Since 2003, Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin of Long Distance Productions have been accompanying swamp poet Martha Serpas on visits to the Mississippi Delta, documenting disappe...

If Unity Studios is evicted from the Allen Park Studio complex for not paying its rent, it's unclear whether the property will remain a film studio. Allen Park Mayor Gary Bur...

DAN ABBATE'S GORILLA TANGO THEATER is launching Gorilla Tango TV, a series of shorts up to five minutes in length for the web and for a live event and screening on July 15. The...

Filmmaker, playwright and theater director Stephen Cone returns to his native South Carolina this July to make his semiautobiographical third feature, "The Wise Kids." The so...

A year after its successful web series "Sexperts," the Columbia College TV department's Internet and Mobile TV concentration launched its second web series, "The Rent," on May 1...

A funny thing happened to Bert Haas on the way to Zanies ? The club chain's executive VP decided that it was time for local comics to stand up and flex their comedy chops to...

Christian TV producer Total Living Network, which sold its Aurora studio complex in a leaseback deal last December, is aggressively retooling for a transition to producing short...

THE AICE CHICAGO'S BEST AWARD went to Optimus' Craig Lewandowski for a spot for Cricket Wireless from Element 79, at the gala national AICE Awards Show held Thursday night at th...

Media makers, who are pushing the boundaries of commercial, narrative, and documentary production, encouraged a recent IFP 2010 Producers Series audience to explore opportunitie...

New York-based Vladar Company is coming to Chicago this June to shoot a 90-minute documentary about Chicago rapper Twista. "I am looking forward to shooting in Chicago and...

Before he wrote "The Merry Gentleman," Ron Lazzeretti wrote and directed four 20-minute films that always he had in mind to marry them with a thematic thread that links them tog...

Combine the power of Facebook with the irresistible appeal of appearing on a national TV show and whaddaya get? How about 1,200 kids from 36 states responding to the Facebook...

When producer John Bernin met Chuck Harrison, the pioneer industrial designer who created some of Sears' greatest success products, at an Evanston caf? a few years ago, "I reali...

It looks like the 385,000-sq. ft. Michigan Motion Picture Studios -- the former GM Pontiac plant -- is finally coming to life. County officials have stated the sale for the pr...

A rapidly growing number of big social media and educational video projects has led Pure Imagination, a full-service Batavia-based advertising agency, to seek additional staff. ...

IT'S OFFICIAL! The Fox Network has greenlighted four pilots for series to air this fall including Chicago-set "Ride-Along," that filmed here last winter. It follows a rogue cow...

Almost a year after he started renting cameras in Logan Square, cinematographer Lawrence Daufenbach has expanded his business into a West Loop storefront at 1111 W. Randolph, an...

Chicago may get back in the talk show business, almost one year after the Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos' shows departed for Connecticut. And Springer's former executive produ...

IT TOOK MORE THAN FOUR DAYS for the crew from Boston-based Joseph Finn & Co. auctioneers to organize and tag all the hundreds items owned by Film & Tape Works that will be aucti...

"For kids trying to get something out there and get noticed," producer Brad Kozie has launched Fine Line Sports Media as a sister company to his Fine Line Productions, a Lake Zu...