Dave McGowan's Ravenswood Media made a commitment in 2000 to concentrate on producing natural history and conservation programs and "it's finally paying off," he says. The co...

A TEAM HEADS FOR DURBIN, SOUTH AFRICA to shoot a feature-length documentary in HD about a competitor in the 56-mile ultra Comrades Marathon through the rugged terrain of Afric...

The half-built 60,000-sq. ft. Museum of Broadcast Communications' building at Kinzie and State was given a new lease on life when Pepper Construction Co.'s foreclosure lawsuit a...

Actors' Equity Association is putting its reserve money into Chicago. They've purchased a four-story building at 557 W. Randolph St. Yes, the New York based union has purchased ...

IFO DIRECTOR BETSY STEINBERG is optimistic that Chicago will enjoy "a very busy summer" of Hollywood entertainment projects, based on the calls the offices has been fielding ...

Former Illinois Film Office deputy director Megan Vidis was elected president of the 200 member Women in Film and 13 women were elected to the board, at its annual meeting last ...

HD EXPO-Createasphere's fifth consecutive year in Chicago June 8-11 at Navy Pier brings the Midwest premiere of all the hottest NAB products from 40 leading companies presenting...

ZACUTO'S JENS BOGEHEGN, Jenny Lynn and Steve Weiss accept DV Magazine's 2009 Black Diamond Award for its Zwing-Away adapter, recognized as one of the 20 best new products introd...

When it comes to TV commercial awards shows, the number of Chicago winners is usually in the low single digits, and those winners tend to be the big, familiar names. While th...

Malachi Leopold of Left Brain, Right Brain Productions and three-man crew departed O'Hare in a snowstorm April 5 to spend a month in Sudan filming the reunion of a Lost Boy of S...

Using the Red camera for commercials came about so quickly in Chicago that editors were caught off-guard as to the complicated processing needs of its large files. In respon...

"THE MERRY GENTLEMEN," the all-Chicago feature that was shot here in 2007, is being distributed theatrically by Samuel Goldwyn Co. May 1 in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles a...

The cast and crew of "The Chaos Experiment," an eco-terrorist thriller that filmed in Grand Rapids' last September for a $7 million budget, will be the first to see it May 5 at...

Chicago's two non-fiction heavyweights -- Kartemquin Films' Gordon Quinn and Media Process Group's Bob Hercules -? are currently filming a feature-length documentary, to air on ...

Filmmakers Ines Sommer and Kathy Berger say the films they've lined up for their May 1-3 Talking Films Festival are expected to draw more than 1,000 movie fans from the North Sh...

After running a thriving ad agency in stealth mode for nearly five years, founder Otis Gibson felt it was time to introduce GERTRUDE to the community. Why the silence, not ev...

Now in its 21st year, the DePaul Theatre School Awards for Excellence in the Arts will be presented to actors Michael Shannon and Angela Bassett and director and alum Dennis Du...

"Little Green Men," a timely TV series about living green in U.S. cities, appropriately bows on Earth Day, April 22 over WYCC-Ch. 20 analog and Ch. 21 digital. The six-part, ...

KARTEMQUIN FILMS' LONG RANGE PLANS under executive director Justine Nagan are taking shape with two new additions. Martin Perdoux is the new Director of Development, ...

The Wisconsin legislature's Joint Finance Committee is still weeks away from discussing the commerce portion of Gov. Jim Doyle's proposed budget, but the governor and his fello...