After the success of their first film "Straightman," the "two Bens," Ben Berkowitz and Ben Redgrave, used their leverage and co-produced the documentaries "Rockets Redglare" and...
Seattle-based Corbis has launch of its worldwide Corbis Broadcast Solutions and named Jennifer Giles one of four new Business Development Managers in the U.S. and Europe. Gil...
STORY'S Laurie Rubin directed a new continuing Ace Hardware campaign that focuses on the store's helpful employees, created by Mars Advertising of Detroit, the new agency for Oa...
HANK NEUBERGER, Chicago's sound guru, is currently in Palm Springs where he will head a 90-member crew, including lots of Chicago guys, to produce a three day webcast of the ...
Midwest Media Group (MMG) has formed a strategic alliance with AZCAR Technologies of Toronto that will expand AZCAR's presence in the Midwest through MMG's sales offices in Arli...
"THE DARK KNIGHT," Warner Bros.' latest "Batman" installment could be "the largest single production ever shot in Chicago," says the CFO's Rich Moskal. It could add at l...
WHO SHE IS: As the effervescent executive director of IFP/Chicago since May 2004, leading the large, local independent film sector, connecting people and opportunities and offer...
Oscar nominee Tod Lending's latest documentary, "Rosevelt's America," has its broadcast premiere in a standalone screening on national PBS April 25. It plays locally at 10:30 p....
MICHAEL SMITH'S debut feature "The Minx" has its local premiere in a DVD release party May 12 at Schuba's Tavern. "The Minx" DVD is due out May 15. The story is about a moder...
Usama Alshaibi's personal Iraq documentary "Nice Bombs" will get a theatrical release in markets including Chicago and New York this summer through Seventh Art Releasing. "...
Two DraftFCB commercials led the 43rd Hugo Awards last week, where Chicago ad agencies dominated the awards, marking a nice change from Chicago's near invisibility in other comp...
Steve and Nefra Johnson of the Johnson Media Group are executive producers of "True Pioneers," a new non-fiction series about unsung African American sports heroes for Fox Sport...
As Split Pillow launches the second volume of its ten-part documentary series "Chicago360" with a series of screenings this spring, the nonprofit film incubator is enjoying its ...
"We're in the midst of the most important transition in the history of the marketing and media industries," states Mark Egmon, president/cofounder of Outer Radius, LLC, a brande...
WHO HE IS: The new GM/EP at Digital Kitchen production house since March 12 is relocating to Chicago from Indianapolis where he's freelanced as a producer for some 18 years. ...
THE CHICAGO LATINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL boasts four Chicago features among the lineup of 59 features and 31 shorts at its 23rd annual fest, April 13-25. Jaime ("Dusk")...
Suree Towfighnia first visited the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in August, 2002 to film Alex White Plume's hemp harvest for her documentary "Standing Silent Nat...
Only a few weeks into her video blog debut, "Citizen Kate" has made waves. The website was included on Jeff Jarvis' YouTube Prezvid site, assuring her a following of millions o...
After a decade-long business partnership, I-Cubed editor/effects artist Arturo Cubacub and engineer Mark Adler are splitting up and going their separate ways probably around May...
Chicago-headquartered ProActive Inc., a strategic design and face-to-face marketing events firm, was purchased this week by Dallas-based Freeman, a 26-city, a full-service resou...
