As 12,000 members of Lions Club International converge in Sydney, Australia for their annual convention June 28-July 2, they're seeing a massive and elaborate 100x21-ft. project...

Write, shoot and edit a film in 48 hours is the sixth annual challenge made to Chicago filmmakers by the 48 Hour Film Project, to start Aug. 13 and deliver a finished film by Au...

GINA FONTANINI, a film composer and music supervisor who worked at Studio Chicago/Music Industry Workshop, is making her directorial debut with the feature "Follow the Leader," ...

Filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary, "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within," gets a theatrical release from New York-based Oscilloscope Laboratories this fall and a broadcast on ...

With her June 30 retirement nearing, Michigan Film Office, Janet Lockwood can finally reveal her secret. Although she's been the face of Michigan film for 19 years -- and ...

Year-old commercial and creative production company, Elkhorn Entertainment, shoots a satirical comedy pilot, "Capital Dog," as its first TV project July 10-11. "The heart...

A remark made by Leo Burnett executive director Vincent Geraghty, producer of the recent Samsung 3D TV commercial, and reported online, brought attention to 3D stereoscopic work...

HGTV'S "New Spaces" host, Jim Parks, has teamed with Evanston's Brella Productions to produce "Today's Green Minute," a webisodes series based on Parks' popular newspaper column...

Quite possibly one of the first Chicago area company to work in stereoscopic 3D (S3D) is Chris Ryan's Chaos Studios of Carpentersville. Ryan, a visual effects supervisor and ...

Top record executives are expected to attend pop singer Anya V's concert debut Friday, June 25th at Vain Nightclub in Lincoln Park. The 21-year old singing phenom is the fi...

"TRANSFORMERS 3" IN 3D? That's what director Michael Bay and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told USA Today -- that they will shoot in 3D and oh yes, it will have "a kille...

PRODUCER MICHAEL NEHS of Frontsight Productions is slated to shoot "Blue World," his long-in-development thriller, in Chicago next spring. Director Charley Rivkin and Ad...

Writer/producer Michelle De Long of Mimi Productions has signed a syndication deal to carry her Christian music series "The Merge" and "The Merge OUTLOUD" on national satellite ...

SOL FX DESIGN'S first project for the Cartoon Network was creating the opening title sequence for its first live action series, "UnNatural History." The (so far) 8-episode s...

Evanston Online is launching a news division with regular online video broadcasts of Evanston news, making it "the only video-based news source for Evanston," according to manag...

A year ago, now-nationally famous "American Idol" runner-up Crystal Bowersox was an unknown singer who arrived for a video shoot in a car whose bumper fell off, with a baby in o...

The first canvas photo backdrop Tamara Morrison ever painted was a scene of LaSalle Street, which she painted overnight after receiving a frantic call from high-end commercial ...

Construction resumed on the Museum of Broadcast Communications' unfinished, 62,000-sq. ft. building at 360 N. State, after four years of broken promises and starts and stops on ...

COMMA MUSIC was the only Chicago honoree among the hundreds of bi-coastal commercial companies that swept the 19th annual AICP Show June 8 held annually at New York's Museum ...

The online comedy series, Red Bar Radio, which plays at Red Bar Comedy two nights a week at Ontourage night club, will host the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival's TBS LOL Lounge ...