One of Chicago's claims to Oscar fame is the fact that the golden statuettes are made here. But a lesser-known Oscar connection is that the Chicago International Children's Fil...

Thieves broke into the van of Saint Motel while the emerging indie-pop band from L.A. was taping an in-studio performance at JBTV, during their three week tour of the U.S. ...

THE PANAMERA, Porsche's first four-seat sports car, is being introduced this month with a "Welcome to the Family" campaign from Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago, which includes TV, webs...

Halloween and Atomic Pictures' annual party, to be held Oct. 31, go together like Freddy Kruger and Elm Street. What started 24 years ago as a fun, costume Halloween party ...

When producer Laura Szymber met writer/director Brad DeMarea at a coffee shop a year ago to read the script he wanted to make, she was immediately sold on it. "I felt his writin...

A band of brothers, allied as Wensel/Mitten Productions, are producing their third multi-layered documentary on hunting whitetail deer with bows and arrows in the wilds of Manit...

Bob Hudgins, the well liked and effective former IFO deputy film commissioner who heads the Austin, Texas office, was publicly approving of the forthcoming transfer of the Dalla...

Good news for filmmaker Beverly Price came twice within the space of a week, when she learned she had been nominated for two Emmys and that her labor-of-love documentary had be...

Mark Hogan was unanimously elected president of the Illinois Production Alliance following the surprise resignation of Jeff Crabtree, who announced he had joined Gov. Quinn's s...

A year ago August, former Avenue Edit editor Chris Segich and director Seth Henriksen set out to find space for their new company, where they could combine Henriksen's productio...

COMEDIAN TOM DRESSEN will MC the Oct. 27 invitation-only NBC premiere of the TV special, "The Heart of Hollywood: The Chicago Link," shot by RDS at the recent Sweet Home Illin...

Tony Izzo, a film pioneer who ascended from film lab intern to one of the giants in the postproduction business, died from cancer complications Sept. 27 at Hinsdale Hospital, wi...

Executive producer Marsie Wallach started out helping her former boss, Joe Sedelmaier, find distribution for his short film and ended up shooting a revealing documentary about t...

Chicago/Midwest TV Academy members heard 266 Emmy nominations announced last week at Lawry's The Prime Rib last week, a lengthy list of people who excelled on programs that aire...

JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office's diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home afte...

FOUNDATION CONTENT is in the process of adding its first state-of-the-art sound design and mixing studio to its Streeterville facilities. Staff audio engineer Ryan Prybil is d...

Ellen Fox, who is now the co-host with Brett Erlich of "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" on Current TV, learned a lot from her years here in Chicago. The personal initiative that Fo...

Grand Rapids appears to be the newest indie film center as three indie features will start rolling next month and two others are planned to follow. First up Nov. 28 is "Sleep...

Usama Alshaibi, who made the acclaimed feature-length doc "Nice Bombs," about his native Iraq, is the recipient of the first Kartemquin Films' Diversity Fellowship. Alshaibi,...

The formation of a Cook County Film Commission (CCFC) is expected to be voted into law by the Cook County Board of Commissioners by mid-November, and will be open for business ...