Attention Oliver Stone and Michael Moore! Composer/producer David Steele of Chez Groove has a prize-winning song he wants you to hear ? and maybe use it in the films you plan ...

SARAH PALIN SHOWS GOOD TASTE in her choice of movie faves. Interviewed by "Access Hollywood's" Billy Bush, Palin dissed "celebrity-dom endorsements" of candidates as not re...

THANKS TO THE TRIBUNE for giving the film industry a huge boost with its recent strong editorial supporting a 30% hike in the filmmakers tax credit. The critical incent...

Chicago studio Popcorn Island 's disturbing trailer will front the online buzz campaign for Stephen King's new short story collection, "Just After Sunset". The accolade is al...

Developing an interactive web series is currently the goal of many Midwest producers, but delivering a profitable hit is proving elusive. Malachi Leopold, president of Left...

Cameraman Joseph Tolitano has had a busy year. He spent the summer shooting a PBS series about a horse whisperer, he and his wife welcomed twins in September, and he started h...

In response to increasing client calls for emergency and after hours digital services, Global Video has added a third shift and extra staff to provide 20-hours of non-stop serv...

Writer Colin Costello and director Lloyd Stein's short film, incorporating the iconic Ford Mustang in a storyline, won a $5,000 preliminary prize from the Ford Mustang/Filmaka ...

The 500 camera crews of all sizes from all over the world that converged on Tuesday night in Grant Park for the Obama rally gave the film community a much needed huge financial...

COLONIE, A NEW EDITING BOUTIQUE, has been formed by four former Avenue Edit veterans: Producer Mary Rieger and editors Brian Stepanic, Bob Ackerman and Joe Clear, all high...

You don't know it yet, but pretty soon you're going to be watching your next movie on YouTube. What does this mean for the independent filmmaker? According to panelists of...

Avenue Edit is the latest unfortunate victim of an industry undergoing such crushing change that only those with a high tolerance for challenge and reinvention seem to survive. ...

In early September, Avenue Edit owner/CEO Jonathan Turk announced the company would be refinanced by a New York investment firm in order to expand into other services. The dea...

A SURFEIT OF ADVERTISING RICHES comes to Chicago in late November in the form of two hours worth of the world's best commercials from two famous New York international compet...

TABLETOP SHOOTER MICHAEL AZZARITI of Black Bag Films has built a 2,500 sq. ft. HD production studio with a commercial kitchen, on the old horse farm he owns in East Dundee. ...

UIC professor and two-time Independent Spirit Award nominee Jennifer Montgomery's "Deliver," is one 25 local films featured in the Chicago Underground Film Festival Oct. 29-Nov....

Cash, script consultations, submissions to L.A. agents and managers are some of the great prizes being offered by the Chicago Screenwriting Network's first screenwriting contest...

You'd think that out of 256 nominations in 57 categories for the recent 50th Annual Emmy Awards the odds might favor non-station produced shows. But that didn't happen. Only...

SHARON GLESS stars in director Wendy Jo Carlton's debut feature, "Hannah Free," adapted by two-time Jeff winner Claudia Allen from Allen's own play. The low-budget period p...

Cameraman/DP Andy Sparaco went to New Orleans more than two years ago for work, shortly after Louisiana's 25%-plus Investor Tax Credit brought a flood of entertainment projects ...