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DPs’ camera mastery proven in Zacuto’s 2012 shootout

By Mike Morgan Apr 19, 2012

Zacuto Camera Rentals’ Emmy winning web doc, “The Great Camera Shootout” is back with a revolutionary new twist. "The Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout 2012," copr...

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New DPC’s April 30 spot intros “Lucky Day Lotto”

By Lewis Lazare Apr 19, 2012

So now — in advance of its debut later this month — we have the second TV commercial in what can only be described as a new era in Illinois Lottery marketing. That new era b...

re:think studios’ dazzling 2012 NFL Draft spot airing

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 19, 2012

Brian Bullock got a double charge out of a package of ESPN spots currently airing that his fairly new re:think studios helped create and produced. For one, the assignment ...

Indie Focus

White House snubbed online winning docmakers

by Ed M. Koziarski Apr 18, 2012

Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano’s video My Asian Americana was passed over for a slot in the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Champio...

Characters abound on “Chicagolicious” docu-series

By Carey Lundin Apr 17, 2012

“Chicagolicious,” a new Style Network docu-series being filmed here, hosted a launch event offering makeovers to anyone who got in line early enough. In the spirit of journa...

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“Pure Michigan” spot campaign is pure perfection

By Lewis Lazare Apr 17, 2012

If that day ever arrives when the great god of advertising (wherever he or she may be) must chose the greatest ad campaigns there ever were, surely — if there is any crea...

Emerging crew talent debuts at Mofest7 April 20-22

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 15, 2012

Mo Wagdy likes to think of Mofest7, April 20-22, as “a film and arts festival wrapped into a wrap party, since it’s about the crew people you’ve worked with all year round...

Many new events fill April evenings

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 15, 2012

Events uptempo during the second half of April (accelerated no doubt by Mars and Mercury, planets of creativity and communications going direct) also gives us a choice of m...

Experts tell the latest at Doc Summit, April 21-22

by Ed M. Koziarkski Apr 13, 2012

The most unique value of the April 21-22 Chicago Documentary Summit “is bringing together a wide variety of experts to discuss a wide variety of topics relating to documentary...

Finitzo’s big challenge: The meaning of civilization

By Carey Lundin Apr 13, 2012

Maria Finitzo makes films that wrestle with complex social issues, like Terra Incognita, about how stem cells are mapped, and In The Game, how Title IX rules affect women and sp...

Curtain Calls

Cultural Affairs reclaiming Storefront operations

By Kerry Reid Apr 13, 2012

FOUR STAFF MEMBERS who work with the city’s theater program, largely responsible for running the downtown Storefront Theater, will be out of work as of June 30. The terminatio...

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R/GA’s Grey Goose savvy website in excellent taste

By Lewis Lazare Apr 12, 2012

So what becomes the world’s best tasting vodka? Well, nothing less than one of the slickest, most social media savvy sites now out there in the vast Internet world. ...

Contursi intros revolutionary new LED lights at NAB

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 12, 2012

Phil Contursi of Product Productions says he will be spending all four days at NAB next week in the AAdynTech booth, where he anticipates being busy with visitors wanting to kno...

Roscor’s final curtain: Inventory auction April 24

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 11, 2012

An April 24 auction of millions of dollars worth of AV equipment, furnishings and vehicles will mark the sad finale of Roscor Corp., for more than three decades one of the Midwe...

Sonixphere’s Master Class with virtuoso percussionist

By Mike Morgan Apr 10, 2012

Last fall, Sonixphere’s Greg Allan invited Chicago musicians over to his River East studio for an evening of food, drink and talk followed by some jamming afterwards by guests...

Ovnik, Sproull creative partners in Deaf Dog music

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 10, 2012

Composer/producer John Ovnik has gone from solo to duo for the first time since he started Deaf Dog Music 18 years ago, by forming a creative partnership with his long-time frie...

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Joffrey Ballet’s daringly different sales brochure

By Lewis Lazare Apr 10, 2012

It’s a fact of life in the performing arts now. Crowds no longer just show up and fill theaters on cue. Ticket prices are higher (in some instances dramatically so), and every...

AMC Red Carpet debut for ‘Promise Land’ feature

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 9, 2012

Immigration – anticipation, fear and pain of leaving one’s homeland for life a new country -- is the central theme of the three intertwined stories in the indie dramedy, Pro...

Indie Focus

Doc about troubled arts center plays Cultural Center

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 9, 2012

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, a documentary by producer/director Kelly Luchtman and coproducer, DP and editor Thomas C. Gaunt, about the troubled history of the Acme Artists Community i...

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Element 79’s Supercuts rockin’ integrated campaign

By Lewis Lazare Apr 3, 2012

Does your haircut rock? If not, Supercuts and its ad agency Element 79/Chicago want you to reconsider what kind of cut you are getting and where you are getting it via a n...

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