A trio of large, new mobile production vehicles, built and equipped at a cost of nearly $250,000, has been added to Product Productions' fleet of 12 vehicles that includes grip/...

Albert J. Nader was elated as anyone when the regime of Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. What he could not have known is just what that would mean for his Assyrian Christian ...

Raleigh Michigan Studios, formerly known as the Motown Motion Picture Studios, has obtained the $75.8 million in financing it needs to convert the idled General Motors plant in ...

Anna Kipervaser's On Look Films embarked on the first of multiple trips to Egypt on Aug. 16, attempting to preserve a thousand-year-old Islamic ritual through film, sound record...

PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE in Stamford, Connecticut this week waiting to be admitted to the first live taping of "The Jerry Springer Show," a fixture in Chicago-originated te...

Firebrand South Side pastor Rev. Michael Pfleger is the latest documentary subject for Bob Hercules of Media Process Group, whose prior films tell the stories of then-Senator Ba...

Since its arrival a few months ago, Resolution Digital Studios' new, massive green screen has proven to one of the facility's major assets. The digital compositing backdrop, ...

"Hannah Free," the Chicago-produced indie, had a local sneak peek screening at a sold out Midwest Independent Film Fest event on August 4. At a producer's panel introduced by...

A definite A&E series that starts shooting in October, and a Fox TV pilot that could turn into a locally-shot series, are the first TV shows to shoot here since "The Beast" las...

Julie Koca of Chicago, who gave up an practicing law to write novels and screenplays full-time, is the grand prize winner in the Chicago Screenwriters Network's first annual scr...

EILEEN WILLENBORG WAS BOWLED OVER at the National AFTRA Convention Aug. 8 when she received a super prestigious Gold Card, the union's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for her ...

BEST FILM PRIZE in the 9th annual Chicago 48 Hour Film Project went to Quicklips Productions' "Gazillion Dollar Sausage," conceived, produced and finished in less than 24 hours ...

Before he died on July 16, Assignment Desk owner, Bill Scheer, had stipulated instead of a funeral he wanted a party, "to remember him in the way he loved to live," said his fri...

For the first time in its 12 years of business, Global Video has a new general manager. She is film and duplication veteran Liz Sweeney, who has been with Global Video ...

TOM FLETCHER WAS OVERWHELMED by the helpful and sympathetic responses to the alert he Emailed immediately following the theft of $100,000 worth of Fletcher camera equipment fr...

TYLER JAY, recently with the 2016 Committee, joined Dictionary Films as an executive producer of content. While he was with the 2016 Committee, Jay oversaw the 22 bid film...

TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NAMES in movie criticism -- the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips, and the New York Times' A.O. Scott -- have been teamed in what should be ...

When the debut film of Mallory Sohmer, Pixel Brothers' production manager, premieres on The Documentary Channel Aug. 3, at 9 p.m., it culminates a three year project that began ...

Director Quentin Tarantino will receive a special tribute at the Chicago International Film Festival's 2009 Summer Gala Aug. 18, along with the Chicago premiere screening of Tar...