A year shy of Media Process Group's 25th anniversary, founder Bob Hercules credits his 1989 indie documentary "America's Classic Ballparks" with knocking the MPG success story ...

The celebrity-studded Windy City West party -- a reunion for Chicagoans working in Hollywood -- returns after a four-year absence and Brenda Sexton is again helming the sold-out...

At the 2009 World Tour of New York Festivals Advertising Awards in Chicago last month, Leo Burnett won an impressive 10 World Medals at a gala presentation at the Cultural Cente...

Thanks to a local connection, director John Anderson spent a week in July shooting for Disney English in Shanghai, where the company established its first English-language instr...

"If you're only going to see one film this year, make it ?Bronx Paradise,' by Wayne Gurman," enthuses Geoff Harkness, of the first annual International Hip Hop Film Festival Sep...

ACTOR/PRODUCER TIRF ALEXIUS has expanded his four-year old Driven Entertainment by opening a 1,100-sq. ft. voiceover, music and ADR recording studio in Albany Park. The D...

If you are spending all of your time, money and energy trying to support your old model, you are not investing proper resources into what form your future model might take. ...

Fearful that legislators will cap or kill Michigan's 42% incentives, about 100 film industry workers rallied at the capitol in Lansing Aug. 18, petitioning legislators to keep t...

Cinematographer and Local 600 member, Lawrence Daufenbach, is possibly the youngest owner of an affordable camera rental company which has the hot Red camera as its main focus. ...

DOCUMENTARIAN KEN BURNS comes to Chicago Sept. 16 to speak at a luncheon and presentation for his new book, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," at the Union League Club...

ABEL CINE TECH opened a Midwest sales office and small showroom in Oakbrook Terrace, headed by Kari Hess, and joined by production salesman Gregger Jones, from Abel's New Y...

Hanging in space to tape The Ledge on the Willis Tower Sky Deck was definitely not a gig for acrophobiacs, says Josh Reichlin of 3to1 Studios, whose crew was suspended 103 stori...

It's not retirement for casting director Jane Alderman, but more like a transition back to her theatrical acting roots. The trailblazer who put hundreds of Chicago actors on th...

"Organic Groov," the unique neo soul and spoken word video webisodes, expands into a second venue, "Digital Funtown," which combines in-house productions with user-generated con...

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...