Zacuto USA has opened a full service showroom to display and demonstrate Panasonic and Sony cameras outfitted with Zacuto accessories as part of its expanded River North space. ...
The filmmakers behind the locally-shot workplace comedy, "The Promotion," are hoping that the film's Sept. 2 DVD release will reach an audience that failed to turn out to the Ju...
SINCE MICHAEL KUTZA began the Chicago International Film Festival as the first competitive film festival in North America in 1964, the local festival scene has steadily grown i...
Director Patrick Creadon and producer Christine O'Malley present their sobering expos? on the U.S. national debt, "I.O.U.S.A." in an unprecedented HD satellite broadcast to 350-...
After nearly 20 years living and working in Los Angeles, actor/filmmaker Nick Celozzi moved back to the Chicago area last week, citing Chicago as a better place to live and rais...
An international campaign for local Navteq, which powers Google Maps and supplies technology to many popular GPS production, has pushed three-year-old Big Teeth Productions int...
Funeral services for longtime sports cameraman Andy Lock of AndyCam, who died from a heart attack Wednesday, will be held Tuesday, Aug. 26 at St. John's Church in Kankakee...
The Second City is getting into the short film content business online, according to Andrew Alexander, Second City's executive producer. "We had been talking about it for at ...
A lot has happened to filmmaker D.P. Carlson since he started shooting his pseudo-doc, "Johnny Dodgeball," with a bunch of junior high school boys back in 2001. He produced a...
There wasn't a whole lot of excitement at this year's Ad:Tech, the big digital marketing conference at Navy Pier last week, headlined by the big guns in advertising, branding, m...
Romani Bros., a small but mighty ad agency run by partners Bernie Pitzel and Denny Hebson since 2003, was acquired by Schafer Condon Carter, a privately held, independent mid-si...
John Vaile thought his buddy had found a sure thing with "Drunk Boat," a coming-of-age film starring John Malkovich and John Goodman. Though his friend, former Chicago Board ...
THE DEBUT SHORT FILM of writer/poet Vignette Nicolle Lammott, Foundation's new media director, produced and directed by Foundation's Anna Patel, landed in the 44th Chicago I...
What started out in 1994 as The Tape Company's annual golf outing for anyone who wanted to hit some balls and share some laughs has evolved into a special friend of post product...
THE BALCONY GOES DARK when the last installment of "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper" airs Aug. 16 over ABC. The two critics resigned from one of the longest-running sho...
JOE MALECKI'S MANY FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES will gather for a memorial service Tuesday, Aug. 5, at Outsider, Inc., 230 E. Ohio St. The studio was graciously provided by director...
You may not have heard of peripatetic art teacher Mark Kistler, but a great many children have, through Kistler's travels across the country teaching kids the fun of drawing and...
"Jubilee Showcase," a gospel music TV show that entertained Chicago audiences for over 20 years, is being reincarnated as an HD documentary series by the son of the original pro...
When Vince Singleton's short won the Chase Legacy Film Challenge announced in New York last Thursday, he says he wasn't as much surprised as relieved, "because I put so much ef...
