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 ...

THE RADIO HALL OF FAME induction of controversial conservative broadcaster Dr. James Dobson of "Focus on the Family" stays, regardless of protests to the contrary by gay ...

Undaunted by advertising's tough stretch, sound designer/mixer Jamie Vanadia feels "the timing is perfect" for the opening of his new audio post house, NoiseFloor. "We can ...

Agency creative Larry Ziegelman's romantic comedy short, "Check, Please," based on a family incident, won the Illinois Film Office's first Shortcuts short film contest. IFO ...

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Chicago Underground Film Festival and its first year under the aegis of IFP. To underscore the artistic merger, IFP's Filmmakers Summ...

Because helping filmmakers has always been his credo, Man-Sung Son will give his clientele a worthwhile gift in celebration of SMS Productions' 25th anniversary. The gift: A ...

After seven years at 1400 W. Hubbard St., Gene Cosentino moved his X-Ray productions downtown, across the hall, in fact, from Bosco Productions' fifth floor expanded facility a...

"The perfect storm, the convergence of negative factors," as Essanay's Wayne Kubacki puts it, has created the worst year of commercial business since the SAG strike and dot com...

It wouldn't quite be accurate to say that the film industry benefited from the Congressional economic bailout approved last week. After all, extension of the film and televis...

DVD LABEL CINEMA OBSCURA releases titles this week from two local filmmakers and a third from a Texan whose film had its world premiere at the 2007 Lake County Film Festival. ...

"DuMONT'S HALL OF SHAME" headlined an expensive, full-page Tribune ad last week, protesting the induction of far-right broadcaster James Dobson of "Focus on the Family" into...

ALWAYS BUSY GEORGE ELDER of Luminair wrapped the Chicago shoot for the seventh season of "Mexico: One Plate at a Time." The half-hour TV shows are shot in Chicago at t...