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...
MJZ, the bicoastal spot house that's won more awards than any other production company, will pick up still another?this one from the 43rd annual Hugo Television Awards. The...
A SLATE OF CURENT AND UPCOMING FEATURES are bringing plenty of spring sunshine are making a lot of people happy campers. As related by Local 476's Mark Hogan, here's...
THE CHICAGO DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL returns in its biennial incarnation with more than 100 docs screening between March 30 and April 8 at eight venues throughout the city. ...
Proponents of the Film Wisconsin incentives bill eager for the incentives to begin July 1, 2007 instead of January, 2008, got a chance to express their views at the Wisconsin le...
According to award-winning producer/writer Jerome Courshon, a Park Forest native living in L.A., "most filmmakers don't know the right strategies and they flounder around trying...
WBBM news anchor and radio journalist Felicia Middlebrooks will screen her powerful, prize-winning 52-minute documentary, "Somebody's Child: The Redemption of Rwanda" March 31, ...
WHO HE IS: Nadav Kurtz, editor at post-production house Cutters since January 2007. He's working with Draft/FCB Chicago on 3 :30 commercial spots to air internationally and dome...
IFP/Chicago will be one of more than 100 service organizations and vendors participating in the fourth annual Creative Chicago Expo on Saturday, April 21. Organizers from the...
Fletcher Chicago is the first camera house in the Midwest to offer rentals of the Arri 416?Arriflex' first new 16mm camera in 30 years when the SR was introduced. The camera,...
The Wisconsin legislature's recalcitrance to regenerate its tax incentives and bring business into that needy state is a mystery, as many states recognize the economic advantag...
JEFF KEHE and JOHN CHAMPION of Evanston-based Stone Face Productions has signed a deal with Orlando-based Transit TV. Transit TV will play Stone Face's DVD review show "DVD...
