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...

"What's Wrong with Virginia," the first feature produced by TicTock Studios of Holland, Mich. last year and shot on many West Michigan locations, will have its world premiere at...

Lansing -- Ken Droz, communications consultant for the Michigan Film Office, who has been the public face of Michigan's explosive film production since the incentives were passe...

The upcoming first Chicago Food Film Festival has all the ingredients to become a staple of the city that loves to eat and watch films ? paired for the first time together in a ...

The foundation grant that helped allow Steve James to produce "Hoop Dreams" 20 years ago is back on board with a sizeable grant to Kartemquin Films for completion of James' late...

When Foundation Content's Samantha Hart said the company was expanding its Los Angeles operation she was understating the undertaking. The Streeterville production/post house...

Rep Liz Laine's reputation preceded her when she received a call out of the blue from Scott Dikkers, the multi-talented filmmaker, director, cartoonist, most famously associated...

EDUARDO LETAMENDI AND ARMANDO HERNANDEZ are two of the 12 feature filmmaking fellows attending the 2010 NALIP Latino Producers Academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico through Aug. 20. ...

Midway Films, the team behind the 2007 Slamdance-selected meta-noir "Crime Fiction," are back with the caper movie "Mulligan," shooting in Chicago and Lake Geneva now through Au...

Professional musician Daniel Pritzker has written and directed "Louis," a black-and-white silent film with a live musical performance that starts its five-city tour in Chicago A...

Over the past few weeks, Nick Sanabria has been moving gear and furnishings out of his Radio City Recording and Audio studio at 445 E. Ohio Street in preparation of closing Sep...

A MULTIMEDIA WHIRLPOOL PROJECT for Leo Burnett turned out to be STORY'S biggest job in terms of duration ?- 17 days of shooting stills and motion for the appliance manufacture...

Chicago will get its first home-grown, independent PBS TV series in 30 years ? a kids' series at that ? when the "Jr. Cuisine Cooking Show" premieres Aug. 28 on PBS outlet, WYCC...

West Michigan continues to attract non-stop production ? commercial shots as well as the flow of feature films. The area's shores, scenery and familiar landmarks were front a...

WHAT AN UNEXPECTEDLY NICE GESTURE. In surely what's got to be a first in the 35-year annals of Hollywood-in-Chicago entertainment production, departing director Ron Howard, ...