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...

continues with "Dojo Kid," edited by Radar's Greg Somerlot for Leo Burnett's fourth spot in the series. Believe Media of L.A. filmed New York's Mighty Kid Adjenai Worrell as ...

CATHERINE E. RUBEY is writer and executive producer of the feature film "Baggage," now in pre-production for a planned shoot this summer/fall. Rubey's script is about an ai...

VETERAN COLORIST BOB SLIGA was snapped up by Apple Computers and is now working for the computer giant in Cupertino, Calif. He heads up Apple's 2K Final Touch color correction...

Los Angeles-based six28 Productions LLC, a multi-media production company, signed Evanston-based novelist and screenwriter, Jay Bonansinga to adapt the book, "Sunk Without a So...

Chicago was MIA in the current issue of MovieMaker magazine's list of the 10 best American cities to live, work and make movies. Here we are, with the most diverse loca...

Seeing a future in mini-features for new media outlets, Screen Door Films' "The Swing," its first feature in a 30-minute time frame and shot in HD, will premiere Feb. 17 at the ...

WHO SHE IS: With Thea Flaum Productions since 2004, this woman with 17 pairs of boots, who believes "there is always room for one more," makes an ideal producer of DIY Network's...

Chicago musicians will be represented at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards Feb. 11 with 14 nominations, and, for the 20th consecutive year, the show's massive audio requirements wil...