Aletha Noonan built her Chicago Greenscreen Studios last November as a place where she could produce her unique children's videos. Now that production is humming at a steady pa...
The long-overdue passage of the 2008 Illinois Film Tax Credit?now including talk shows that spend $5 million in production, like Oprah and Jerry Springer?should be a done deal ...
WILLIAM FORSYTE leads a slate of familiar and sometimes sinister character actors in producer-director Scott Prestin's crime thriller, "The Chicago Blues," slated to shoot in l...
Project Accessible Hollywood takes place in Chicago all this week. Its ambitious aim is to engage everyday people from all walks of life, who have a story to tell through a dig...
Award-winning Tribune columnist Rick Kogan claims "pure joy" has kept him inspired to host Cable 25's monthly "Conversations with Extraordinary People," starting his fifth year...
Producers Christine O'Malley ("Wordplay") and Jim Czarnecki, ("Fahrenheit 9/11"), whose controversial new docs were Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominees, are among 12 experts at ...
Filmmaker Christopher Coppola's unique digital media PAH-FEST is coming to Chicago for a full week, March 22-30. It's not for professionals or film students, but read on. Non...
"Spy Kids'" Alexa Vega performs one of her first grownup roles in L.A.-based Windward Entertainment's low-budget film, which shoots here March 24-28. Windward's Evanston-ba...
Staunch union organizer/field representative Jay Riggs of the Motion Pictures Editors Guild 700 wants to "regenerate the local editorial scene" by signing many new editors to t...
THE GOOD NEWS is that the Illinois Filmmakers Tax Credit has actually, finally, honestly passed the state Senate!! Now it's due to go back to the House for final passage, l...
For the first time and exclusively in Chicago, a local company offers the same kind of copy protection to non-theatrical producers with short order needs that big studios use ...
Fletcher Chicago scores another first in the Midwest with the addition of the 3-Perforation film camera that gives users 35mm quality for 16mm prices. Originated for shooti...
Doc specialist Lillian Benson speaks to the Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group about how she approaches the mountain of doc footages and pares it down to compelling stories using...
Two videos?long on artistry and subtle on sell?were created by Digital Kitchen for Target stores for display on the world's first outdoor digital arts gallery, in the heart of ...
Kate McClanaghan took the leap. After 18 years producing, casting and teaching in Chicago, she decided to expand her operations to the West Coast. Last month, she opened a...
Paul Leuer's debut feature comedy, "Eden Court," had its world premiere as the opening night film of the 18th Annual Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California Feb. 27. ...
TicTock Studios of Holland, Michigan is en route to becoming Michigan's leading production company, with a feature by a major screenwriter in the works, and the addition of a to...
Filmmaker Mark Vadik's first feature, a romantic comedy, "Desertion," starring Kim Rhodes ("Another World") has begun production in Chicago and suburbs, directed by Francine So...
Could Ebay become the cyber age agent for screenplay writers? Filmmaker Nathyn Masters was willing to give it a try. "Trying to sell via eBay is a way to reach a broader...
HOWARD TULLMAN, FLASHPOINT ACADEMY'S CEO, received Northwestern Law School's Distinguished Entprepreneur Award, at the Law School's Small Business Opportunity Conference March ...
