IFP/Chicago's third annual Producers Series gets down to the business of film and getting it to market with lectures and panels by proven experts from throughout the country, in...
WHO HE IS: Newly elected secretary treasurer/business manager heading IATSE Local 476, Motion Pictures Studio Mechanics?a third generation 476 member. HOW HE VIEWS HIS JOB: "...
It may be short notice, but IFP/Chicago expects a full house when it holds "A Conversation with Robert Townsend" Monday, March 19 at Columbia College. Townsend is shooting hi...
Chicago's premier post house Avenue moved its 63 employees and more than $3 million of new HD equipment to two state-of-the-art floors just blocks from their facility of 25-plus...
Four Door Films has begun an HD shoot in Chicago artificial intelligence-based music video spots, while guided by a human composer for St. Louis software company Imagination Eng...
Frustrated and angered by a lone, but powerful state legislator's refusal to push up the Film Wisconsin incentives start date, Film Wisconsin has called for filmmakers to voice ...
Kartemquin Films, the 41-year old social documentary collective, has reestablished a board of directors as it proceeds with a multi-year leadership succession. Board chair ...
WHO SHE IS: Jorie Landfear, an in-house commercial producer with Bally Total Fitness since 2005. Based out of Bally's Cumberland corporate office near O'Hare, Landfear often...
After 18 months on the festival circuit, Brian Jun's debut feature, "Steel City," goes out this summer under the Truly Indie banner, the year-old venture from 2929 Entertainment...
Avant-rocker Tim Kinsella sees his move into filmmaking, with his debut feature "Orchard Vale," as a natural outgrowth of his musical evolution. "The totality of my life experie...
"DIMENSION," the debut feature from Rusted Rhino Production Company, had its world premiere at The Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, Calif., where it was one of 14 narrative ...
Editor Bruce Frankel has moved his location from off Michigan Ave. to Northbrook, and shifted from a decades-long emphasis on strictly commercials to a mix of visual media. F...
AICP's fourth annual Survey of the Commercial Production Industry shows that nearly 70% of member companies produced non-traditional advertising outside of the traditional telev...
EMMY WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER Bob Primes ("Sleeper Cell," 14 episodes of "Felicity") heads the speakers at the all-day SOC Midwest Camera Operators Workshop March 24 at Fletche...
Nat Dykeman's quest to bring a taste of independent and international cinema to the one million cinematically underserved Lake County residents continues with the 4th annual Lak...
For anyone in need of audio for a project, high-quality audio equipment at a reasonable price has been somewhat challenging until now. Eben Carlson's White Gold Sound System...
Tom Rovak, S2/Swell's ace colorist for a dozen years, has been freelancing under the banner of his new company, Highly Defined, Inc., until he opens Chicago's only independent c...
At one of the post-Oscar parties, Chicago's very own Vince Vaughn met the Tribune's Mark Caro and told him how much he had enjoying filming "Fred Claus" here in January. But ...
"The Nude Hippo-Your Chicago Show" is airing favorite episodes from its pool of over 200 leading up to its big-production, 10th anniversary show April 9 at the Apollo Theater. ...
WHO HE IS: Actor/voiceover talent Todd Hissong is serving his second two-year term as president of Chicago Screen Actors Guild, (SAG). "I got involved in union politics after th...
