VINCE LAWRENCE'S Slang Music has added another service -- creating iPhone apps under a new company, iLL Concepts, LLC, with partners Thomas Beckmann and Jack Eisenberg. First ...

"1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim," a video adapted by Anida Yoeu Ali from her own performance and poem, not only won the $20,000 grand prize but also the $5,000 music video/...

Possibly the first comedy to shoot anywhere in stereoscopic 3D will be directed by Hollywood executive turned Columbia College professor this July in Chicago. Kevin Cooper ma...

Timing really is everything. Consider: Freelance colorist Tom Rovak attended Foundation Post's recent S3D event and met up with president Samantha Hart, who had been consideri...

VINCE LAWRENCE'S Slang Music has added another service -- creating iPhone apps under a new company, iLL Concepts, LLC, with partners Thomas Beckmann and Jack Eisenberg. First ...

The City of Allen Park is fast becoming a film mecca in southeast Michigan. The Center for Film Studies is moving there from Madison Heights to a developing studio center on So...

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...