DIRECTOR BOB EBEL created commercials with "the little people," as he calls them, for Build-A-Bear Workshop?an interactive make-your-own-stuffed animal retail-entertainment exp...
Schaumburg-based Screen Time Images, an 8-year old company that restores classic movies and TV shows, added the U.S.' first and only HD or higher resolution telecine customized ...
Global Video added high definition capability to its menu of video duplication services. They include monitoring and broadcast quality down-conversion from HD to any standard d...
Three times a year, chef Macku Chen of Kaze Sushi, 2032 W. Roscoe, creates a seasonal menu that is utterly mind-blowing. Using seasonal produce and fish that's ripe and in ...
For the second time this year, Optimus displays its collective creative chops in 23 wildly imaginative 30-second "commercials" that will air throughout December on popular cable...
JACK WILSON, long-time active local NATAS member and motivational video producer, will be honored Dec. 3 as the 2005 recipient of NATAS Governors Awards at the 47th Annual Chica...
Devotees of Starbucks on Oak and Rush will have something interesting to watch while they sip their latte grandes: A permanent, multi-screen, HD video art gallery of the storie...
Broadcast and home video distributor Screen Media Pictures has signed to release two Chicago independent features, Bruce Terris' "Dirty Work" and Marisol Torres' "Chicago Boricu...
This year it was a tightrope, next year it's a satellite. Clayton Brown's "Galileo's Grave" follows Paula Froehle's "Up on the Rope" as the recipient of the annual IFP/Chic...
ETTA WORTHINGTON of Fernworks Productions teamed with director Carol Hutchins' Communications Solutions to produce a video now in production for the State Attorney's Office an...
DP MARC MILLER IS IRAQ-BOUND for a month of filming Jake Rademacher's theatrical documentary, "Brothers at War." They received Army permission and clearance Dec. 1 after many ...
Technicolor Digital Cinema announcement of its long-awaited deployment plan for digital cinema will seismically altered the film distribution landscape. The venture intends ...
Ira Glass, creator and host of the ten-year-old nationally syndicated Chicago Public Radio hit "This American Life," is developing a string of film projects, mostly adapted from...
WBBM news radio host Felicia Middlebrooks premiered her debut documentary, "Somebody's Child: The Redemption of Rwanda," in the recent New York International Independent Film & ...
After directing two pictures and writing several scripts for hire, Mark Harris has just seen his first sold script go into production. Co-writer Barry Bowles ("Nothin' 2 Los...
WINNERS OF MWFF'S at the 2005 Best of the Midwest Awards will be unveiled Dec. 6 at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema. Best director nominees are Aaron Himelstein for "Sugar...
Major industry player and Second City alum Harold Ramis built a career as a leading writer, then writer-director of comedies like "Animal House," "Caddyshack," "Ghostbusters" an...
There's a whole new take on the four-day Chicago Motion Graphics Festival coming up in late January. Instead of one venue one night, GMGF will present 40 entries in four locati...
Twenty nine Jeff Awards were spread among 20 productions and 13 theatres at the 37th annual awards ceremony held Nov. 7 at Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place. Congo Squar...
DARREN MARTINEZ and DECLAN RYAN of the non-profit Start Thinking Corporation are in New Orleans shooting the documentary "Hellp" about the efforts of New Orleanians to recover f...
