After 19 years at the Chicago Film Office -- a tenure five years longer than CFO director Rich Moskal's -- Kathy Byrne leaves for a new job. She joins AFTRA/SAG May 17 as t...

PILOT UPDATES. Networks this week began screening and evaluating 68 pilots that were shot during the first quarter for possible prime-time fall series slots. Here's the rea...

Noted entertainment attorneys, Tom Leavens, Peter Strand and Jerry Glover, also noted for their contributions to non-profit arts organizations, have formed a LaSalle St. law fi...

It's an understatement to say that it was Chicago's night at the 2010 Hugo International Awards for Television Excellence. DDB, Draftfcb and Leo Burnett didn't just win bi...

AUDITIONS START IN MAY for Michael Curtis Johnson's debut feature, the $40,000 coming-of-age drama "Savage Youth." He plans to shoot in and around his hometown of Joliet this Au...

The Tuesday, May 18 auction of Film & Tape Works will include the auctioning one of the 30-year old company's most important asset: its client list. Inspection of the equipm...

A short film examining the issues of free speech while chronicling a veteran's protest to a flag hung upside down, won the grand prize in the 2010 Illinois Humanities Council's ...

Director David J. Miller's "for mature audiences" webisode series, "Assisted Living," has reached a major milestone with the Tuesday airing of the show's 40th episode and a Seas...

Early last April, Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions departed for the Sudan to shoot a short documentary about the reunion of Kuek Garang, one of 27,000 "lost...

Young, aspiring agency creatives get a golden opportunity to show their stuff to a Who's Who of Chicago advertising creative executives and recruiters at Portfolio Night 8 (PN8)...

EQUIPMENT SALES PRO PETE DEBENNY and four other former Midwest Media Group salesmen moved to Burbank, California-based VTP, Inc., to expand the 30-year old reseller into fer...

Director Mark Klein's thriving tabletop company, MK Films, is the latest local production house to become a signatory of Studio Mechanics Local 476. The agreement was signed...

At a Wednesday morning meeting of the school's 450 students, staff and teachers, president/CEO Howard Tullman and academic dean Paula Froehle announced that the school is now T...

The Chicago comedy short, "Campus Cops," will be in the right place when it screens among the 70 selections at the L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival April 15-18 -- the largest event o...

The Film Unit of Teamsters Local 727 hit a momentous historical milestone March 10 when it admitted -- are you ready for this? -- its very first female member in its 70 year his...

SALVADOR ROMELLO BARCENA'S supernatural thriller/action drama, "Fallen Souls," has its world premiere April 16 at the Portage Theater. The two hour film, described by Barcen...

An audience of more than 35,000 is expected to attend the 16th Chicago Latino International Film Festival, April 16-29, called "the largest, oldest and best Latino film festival...

Two screenwriting gurus are coming to Chicago within the next two weeks, under the auspices of Linda Frothingham's ChicagoHollywood.com, whose mission is to share the trade secr...

Executive producer David Leonardis has rounded up a diverse group of Chicagoans with celebrity status to discuss wide-ranging topics on his upcoming TV series, bowed Tuesday on ...

A NEW CHIEF CREATIVE FOR DDB after a two year search appears to be Ewan Paterson, 42, ECD at London's Cemmow Horby Inge & Partners. He will join the agency in June at...