BOB HERCULES AND KEITH WALKER'S Media Process Group celebrate their 25th anniversary with a retrospective screening of excerpts from six of their documentaries starting with 198...

After two years at ARU, audio engineer Cory Coken left to join another audio house ? NoiseFloor, the audio post house he founded with designer/mixer Jamie Vanadia in October, 2...

This year's 52nd Chicago|Midwest Emmy Awards ceremonies Nov. 6 appears to be the wrap-up of a very busy festival and awards season for 2010. Park West is the venue where 70...

Wisconsin filmmakers who are promoting the value of reinstating state film incentives have actor Tony Shalhoub speaking out in their behalf. "I believe in the incentives ...

WHAT ARE THE ODDS of filmmakers actually seeing their short film premiere at two international film festivals, being held the same weeks this month, at two widely separated ...

After Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle killed the state's successful film tax incentives last year, both gubernatorial candidates have made reinstating the incentives part of their camp...

WINDY CITY WEST'S PARTY Monday night in L.A. was the smash hit everyone expected from Brenda Sexton, whose Chicago-L.A. Link brought together 400 folks with Chicago connecti...

JAY SUKOW of Group Mind Films ("American Legacy") begins eight days of principal photography Oct. 31 on the company's second feature-length comedy. The new film is "Trubade...

After eight years, 11 features, a patented Exquisite Corpse collaboration model, and dozens of supported productions and workshops, nonprofit film incubator Split Pillow will sh...

What's considered junk to some may be treasures to other. Eight out of 10 people have at least one highly-collectable treasure hidden somewhere inside their home, yet few kno...

Paramount was hit with a lawsuit Tuesday by the family of 24-year old Gabriela Cedillo, the Chicago extra who was injured this summer during the filming of "Transformers 3" in H...

DSLR capability is about to change again. Zacuto owners Steve Weiss and Jens Bogehegn developed the Zacuto Z-Finder EVF, what they call the "key to having the DSLR camera in-li...

The Illinois(e)Makers program of six locally made features -- showcasing the best features, documentaries and short films with their roots in our home state ? figures prominentl...

When Kit Woods retired last June after a total of 33 years working for SAG/AFTRA, her plan was to set off with her husband in their new RV "and travel where we can drive," she ...

Legendary documentary filmmakers, D A Pennebaker and his wife, Chris Hegedus, have whipped up a docu concoction that centers on the owner of the French Pastry School of Chicago...

COLUMBIA COLLEGE GRADS Shakena Reed, Ira Childs and Kaira Peyton are collaborating on "THE TRIO PROJECT," a genre-spanning omnibus triptych they plan to submit to the American B...

Composer/musicians Frayne Lewis and Mike Middleton have a lot in common. They both grew up in their fathers' music and were mentored by their fathers: Frayne by jazz legend Ra...

Simage Network is bringing new video content to approximately 25 local club and restaurant venues, including the marquis screen outside Excalibur nightclub, through a deal with...

Midwest Independent Film Festival director Mike McNamara promises a superior crop of personal projects by commercial pros at the Second Annual 2010 Midwest Advertising Community...

The sale of Hangar42, the defunct Grand Rapids studio project that went down in flames this summer when the developer was charged with attempted fraud, is being revived as Mich...