“Salvaging,” the short film that won IFP’s 2010 Production Fund Competition, was written and directed by Joe Lyons, who works as a Local 476 union electrician and grip.“...
Sons of evangelical missionaries in Indonesia and Latin America, respectively, Andrew Freer and Samuel Díaz-Littauer grew believing “homosexuality was one of the ‘really ba...
As Bitter Jester Creative celebrates its 10th anniversary, the Highland Park production company has rebounded from a tough year, with a major new client, a TV pilot in the can, ...
A year and a half in business, corporate producers Little Cabin Films have added Garrett Popcorn to a growing stable of educational, real estate and fitness clients.“We’re j...
Joe Swanbert has a role in pseudonymous Bernard and Bichard Shumanski’s locally-shot “tender sexploitation flick,” “Blackmail Boys.” TLA Releasing picked it up for the...
Back in December, 2007, when ARU partners/engineers Don Arbuckle and Mark Zeboski purchased the venerable recording studio from original owner Mike King, they didn’t have ti...
The timing was unfortunate but the blizzard made cancellation Wednesday of an advance screening of “The Chicago Code’s” first episode inevitable.
The screening would’...
Laura Szymber’s Axiom Megamedia is working with ESPN to develop a series of Monday Night Football promos for the cable network’s 2011 NFL season.The full-service productio...
This winter, Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions is rolling out the 24-episode entrepreneurship web series, “Trep Life,” which he says offers a “unique, ...
When a Resolution Digital Studio client wanted to enhance the bland image interest of an interview subject, RDS executive producer Mitch Apley felt this was the perfect projec...
BEAST EDITORIAL IS SMOKIN' with the additon of Smoke artist Mark Anderson hired last month upon his return home from a two-year stint at Crash & Sue in Minneapolis. ...
Behind the title of John Davies’ feature-length doc, “Phunny Business: A Black Comedy,” is a story of “what happens when you combine comedy, race and Chicago politics,...
A scene from Fine’s “Cherry” THE 2011 SEASON of the Midwest Independent Film Festival kicks off Feb. 1 with the dramedy “Cherry,” for which Jeffrey Fine put his suc...
Three Michigan-shot features premiere this week at Sundance: "Another Happy Day," a drama starring Ellen Barkin, Demi Moore and Kate Bosworth; the comedies “Cedar Rapids," ...
Breaking into first person voice is not something I ordinarily do, nor do I single out special interests. However, I’m making an exception to flag your attention to a speci...
Panasonic’s new hybrid DSLR/video camera makes its debut in Chicago at Zacuto Camera, the first local rental house to offer Panasonic’s new AG-AF100 turn-key camera packag...
Awards went to Chicago’s most talented entertainers in 45 categories at the recent star-studded 30th Annual Chicago Music Awards (CMA) that celebrated the city’s vibrant m...
Veteran marketing entrepreneur Steve Conner has returned to his childhood love of science fiction. His latest venture is Phathom, a sci-fi brand extending to fiction, comic boo...
When Jim Olen was thinking about leaving the Rhythm Caf? and the music business after 15 years, an audio producer fortuitously showed up at his recording studio, liked the facil...
MUSIC BOX FILMS, the local distributor which has had a very good year with its "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Millennium Trilogy and "Mesrine," among other releases, has acquire...