Networking flashmob "Meeting Massive" opened the cutting edge Chicago Motion Graphics Festival, running through Saturday, which has expanded mightily over the past five years to...

BIG, IMPORTANT NEW SOUNDS are coming from Mindy Verson and David Kaplan's Audio Producers Group as they are now representing 15 chart-topping musical recording artists, for...

Roger Ebert returns to television next January with a new weekly half-hour show, "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies," produced by Chaz and Roger Ebert, and featuring two co-ho...

Video production and creative web firm AKA Media Inc., is Chicago's sole privately held media company to make Inc. Magazine's 2010 list of 5,000 fastest growing companies. The...

Chicago Recording Company created Freelancerinc.com "to address the interests and needs of the new society of freelance professionals," says CRC VP Michael Gullickson, who manag...

Elise and Gregg Jaffe were all grins as 75 friends, family, vendors, freelancers, and clients celebrated their Chicago-based Big Teeth Productions' five-year anniversary as a on...

Grant Gustafson, award-winning spot editor known for his high-profile work on Anheuser Busch brands, has joined Cutters, from a dozen years at The Whitehouse and its predecesso...

ARU Recording has formalized its various additional music services into a new breakout division, Tonic Music, headed by ARU's music supervisor Jessie LaBelle and offering origi...

Some 300 guests are expected to attend WIF's fifth annual Focus Awards Oct. 14 at the Mart Plaza Hotel, when Ch. 11 producer Jamie Ceaser and broadcaster/activist Merri Dee wil...

Although the fall season has only just begun, Joone Studios and Zombie Army Productions are already into deep into Halloween, with Season 2: "The Days of the Living Dead," a w...

"Transformers 3" has wrapped in Chicago and canceled its scheduled its final Millennium Park shoot, following what a Paramount executive has called "a freak accident." Gab...

A funeral mass was held Wednesday for video/videotape pioneer and postproduction leader, Doyle Kaniff, who Sept. 3 of a heart condition at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. ...

Chicago's technology industry got a big boost recently when Mayor Daley announced the formation of the Mayor's Committee on Technology Infrastructure consisting of 20 respected ...

Earlier this year, Towers Productions was looking for unique Chicago women for a proposed reality TV series. In the process, they met Leslie Forrester, who embodied the qualiti...

In the off chance you can't personally make it to the Detroit International Jazz Festival this Labor Day weekend, just fire up the your laptop or mobile device and tune into Ja...

MIKE SCHMIEDELER, an 11-year Towers Productions' veteran, was promoted to VP/development and executive producer, from managing director. Earlier, he'd been Towers' VP/p...

Reaves producing urban Christian drama based on Las Vegas minister C. Regi Rodgers's memoir Parris Reaves of HAWKfilmz Enterprize, who produced the recent "Ran$sum Games," ...

"It was crazy," says Resolution Digital Studio executive producer Mitch Apley, referring to both sweeping 48 Hour Film Production Awards Tuesday night and the non-stop productio...

OCTOBER WILL BE HERE quicker than we can say "Chicago International Film Festival." The 46th annual event Oct. 7-21 will host 150 important films from all over the world, sta...

WENDY JO CARLTON, director of the Sharon Gless drama "Hannah Free," which won acclaim on the LGBT festival circuit last year, is shooting her follow-up feature, the lesbian roma...