Screenwriter Ken Rance, co-writer of the 2009 film "New in Town," starring Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr., will be the celebrity judge who will pick the grand prize winn...

Partners Liz Tate and Jim Annerino's Hootenanny editorial boutique moved into expanded new space in the penthouse at 230 E. Ohio, in unique space originally designed and occupi...

NOT EVERY AICE POST HOUSE apparently is in accord with the national organization's PR/ad strategy to bolster the status of independent post house by laying out the value of i...

All good things must come to an end and Oprah's extraordinary 25 year TV run in Chicago will end on Sept. 9, 2011, according to ABC. Oprah's announcement on her Friday show...

The third time was the charm for John Michaels, who was determined to produce the sponsors opening reel for the annual AICP Show. This year, after three years of trying, his co...

Lisa Simpson was a long way from Springfield in TVland when she -- in the person of Yeardley Smith -- worked in Holland as executive producer on TicTock Studios' feature, "What'...

Writer/director Jameel Khan's "The Strip," the $1.2 million independent comedy starring Dave Foley that shot here in 2006, is the first Chicago film to sign with Truly Indie, a...

LOCAL MEMBERS OF AICE are being asked for $1,000 each to be used to fund an advertising and PR campaign to combat competition from agency in-house editorial departments. ...

L.A.-based Omar McClinton embarks this month on his first animated feature as writer/director, the $5 million local production "Stork." McClinton, a native Chicagoan, is a ...

The ninth Indie Incubator Film Festival dedicated to short films of every conceivable genre is literally held underground, but that doesn't mean it has a low profile. Las...

TV show veteran Lars Ullberg produced and directed pilot for a reality TV series about energy conservation, shooting in an 84-year-old log lodge on a lake in nearby Michigan, t...

Assistant editor James Dierx of The Whitehouse took home an Avid Media Composer 4 as the grand prize winner of this year's Splice Capades -- the local AICE competition for assi...

The time has come for the annual "State of the Union" ball, a.k.a. the AICP show. Each year, we collectively take the temperature of the ad and production world at this ev...

Trailer and film-to-digital conversion company Filmack marks a milestone this year that few other local industry outfits can match: 90 years in business. That makes it "the...

After spending a year running her own solo rep firm and realizing she missed the collaboration inherent in a creative company, Melissa Thornley happily returned to the postprodu...

Presenters Jon McNaughton and Steve Conrad and nominee Lori Petty are just a few of the high-powered guests expected at the Midwest Independent Film Festival's annual Best of th...

The venue may have changed, but enthusiasm for what's called "the party of the year" -- the 18th annual AICP Midwest Show in Chicago -- is higher than ever. The 2009 AI...

You won't notice what is happening, because it's not discernible, yet this is the most exciting event since the Reel was founded in 2002. As you read this, our webmaster ...

The bitterness Museum of Broadcast Communications president/CEOBruce Dumont felt over ex-governor Rod Blagojevich's broken promise to help fund a new home for the Museum of Bro...

The creation of a three-person, $252,000 Cook County Film Commission looks dim, as several Cook County commissioners say now is not the time to be adding positions to an alread...