Early last April, Malachi Leopold of Left Brain/Right Brain Productions departed for the Sudan to shoot a short documentary about the reunion of Kuek Garang, one of 27,000 "lost...

Young, aspiring agency creatives get a golden opportunity to show their stuff to a Who's Who of Chicago advertising creative executives and recruiters at Portfolio Night 8 (PN8)...

EQUIPMENT SALES PRO PETE DEBENNY and four other former Midwest Media Group salesmen moved to Burbank, California-based VTP, Inc., to expand the 30-year old reseller into fer...

Director Mark Klein's thriving tabletop company, MK Films, is the latest local production house to become a signatory of Studio Mechanics Local 476. The agreement was signed...

At a Wednesday morning meeting of the school's 450 students, staff and teachers, president/CEO Howard Tullman and academic dean Paula Froehle announced that the school is now T...

The Chicago comedy short, "Campus Cops," will be in the right place when it screens among the 70 selections at the L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival April 15-18 -- the largest event o...

The Film Unit of Teamsters Local 727 hit a momentous historical milestone March 10 when it admitted -- are you ready for this? -- its very first female member in its 70 year his...

SALVADOR ROMELLO BARCENA'S supernatural thriller/action drama, "Fallen Souls," has its world premiere April 16 at the Portage Theater. The two hour film, described by Barcen...

An audience of more than 35,000 is expected to attend the 16th Chicago Latino International Film Festival, April 16-29, called "the largest, oldest and best Latino film festival...

Two screenwriting gurus are coming to Chicago within the next two weeks, under the auspices of Linda Frothingham's ChicagoHollywood.com, whose mission is to share the trade secr...

Executive producer David Leonardis has rounded up a diverse group of Chicagoans with celebrity status to discuss wide-ranging topics on his upcoming TV series, bowed Tuesday on ...

A NEW CHIEF CREATIVE FOR DDB after a two year search appears to be Ewan Paterson, 42, ECD at London's Cemmow Horby Inge & Partners. He will join the agency in June at...

Recording artist Levi Kreis and Sundance filmmaker Davidson Cole combined talents to produce a music video that achieved the #1 Most Viewed rank on MTVmusic.com last week. Kre...

Singer/songwriter and recording icon Robyn Hitchcock performs "Ordinary Millionaire" co-written by guitarist Johnny Marr (The Smiths/Modest Mouse) from the forthcoming Robyn Hit...

One way to build an indigenous film industry is to educate people who can help make it happen. In Chicago that would be the folks on LaSalle Street. In Michigan, it's the ...

First-time filmmaker Jennifer Burns' feature-length doc will be the only Illinois-made film to screen at EbertFest, April 21-25 in the great Illinois heartland at Champaign. ...

FILMMAKERS JON SISKEL AND GREG JACOBS won the top prize at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival and an additional $5,000 cash prize for their feature doc, "Louder Than...

"ARE YOU THE ONE?" is the question the State of Illinois is asking in a cross-platform campaign to alert men to get tested to combat the spread of HIV. The campaign, consis...

GARY, INDIANA WILL DOUBLE for the Urkaine in "Transformers 3," which is a welcome twist as all too many times European cities are passed off as U.S. locales, in pre-shoots Apr...

A few weeks ago I was surprised by a phone call -- and not his usual terse Email -- from Michael Kutza, the founder and artistic director of the Chicago International Film Fest...