DEBBIE BECK RETIRED from the Chicago Film Office last week without fanfare, after a remarkable and dedicated 28 years serving the film community. "Debbie's warm, unaffe...
AFTER A REMARKABLE 28 YEARS, DEBBIE BECK retired Friday from the Chicago Film Office without fanfare. She had joined in June, 1980 a scant three months after the office...
Business has never been better for HMS Media, the 20-year-old company that specializes in performance art video. "The economy has had so much fluctuation, but if anybody ever n...
Fortunately for film lovers, Chicago abounds with festivals for every taste while giving filmmakers fresh opportunities to showcase their work and make a name for themselves. ...
With recapitalization recently completed, full-service commercial post house Avenue plans to gear up and aggressively move into the areas of internet content and spot production...
Forty-three experts will bring the future of new media in all its forms into the present for the 1,500 attendees expected to attend the Sept. 15-16 Chicago New Media Summit at t...
Siskel/Jacobs' "real time" recreation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center is so groundbreaking that the History Channel will air it without commercial interr...
Three Illinois state legislators, who have been champions of the Illinois filmmakers tax incentives since the beginning, will be honored at a special reception hosted by the boa...
Lynn Steadman has a busy two months ahead of her. The newly named interim executive director of the Independent Feature Project/Chicago is working on two big, important and almo...
THE PRESSURE IS OFF for another six months so the actors' unions and the ad industry can hammer out a mutually satisfactory Commercials Contract. SAG, AFTRA and adverti...
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...
