Fearful that legislators will cap or kill Michigan's 42% incentives, about 100 film industry workers rallied at the capitol in Lansing Aug. 18, petitioning legislators to keep t...

Cinematographer and Local 600 member, Lawrence Daufenbach, is possibly the youngest owner of an affordable camera rental company which has the hot Red camera as its main focus. ...

DOCUMENTARIAN KEN BURNS comes to Chicago Sept. 16 to speak at a luncheon and presentation for his new book, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," at the Union League Club...

ABEL CINE TECH opened a Midwest sales office and small showroom in Oakbrook Terrace, headed by Kari Hess, and joined by production salesman Gregger Jones, from Abel's New Y...

Hanging in space to tape The Ledge on the Willis Tower Sky Deck was definitely not a gig for acrophobiacs, says Josh Reichlin of 3to1 Studios, whose crew was suspended 103 stori...

It's not retirement for casting director Jane Alderman, but more like a transition back to her theatrical acting roots. The trailblazer who put hundreds of Chicago actors on th...

"Organic Groov," the unique neo soul and spoken word video webisodes, expands into a second venue, "Digital Funtown," which combines in-house productions with user-generated con...

A trio of large, new mobile production vehicles, built and equipped at a cost of nearly $250,000, has been added to Product Productions' fleet of 12 vehicles that includes grip/...

Albert J. Nader was elated as anyone when the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. What he could not have known is just what that would mean for his Assyrian Christian ...

Raleigh Michigan Studios, formerly known as the Motown Motion Picture Studios, has obtained the $75.8 million in financing it needs to convert the idled General Motors plant in ...

Anna Kipervaser's On Look Films embarked on the first of multiple trips to Egypt on Aug. 16, attempting to preserve a thousand-year-old Islamic ritual through film, sound record...

PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE in Stamford, Connecticut this week waiting to be admitted to the first live taping of "The Jerry Springer Show," a fixture in Chicago-originated te...

Firebrand South Side pastor Rev. Michael Pfleger is the latest documentary subject for Bob Hercules of Media Process Group, whose prior films tell the stories of then-Senator Ba...

Since its arrival a few months ago, Resolution Digital Studios' new, massive green screen has proven to one of the facility's major assets. The digital compositing backdrop, ...

"Hannah Free," the Chicago-produced indie, had a local sneak peek screening at a sold out Midwest Independent Film Fest event on August 4. At a producer's panel introduced by...

A definite A&E series that starts shooting in October, and a Fox TV pilot that could turn into a locally-shot series, are the first TV shows to shoot here since "The Beast" las...

Julie Koca of Chicago, who gave up an practicing law to write novels and screenplays full-time, is the grand prize winner in the Chicago Screenwriters Network's first annual scr...

EILEEN WILLENBORG WAS BOWLED OVER at the National AFTRA Convention Aug. 8 when she received a super prestigious Gold Card, the union's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for her ...

BEST FILM PRIZE in the 9th annual Chicago 48 Hour Film Project went to Quicklips Productions' "Gazillion Dollar Sausage," conceived, produced and finished in less than 24 hours ...

Before he died on July 16, Assignment Desk owner, Bill Scheer, had stipulated instead of a funeral he wanted a party, "to remember him in the way he loved to live," said his fri...