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...

After three months of negotiations, the Joint SAG-AFTRA National Board on Saturday unanimously voted to approve the new three-year television commercials contract, which provid...

Sam Fishkin's audio post Mix Kitchen is having a growth spurt in agency spots delivered via new media, serving up a smorgasbord of interactive and mobile sound for major adverti...

Michigan's film industry took a giant step forward with Los Angeles-based Unity Studios launching a $146-million state-of-the-art production studio in Allen Park, a Detroit sub...

A new design studio, mr. moqo, headed by graphic designer Robert von Bjal, has opened in shared space with Hootenanny and fxphd, where he will become part of the collaboration a...

"The sky's the limit for video production right now," claims Liquidus Media's Kirk Davis. "And we're giving advertisers the ability to put video just about anywhere it will go....

In the TV world of head-spinning change, it's rare when a show can sustain itself, night after night, for a quarter of a century, as WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" has done. In ...

Evanston isn't known as a hotbed of feature work, but Studiomedia Recording, located in the suburb's picturesque downtown area, snagged recent Hollywood gigs from directors Haro...

With 10 West Studios up and running in West Michigan, the state currently has two stage facilities ? the other being Grace & Wild ? and a third, the $70 million Motown Motion P...