WHO HE IS: He's one of two executive producers at STORY production company, boasting a roster of top directors and producing spots for top agencies around the country. WHAT ...
Radar editor Greg Somerlot's fifth spot for McDonald's Mighty Kids campaign/Leo Burnett widens the spotlight from individual youths to group activities showing the ever-changing...
Having experienced the positive impact HD capture has had on their company, Jeremy Richter wants to be one of the first to utilize the ultra high-def Red One camera. "In one ...
Chicago Cinema Forum is a new group made up of ambitious young cinephiles who aim to bring Chicagoans rare films, along with the chance to talk about them with film scholars in ...
Resolution Digital Studios (RDS) is testing the waters of independent film production. If its first project proves successful, the studio could take the plunge into proprietary ...
Bonny Dolan, artist liaison and executive producer at newly formed Fix, a division of Comma Music, has a job many would kill for. She introduces popular established and up-...
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...
