IF YOU'RE A PRODUCER with what you feel is a dynamite reality show idea, "America's Next Producer," wants to meet you Feb. 24, from noon till 4 p.m. at the Ambassador East Hote...
On Feb. 21 Farhad Arshad, president of fast-growing art film distributor Olive Films, will launch the next phase of his larger vision: eStudio O, a full-service, state-of-the-ar...
Filmworkers Club inaugurated a fiber uplink service that facilitates the real-time delivery of HD commercials and other media to broadcasting destinations across the U.S. The se...
"I was under the impression that I was doing the right thing," Andrew Suh says in the trailer for Iris Shim's documentary "House of Suh." Suh, who was 19 at the time, confess...
THE WEATHER WAS FRIGID, but the feelings were warm as 50 guests said a fond good-bye to former IFO director Brenda Sexton at a party hosted by her friend, Chaz Ebert, at Gibso...
The ability to shoot in cheaper U.S. and overseas locations is cited as the reason for the 3.4% drop in the number of shooting days in Greater Los Angeles during 2006, as com...
CHRIS GARDNER, whose determination to succeed was amazingly chronicled in the movie "Pursuit to Happyness," appears in a Wal-Mart spot celebrating Black History Month. Dir...
With the hope of beating the odds and selling shows to television, Rick Roberts, his Pixel Brothers producing partners, and entertainment attorney Linda Mensch spent three hecti...
Lake County Film Festival founder Nat Dykeman launches the new DVD label "Cinema Obscura" in time for the March 9-12 festival. They are Ruth Leitman's "Alma," John Covert's "...
When a Philadephia-based commercial producer working at a local studio was unwilling to sign a union contract and pay worker benefits, Local 476 picketed the shoot on Wednesday....
With Wisconsin's film incentives soon to become a reality, coupled with Illinois' incentives, Film Wisconsin envisions a thriving Third Coast of production. "We're almost t...
Having built a strong base in sound for TV and radio spots, Static Studios is looking to return to its roots and film and music by expanding to customized space in River North. ...
BEN BYER'S documentary "Indestructible," about his globe-spanning search for innovative treatments for ALS, will have its world premiere at the prestigious 17th Annual Cineques...
WHO SHE IS: Susana DeSantiago, owner/president of DeSanti Talents, bought the multi-cultural Salazar & Navas Talent Agency a year ago in February 2006 from Myrna Salazar, who re...
Joe Swanberg's new feature ""Hannah Takes the Stairs" marks his third consecutive South by South West Film Festival premiere, following his "Kissing on the Mouth" in 2005 and "L...
Film Wisconsin continues to strive for a Third Coast of film production, which its leaders envision as a geographic blend of Wisconsin and Illinois resources. Towards this en...
While commercials have risen like cream to the top of 2006's total film revenues, income from features went flat at an estimated $35 million. The Illinois Film Office 2006 e...
When Mike East returned from a tour of duty with the Army's 42nd Division Artillery Unit in Iraq, "we expected him to be happy to be back home," his sister Shana East said. "...
Chicago advertising made an impression at the 36th international Mobius Advertising Awards of Los Angeles by winning 12 awards out of 271, and a Milwaukee agency scored one. ...
Once all the counting and accounting was done and preliminary estimates made by the Illinois Film Office, 2006 shaped up as an astonishing year for Illinois production. What...
