JOE LYONS' dramatic short script, "Salvaging," won the 2010 IFP/Production Fund Grant out of "an unprecedented number of finalists," said Production Fund co-chair Laurel Ward. ...

Media Process Group moved into its West Loop facility in 2005 in part to be closer to Harpo Studios, which is just a few blocks east of MPG on Washington Boulevard. But eve...

Steppenwolf Films is the producing entity for "The Last Rites of Joe May," a low budget indie starring home boy Dennis Farina that wrapped Dec. 19 after a four-weeks of shooting...

The partners of Chicago's first hybrid digital media company, Utopic, officially opening for business Jan. 4 in River West, are perched on the crest of the first major transform...

Veteran photographer and commercial director Dennis Manarchy plans a sweeping multimedia series of super-large-format portraits. It will span all 50 states and lead to a travel...

Come mid-January, John McGrath will be living the life that many of us can only dream about -- free from responsibilities and free to do the things he's always wanted to do. ...

THE SUPER SECRETIVE WACHOWSKIS may be ramping up their next movie, with Huffington Post publisher and politico Ariana Huffington, of all people, involved in it. Photos she p...

Evening news anchor Cheryl Burton and morning anchor Hosea Sanders host the Dec. 19 debut episode of "Heart & Soul," Ch. 7's quarterly series profiling cultural figures in Chica...

MIGUEL SILVEIRA of Pangea Media Productions screened a preview of his IFP/Chicago Production Fund-wining short "Rooftop Wars" at the IFP Holiday Party last Thursday. Set o...

Newly formed 20 West Productions will start the New Year off with the proverbial bang, as the TV documentary company's first new series, "The Squeeze," about local law enforce...

HYBRID PRODUCTION STUDIO VITAMIN worked with award-winning spot director Bob Carmichael to create "The Story" music video for Maroon 5, using hundreds of stills shot by Carmi...

Director/producer Jenna Maria Constantine's $350,000 feature "A Sicilian Odyssey," the fictional journey of a young American writer uncovering her mother's deepest secret, is al...

The Illinois Humanities Council is seeking entries for its second annual "Looking for Democracy: How to Make It, How to Sustain It" short film/video contest. The grand prize ...

"ER" executive producer John Wells is returning to Chicago Jan. 13 to shoot scenes for the pilot for his new Showtime series, "Shameless," starring William H. Macy. Like "ER,...

CH. 11 PREMIERES two other excellent Chicago-made shows two days apart -- Dec. 17 for the doc, "Raising the Barre: The Homer Bryant Story," and Dec. 19 for Mike Houlihan's indi...

After three hours of picketing by two union locals early Dec. 8 to protest a production company's unwillingness to sign a labor agreement that provides health benefits to memb...

THE SUPER SECRETIVE WACHOWSKIS may be ramping up their next movie, with Huffington Post publisher and politico Ariana Huffington, of all people, involved in it. Photos she ...

"We're gaining recognition," says Chicago Screenwriters Network president Sonny Wareham in announcing the start of CSN's second competition, and the addition of several more hig...

CHARISE STUDEVILLE of Lotus Girl Films is in production on a documentary about Common Threads, the organization started by celebrity chef Art Smith of Table 52. The purpose i...

THE 24 HOUR FILM SCHOOL the afternoon of Dec. 12 promises to deliver some real world insights and inside info from four specialists, including that rare Hollywood species in th...