the 98,000 professionals from 159 countries who attended with its spectacular number of exhibits and enormous variety of new...

The Colonie’s April 24 party to show off new space

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 14, 2014

THE COLONIE won’t be exhibiting the work of new artists on its walls, as it usually does for its parties. The big attraction at its Thursday, April 24 event will be...

Behind The Scenes

Walsh’s indie comedy premised on LA’s therapy craze

By Carey Lundin Apr 14, 2014

When Chicago native Matt Walsh (HBO TV series “Veep,” “The Hangover”) was getting started in his stage career in the mid-‘80s, he acted in dramatic plays at Ch...

The Mill promotes 3; Yeater now managing director

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 11, 2014

AFTER A YEAR IN CHICAGO, The Mill is celebrating what its CEO, Robin Shenfield, calls “an incredibly warm welcome by strengthening the team and recognizing the fantastic role ...

Brody’s third indie comedy feature opens nationally

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 9, 2014

Reid Brody’s 2DS Productions -- Chicago’s fastest-growing indie film company -- is sending invitations to the community for the premiere of its third film, the offbeat comed...

Reel People

Writer Leeper’s first feature filming in Evanston

By Carey Lundin Apr 9, 2014

When a very young Moira McMahon Leeper took classes at Evanston’s Piven Workshop, her teacher advised her not to plan things out, “but even then,” she said, “in my min...

Why 4K cameras, TV sets are on fast track to market

By Jonah Rubash Apr 9, 2014

Affordable 4K production, new codecs, 4K monitors and 4K venues are rapidly coming forward, thus opening a debate over the merits of 4K production in what is still considered to...

Sarofsky produces titles for America’s #1 movie

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 7, 2014

Last Friday, studio owner/executive creative director Erin Sarofsky of eponymous Sarofsky held a party to celebrate the theatrical release of Disney/Marvel’s “Captain Amer...

Method president kills rumors of closing shop here

by Ruth L Ratny Apr 7, 2014

RUMORS FLYING all over about the alleged closing here of visual effects Method Studios, a division of LA-based Deluxe Entertainment Group, are categorically denied by Me...

Renee Crown Media Center new name of WTTW building

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 7, 2014

After more than 50 years of simply being called “the broadcast facility,” WTTW’s three-storey building at 5400 N. St. Louis on the Northeastern University campus, will h...

See Music scores Coors’ Light pint bottle intro spot

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 3, 2014

Commonground tapped Chuck Bein’s See Music to produce the soundtrack for the agency’s glacially cold introduction of Coors Light Special Edition aluminum pint bottle, in a...

R/GA’s new CCO MDavid Low is from the West Coast

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 3, 2014

R/GA RAMPED UP its 4-year old Chicago digital agency with the appointment of MDavid Low (not a typo, that’s his real name) as executive creative directo...

Despite limitations, Schimmel produces dream job

by Dan Patton Apr 2, 2014

After logging 18 years on some of the most recognizable commercials to come out of LA, director Mark Schimmel got an offer for the type of job that he had dreamed about si...

STORY’s new VCF spots expand on earlier campaign

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 1, 2014

STORY’s LA-based director David Orr filmed a new campaign for VCF (Value City Furniture) for SBC Advertising of Columbus, Ohio, a follow-up to a previous campaign “that was ...

Flavor’s 8 spots over 6 months for global tech giant