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...

THE DVD OF DAVIDSON COLE'S DOCUMENTARY "The 95th: The Iron Men of Metz," about General George Patton's World War II infantry division, in which Cole's grandfather Steve Finik ...

Over the 25 years Oprah has broadcast her daily talk show from Chicago, it was inevitable that one day she would move the show to Los Angeles. Apparently that day will arri...

Hollywood actor Casey Siemaszko grew up deeply immersed in Chicago's Polish community, performing with his parents' Polish dance troupe. And Siemaszko's father Konstanty fough...

"All truth passes through three stages," Ky Dickens, a producer for commercial MK Films, says in her documentary "Fish Out of Water." "First it is ridiculed. Second, it is vi...

A memorial service for Barbara Petersen, wife of Dan Moore, DGA Midwest executive director, will be held Sunday at the Luther Memorial Church, 2500 W. Wilson at 5 p.m., precede...

When Cinespace Chicago owner Nick Mirkopoulos brought property 21 years ago on Booth St. in Toronto, the timing coincided with the Canadian government's decision to make film p...

Robert Michael Huffer, the sales and customer service arm of Teletech Video, was "one of those people who brightened your day every time he walked through the door, remembered L...

WITH TIME ON HER HANDS during the SAG strike of 2000, actress Ellie Weingardt began writing a comedy screenplay about an elderly woman who adopts an elderly beagle to ease her...

More than 450 guests crowded Cutters downtown facilities for its first Halloween party, one that assuredly will become an annual event for hosts Cutters, Sol Design, Another Cou...

Chicago-based Glass City Productions is in the midst of filming its third feature, the drama "Separation Anxiety," at locations across northern Ohio, starting with a two-week sh...

Construction is underway to convert a 330,000-sq. ft warehouse into the first of what could be seven to soundstages for Chicago Film Studios, on the 50 acre Ryerson Steel campu...