After a series of near-disasters from the time producer Malachi Leopold left Chicago in a snowstorm April 5, he and his doc subject, Lost Boy of the Sudan Kuek Garang, and a sm...

THE AUDIENCE AWARD for the best documentary went to Fulton Market Films' "Being Bucky," at the recent Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, one of only films so honored out of ...

Any substantial, new advertising account that lands in Chicago these days is a reason for rejoicing and DraftFCB's winning MillerCoors' Miller Lite was reason to break out the,...

Kartemquin Films has won its second prestigious Peabody Award for filmmaker Maria Finitzo's timely documentary, "Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita." Finitizo will a...

Don Pogany and Arturo Cubacub had the honor of taping World War II veterans aboard an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., for the soldiers' first visit to the World War II Memoria...

Call it two legends united for one exciting night Friday in historic Bronzeville. Melvin Van Peebles, the filmmaker who himself made history heralding a new era of African A...

THE NEW FREDDY KRUEGER, who can be seen behind a mask in "Watchmen," will be wearing the iconic glove in the latest iteration of "Nightmare on Elm Street." Jackie Earle ...

Hollywood, and every state with a stake in filmmaking, is hopeful that the SAG negotiating task force update meeting Tuesday with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television P...

For producers of advertising and content creations, John Heinsen wants to be your connection to important internet issues and decisions, such as credits, royalties, education a...

There will be thousands of visual media outlets in the next few years, said "media goddess" Laurie Scheer, talking to filmmakers eager to learn first-hand from this Hollywood ...

The glory days ended Friday for JWT Chicago, once one of Chicago's biggest, most prestigious ad agencies that had been in business here for more than a century. JWT North ...

MALACHI LEOPOLD IS BOUND FOR THE SUDAN, thanks to a $10,000 grant he received in order to make the expenses of the trip. He departs April 5 for a full month of shooting a do...

Thought Equity Motion's recent NCAA March Madness video app for the iPhone is just another example of how the online stock footage company is using new technology to revive vid...

Funeral services were held Monday for electrician/gaffer Peter Donoghue, a 30-year member of Local 476 and cited by Mark Hogan, the local's business manager, as "one of the bes...

Everybody was expecting a revolution, but the advertising contract AFTRA and SAG signed in the early morning hours of April 1 with the Joint Policy Committee of advertising age...

For the past 20 years, "media goddess" Laurie Scheer has been at the forefront of ever-changing Hollywood needs and relaying them to an army of devoted followers through her onl...

Twenty years ago this fall, Roy Skillicorn, who was at the peak of his career as a top print and motion rep, and his friend, director Blair Stribley, whose young commercial comp...

Up in scenic Northwest Michigan, known for its magnificent scenery and summer recreation, a large stage complex has quietly opened in Manistee, a Victorian port city on the shor...

Domain Communications of Carol Stream is off to its "best-ever start to a year" in 2009, which is the full service audio company's 45th year in business, Chicago's oldest contin...

THREE GOLD AURORA 2008 AWARDS for documentaries went to Bitter Jester Creative, a creative content company in Highland Park that's led by CD Nicolas DeGrazia, DP Daniel Kull...