WHO HE IS: Classically-trained "lower cost alternative" composer Greg Nicolett, 25, garnered Emmy certification in 2003 as an arranger for Brian Keane Music's score for HBO's "L...

Director Jaime Mariscal's first feature, "Welcome Back to the Barrio," won the Best Chicago Made film in the just-ended Latino Film Festival. The story is about college stude...

After two years as an effective volunteer organization, Film Wisconsin has opened its first official office and named Scott Robbe, industry veteran and a Film Wisconsin founder,...

Chicago was a happenin' place in the Soaring Sixties. Young filmmakers were changing the face and modus operandi of film, thanks to the new technology of the time, now seeming a...

SPINNING HUNK POWER INTO RELIEF AID, "Ocean's Thirteen" will have a June 7 Chicago premiere to support relief efforts in war-torn Darfur. Producer Jerry Weintraub and "Oc...

A NEW JWT CAMPAIGN for Dreyer's Dibs? bite sized ice cream snacks will run a cinema ads in July and August, and run on TV from now through the week of Sept. 17. Douglas Avery...

Just months since opening their doors, Chiopolis Entertainment LLC has ambitious plans including three feature films and a dozen-plus shorts, renovating its Humboldt Park facili...

WHO HE IS: He became senior producer at Wide Load Games after spending two years as studio director at motion capture-focused Red Eye Studios. At Red Eye, Krusell brought an...

ELLIOTT V. PORTER directs the feature "All About the Ring" for 25 days this August. "The film is a romantic comedy about how the institution of marriage has been trivialized ...

The Chicago Reporter will commemorate its 35th year of exploring Chicago's race and poverty disparities with its first-ever short documentary film competition and festival named...

After the success of their first film "Straightman," the "two Bens," Ben Berkowitz and Ben Redgrave, used their leverage and co-produced the documentaries "Rockets Redglare" and...

Seattle-based Corbis has launch of its worldwide Corbis Broadcast Solutions and named Jennifer Giles one of four new Business Development Managers in the U.S. and Europe. Gil...

STORY'S Laurie Rubin directed a new continuing Ace Hardware campaign that focuses on the store's helpful employees, created by Mars Advertising of Detroit, the new agency for Oa...

HANK NEUBERGER, Chicago's sound guru, is currently in Palm Springs where he will head a 90-member crew, including lots of Chicago guys, to produce a three day webcast of the ...

Midwest Media Group (MMG) has formed a strategic alliance with AZCAR Technologies of Toronto that will expand AZCAR's presence in the Midwest through MMG's sales offices in Arli...

"THE DARK KNIGHT," Warner Bros.' latest "Batman" installment could be "the largest single production ever shot in Chicago," says the CFO's Rich Moskal. It could add at l...

WHO SHE IS: As the effervescent executive director of IFP/Chicago since May 2004, leading the large, local independent film sector, connecting people and opportunities and offer...

Oscar nominee Tod Lending's latest documentary, "Rosevelt's America," has its broadcast premiere in a standalone screening on national PBS April 25. It plays locally at 10:30 p....

MICHAEL SMITH'S debut feature "The Minx" has its local premiere in a DVD release party May 12 at Schuba's Tavern. "The Minx" DVD is due out May 15. The story is about a moder...

Usama Alshaibi's personal Iraq documentary "Nice Bombs" will get a theatrical release in markets including Chicago and New York this summer through Seventh Art Releasing. "...