Chicago ad agencies have been increasingly and conspicously MIA in national trade publications. Either agency PR departments are out for coffee, or they are non-existent.
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WHO SHE IS: A freelace producer and postproducer of commercials and long-form films for 15 years, Sandra Gordon is president of the volunteer Illinois Production Alliance....
The IFO's Megan Vidis and Film Wisconsin's Scott Robbe will lead a workshop on ways to take advantage of their respective states' filmmaker incentives Jan. 4 at Fletcher Chicag...
BRIAN JUN'S dramatic feature "Steel City" was named Best of the Midwest at the Midwest Independent Film Festival last week at Century Centre Cinema before an SRO house. Othe...
Non-profit production incubator Split Pillow will open its seventh season next year with its highest profile film to-date, playwright Stephen Cone's "The Christians," now in pos...
Back in the early ?90s, video artist Brian Dressel was one of the key players in the Chicago rave party scene. Through his work with video effects design OVT Visuals, Dresse...
Unlike his jobs with definite deadlines, producer and composer John Ovnik's off and on task for the past 2.5 years has been working on a high profile album, an unfinished sympho...
On Dian Sourelis' Christmas wish list are such non-traditional items as pens, markers, paint, and collage materials such as toothpicks, buttons, feathers, carpet square and Chri...
It was business as usual Dec. 12 for ARU's longtime sound engineers Don Arbuckle and Mark Zeboski. The difference this day was that they were no longer ARU employees, having be...
ACTOR MATT DILLON will portray Leonard Chess, the legendary founder of the South Side Chicago blues label Chess Records, in Sony/BMG Film's "Cadillac Records." Writt...
BRIAN JUN'S dramatic feature "Steel City" was named Best of the Midwest at the Midwest Independent Film Festival last week at Century Centre Cinema before an SRO house. Othe...
Todd Haynes' fractured Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There," now in theatres, leads the nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards. Haynes talked with the audience after a preview s...
One day in the mid-?90s, ace table top director Peter Elliott gathered his three key staffers?assistant director, gaffer and special effects rigger?into his office and told them...
FOUR CHICAGO EMMY AWARDS went to HMS Media's critically acclaimed "Jump Rhythm Jazz Project: Getting There," the only independent production amid the hundreds of Emmy nominatio...
PREQUEL: Star Farm Productions' flagship property, "Edgar & Ellen" cartoon series, is big business, supported by books, animated TV and an online community. "Trick or Twins...
One fully local feature made in Chicago and one with ties to Chicago are in the non-competitive Premieres section of the Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 17-27, still the top launch...
It's rare that the subjects of a film?in this case a documentary?are directly involved in the film's sales. But having StreetWise vendors sell DVD copies of "StreetWise: The ...
Veteran editors Jeff Evenson and Ed Pickart have merged their talents and resources in Motion Post that delivers post services "where you want it, and when you need it," they sa...
PATRICK SWAYZE stars as an unorthodox but effective FBI agent who trains a new na?ve young partner (Travis Fimmel) while being pursued by an Internal Affairs team in in "The Be...
Oscar-nominated Bill Siegel, who co-directed and produced "The Weather Underground," will teach Chicago Filmmakers' most popular class, "Developing the Documentary," during its...
