What started out as a generous, from-the-heart gesture in 1995, to help the family of an editor who died suddenly, has become one of the summer's most anticipated events. The...

Robert DeNiro in Chicago this fall? Possibly, since Tribeca Enterprises of New York, partner in Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy of Chicago, will be IFP/Chicago's honoree ...

Floyd Webb was an 11-year-old aspiring martial artist when he first met John "Count Dante" Keehan at the first World Karate Tournament that Keehan organized at the Chicago Colis...

RICHARD YELLAND of Dictionary Films, produced a 22-minute documentary "Floating: The Nathan Gocke Story." It details Gocke's 2008 surfing accident that left him paralyzed from t...

Musician Joe Losurdo is producing his first narrative feature, which offers a different take to the one he portrayed in his 2009 documentary, "You Weren't There: A History of C...

ONE AT OPTIMUS for the fourth year is the official partner of the Pitchfork Music Festival, showcasing more than 40 of the best independent bands and artists at Union Park Jul...

STEVEN SODERBERGH is making Chicago one of the dozen globe-spanning locations in his upcoming 3D action-thriller, "Contagion." What looks to be a blockbuster starts filming i...

VINCE LAWRENCE'S Slang Music has added another service -- creating iPhone apps under a new company, iLL Concepts, LLC, with partners Thomas Beckmann and Jack Eisenberg. First ...

"1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim," a video adapted by Anida Yoeu Ali from her own performance and poem, not only won the $20,000 grand prize but also the $5,000 music video/...

Possibly the first comedy to shoot anywhere in stereoscopic 3D will be directed by Hollywood executive turned Columbia College professor this July in Chicago. Kevin Cooper ma...

Timing really is everything. Consider: Freelance colorist Tom Rovak attended Foundation Post's recent S3D event and met up with president Samantha Hart, who had been consideri...

VINCE LAWRENCE'S Slang Music has added another service -- creating iPhone apps under a new company, iLL Concepts, LLC, with partners Thomas Beckmann and Jack Eisenberg. First ...

The City of Allen Park is fast becoming a film mecca in southeast Michigan. The Center for Film Studies is moving there from Madison Heights to a developing studio center on So...

As 12,000 members of Lions Club International converge in Sydney, Australia for their annual convention June 28-July 2, they're seeing a massive and elaborate 100x21-ft. project...

Write, shoot and edit a film in 48 hours is the sixth annual challenge made to Chicago filmmakers by the 48 Hour Film Project, to start Aug. 13 and deliver a finished film by Au...

GINA FONTANINI, a film composer and music supervisor who worked at Studio Chicago/Music Industry Workshop, is making her directorial debut with the feature "Follow the Leader," ...

Filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary, "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within," gets a theatrical release from New York-based Oscilloscope Laboratories this fall and a broadcast on ...

With her June 30 retirement nearing, Michigan Film Office, Janet Lockwood can finally reveal her secret. Although she's been the face of Michigan film for 19 years -- and ...

Year-old commercial and creative production company, Elkhorn Entertainment, shoots a satirical comedy pilot, "Capital Dog," as its first TV project July 10-11. "The heart...

A remark made by Leo Burnett executive director Vincent Geraghty, producer of the recent Samsung 3D TV commercial, and reported online, brought attention to 3D stereoscopic work...