RIVET PRESIDENT YVONNE FURTH announced she will retire from the agency Aug. 31 after 26 years with Draft/Chicago, Rivet's parent company. Lor Gold, also from Draft who for...
A spot campaign from a Milwaukee agency officially launched Chicago's first independent digital intermediate service?No Lo Digital Film, located in a lofty art gallery in River ...
JOE SWANBERG and FRANK V. ROSS are among the filmmakers featured in the IFC Center's two-week series "The New Talkies: Generation DIY," running Aug. 22 to Sept. 4 at the histori...
Cutters' Christopher Gotschall edited the three Time Warner Cable services commercials that won a record total of 10 Silver Telly Awards for agency Mobium Creative Group. The...
WHO SHE IS: Makeup artist and talent coordinator Kathy Durkin teamed with photographer Markus Giolas' Real Talent agency two years ago this month. WHAT IT IS: Growing at 50 ...
Mark Ohlsen's LRS, Chicago's largest audio studio specializing in foreign languages, has a roster of 265 foreign-speaking voiceovers, who can deliver 30 different languages?from...
Considered one of the biggest and best cultural events of the year, the 13th annual Black Harvest International Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center will run virtually the en...
Running on a pledge to reinvigorate the Illinois Production Alliance and expand its activities to a larger constituency, film and television producer Sandy Gordon was unanimousl...
RIVET PRESIDENT YVONNE FURTH announced she will retire from the agency Aug. 31 after 26 years with Draft/Chicago, Rivet's parent company. Lor Gold, also from Draft who fo...
SCOTT SMITH of Fulton Market Films, formerly a creative director at Leo Burnett and Element 79, is in preproduction on his first feature, "INK," slated to begin in October. Cas...
Like many a man with a vision of how a company should be grown, Archie Fletcher disagreed with the Texas-based owners of the company he was running in Skokie. When it became ...
Music Box Theatre owner William Schopf has rapidly emerged as one of Chicago's biggest players in the national film distribution business. Schopf's new venture, Music Box Fil...
This week, Paul Holtz' Class on Demand will release two must-have training DVDs, bringing to 103 the number of different software and hardware tutorials COD has produced since 2...
Israeli composer/guitarist/singer David Broza, barely known in the U.S. compared to his international superstar status, headlines a spectacular concert airing on PBS in December...
OPRAH'S AUDIENCE will soon be able to leave the studio and walk across the street to her new fashion boutique at 57 N. Carpenter. The 4,500-sq. ft. store is under constructi...
WHO HE IS: Bronx native Fred Keller was hired by Filmworkers' Reid Brody in April of last year as fresh new talent to match a new facility upgrade. WHAT HE DOES: Operates on...
CHICAGO CINE TECH, a home grown expo for visual media pros set for Sept. 27-29, will focus on new digital technology, its applications and content especially for emerging media...
JEFF GARLIN'S "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With," based on his one-man Second City show, set in Chicago and many of the exteriors and interiors shot here and some in L.A., gets...
WHO HE IS: Patrick Friel, since 1996 the program director of 34-year old Chicago Filmmakers. WHAT HE DOES: He coordinates nine programs a year with his only co-worker, exec...
Brian Reed's BAM Studios celebrates its seventh anniversary of business this month, which also marks the completion of a year-long Harley-Davidson music project. The ever-ch...
