Lisa Simpson was a long way from Springfield in TVland when she -- in the person of Yeardley Smith -- worked in Holland as executive producer on TicTock Studios' feature, "What'...

Writer/director Jameel Khan's "The Strip," the $1.2 million independent comedy starring Dave Foley that shot here in 2006, is the first Chicago film to sign with Truly Indie, a...

LOCAL MEMBERS OF AICE are being asked for $1,000 each to be used to fund an advertising and PR campaign to combat competition from agency in-house editorial departments. ...

L.A.-based Omar McClinton embarks this month on his first animated feature as writer/director, the $5 million local production "Stork." McClinton, a native Chicagoan, is a ...

The ninth Indie Incubator Film Festival dedicated to short films of every conceivable genre is literally held underground, but that doesn't mean it has a low profile. Las...

TV show veteran Lars Ullberg produced and directed pilot for a reality TV series about energy conservation, shooting in an 84-year-old log lodge on a lake in nearby Michigan, t...

Assistant editor James Dierx of The Whitehouse took home an Avid Media Composer 4 as the grand prize winner of this year's Splice Capades -- the local AICE competition for assi...

The time has come for the annual "State of the Union" ball, a.k.a. the AICP show. Each year, we collectively take the temperature of the ad and production world at this ev...

Trailer and film-to-digital conversion company Filmack marks a milestone this year that few other local industry outfits can match: 90 years in business. That makes it "the...

After spending a year running her own solo rep firm and realizing she missed the collaboration inherent in a creative company, Melissa Thornley happily returned to the postprodu...

Presenters Jon McNaughton and Steve Conrad and nominee Lori Petty are just a few of the high-powered guests expected at the Midwest Independent Film Festival's annual Best of th...

The venue may have changed, but enthusiasm for what's called "the party of the year" -- the 18th annual AICP Midwest Show in Chicago -- is higher than ever. The 2009 AI...

You won't notice what is happening, because it's not discernible, yet this is the most exciting event since the Reel was founded in 2002. As you read this, our webmaster ...

The bitterness Museum of Broadcast Communications president/CEOBruce Dumont felt over ex-governor Rod Blagojevich's broken promise to help fund a new home for the Museum of Bro...

The creation of a three-person, $252,000 Cook County Film Commission looks dim, as several Cook County commissioners say now is not the time to be adding positions to an alread...

The Midwest Independent Film Festival is in the midst of its first-ever donation drive. The drive has raised 25% of its $10,000 goal for the month of November, which would cov...

Producer Elise Jaffe will host a party Wednesday night with food by top local chefs who will have come up with an adult's approach to children's food favorites. The party...

WHO'S NEW: STORY has added director/cameraman Blair Hayes for exclusive spot representation. He was most recently was represented by L.A.-based Form where his credited incl...

ELAINE MADSEN, the Emmy-winning producer, writer, and longtime Chicagoan, appears at the Beverly Arts Center on Nov. 22 with a free screening of her documentary "I Know a Woma...

While it was believed the owner of three Toronto movie studios was also the owner of an $80 million movie studio for Chicago, it turns out that a local group of investors are th...