Plucked from more than 200 entries, the work of seven local filmmakers will be screened at the Chicago International Film Festival's specially-cultivated, "Home Grown Shorts" pr...
Among the Illinois facts that surprised guests at the IFO Producers Breakfast in L.A. last week was the availability of a four-lane, 2.9 mile, virtually unused strip of highway ...
Fast on the heels of its smashingly successful fund-raising gala comes IFP/Chicago's 16th annual Midwest Filmmakers Summit the weekend of Oct. 19. "We're just recovering from...
IT'S A RARE THING when an employer recommends one of his star staffers to another company. But that's what Fletcher Chicago's Tom Fletcher did when Canon USA marketing exec...
Evanston native Jeffrey Lieber, the creator of the extraordinary TV hit "Lost," was fired by ABC after he wrote the pilot for "Lost's" original series. He's never been to H...
Sean Hannity, co-host of Fox News' nightly "Hannity & Colmes" will host the live, one-hour presentation of the 2007 National Radio Hall of Fame. The Nov. 3 annual induction o...
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED RED CAMERA debuts in Chicago Wednesday at an SRO demo at RDS given by RDS' Mitch Apley and Optimus' Craig Leffel answering the question: Does the 4K ...
The world spotlight will shine on Chicago Oct. 4 when the 43rd Chicago International Film Festival?the longest running film festival in North America?opens for a two week run. ...
On March 10, 2006, award-winning filmmaker Esa? Mel?ndez took a camera to the streets of Chicago to document 500,000 people protesting HR 4437, the proposed Border Protection An...
WHO THEY ARE: Founders of two-year-old, Evanston-based Stone Face Productions, director John Champion and writer Jeff Kehe produce the webTV "BIF! BAM! POW! WOW!" at www.bifbamp...
When talent maven Patricia Stevens was going to marry used car mogul Mad Man Muntz, she needed someone to take over her Saturday night TV show while she was off on her honeymoon...
Media Process Group's Bob Hercules is back from two whirlwind weeks in South Africa where he directed success stories showing how Opportunity International's microfinancing help...
"LEVERAGE," a TV pilot from Dean Devlin's TNT Entertainment goes into production Oct. 6-15 in Chicago, having won out over Portland, Vancouver and Montreal, thanks to the abund...
Chicago took the lead in a recent story by Nicole Rivard in New York-based Shoot covering the combined impact of incentives in Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan and emerging new...
WHO HE IS: Dan Lombardi is the owner of Grand and Noble Productions, purchased July 1 from company founder/producer Thea Flaum. WHAT HE DOES: Ensures their staff of six keep...
ACTOR BRONSON PINCHOT, who has appeared in nearly 75 shows and movies, plays the title role in "Mr. Art Critic," being produced by Rich Brauer of Brauer Productions of T...
The groundbreaking ballet, "Billy Sunday," created by Chicago icon choreographer Ruth Page, is the newest dance television production from HMS Media. Debuting Sept. 16 on C...
SMS Productions' Man Sung Son, a 40-year veteran cinematographer and camera expert, believes that "no matter how long you've been in the business you always learn something." ...
"MISS HORRORFEST 2007" is being sought in Chicago by O'Connor Casting as part of a nationwide search for a spokesperson to represent After Dark Films. Auditions will be...
Zacuto USA's Illinois-made modular camera rigging accessories have gone national with an exclusive dealership arrangement with bi-coastal Abel Cine Tech. One of the largest s...
