Tonight's the night that Zacuto's "Great Camera Shootout 2010," comparing HD DSLR cameras to traditional 35mm, will be seen publicly for the first time at the Midwest Internati...

ESA? MEL?NDEZ' TIMELY DOC, "Immigrant Nation!?The Battle for the Dream" won the audience choice award for best documentary at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, which concluded l...

Some 200 guests are expected Thursday night at Hootenanny's benefit in its spacious River North facility on behalf of Free Spirit Media Focus 2010. The fund-raiser will hel...

"You win some, you lose some" is a philosophy equally applicable to Chicago advertising as it is the city's sports teams. Consider: The little-known Jones Agency in 2007 came...

The pilot for what 20 West Productions hopes will become its second cable series that premiered May 5 on Discovery Health, as part of the network's "Psych Week." The documen...

Plum Productions is converting a 104-year old Edgewater firehouse into the shooting stage and post-production facility Firehouse Studios, which they'll market for rental as wel...

Some years ago, spot editor Yamus (real name Jim Mudra) was working on a PSA spot. The footage involved many children and atmospheres, related his friend and colleague Red Car ...

Filmworkers Club's two four-year old affiliates -- hybrid production studio Vitamin and Lift Motion graphics -- are now one, having been merged under the Vitamin banner and the...

Starting July 4 and filming for seven weeks, director Michael Bay's "Transformers 3" will shoot in Chicago, which along with Moscow, will be "the focus of the big action sequenc...

Headlining IFC/Chicago's Producers Series May 1-2 is Philadelphia filmmaker Lance Weiler, an innovator in, and advocate of transmedia, an extension of storytelling across multip...

JOHN BOROWSKI shoots reenactments this June for his documentary "Carl Panzram" about the early 20th Century serial killer. "Carl Panzram" surveys the childhood abuse Panzra...

A $10,000 grant awarded at South by Southwest is enabling Chicago troupe Lady Parts Comedy to produce their first formal online series. "Up until now we've been operating o...

Brandon Hutchinson took the mid-aughts boom of DIY relationship dramas as a personal challenge in crafting his own debut feature, "How I Killed Mumblecore," which has its theatr...

With a slew of unproduced screenplays and an unpublished novel under her belt, Northwestern professor Kat Falls' first published novel, the teen sci-fi "Dark Life," landed a big...

Eight interesting and offbeat docs and shorts by area filmmakers will screen at Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival, May 6-9, as part of its 23 programs of long and short films...

After a comparatively quiet first quarter, Michigan is looking forward to a tremendous amount of spring and summer activity.It gets off to a high octane start April 18 in Detroi...

After 19 years at the Chicago Film Office -- a tenure five years longer than CFO director Rich Moskal's -- Kathy Byrne leaves for a new job. She joins AFTRA/SAG May 17 as t...

PILOT UPDATES. Networks this week began screening and evaluating 68 pilots that were shot during the first quarter for possible prime-time fall series slots. Here's the rea...

Noted entertainment attorneys, Tom Leavens, Peter Strand and Jerry Glover, also noted for their contributions to non-profit arts organizations, have formed a LaSalle St. law fi...

It's an understatement to say that it was Chicago's night at the 2010 Hugo International Awards for Television Excellence. DDB, Draftfcb and Leo Burnett didn't just win bi...