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 ...

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 ...