Foote Kirkpatrick, as legendary in the music business as Universal Recording, of which she was an integral part for 20 years, is back in the recording business after too long an...
School of the Art Institute professor Ruth Leitman's "Lipstick & Dynamite" began its theatrical run Friday, March 25 on four screens in New York. The doc will have its Los Ange...
WTTW is the first public television station to offer stock footage purchases from its extensive 50-year video history online. It launched WTTW Digital Archives after five mon...
brings a tongue and cheek view to the notion that forest clear cutting will come so far that your own backyard will suffer. Produced by Downtown Partners and directed by Jeffer...
Three musicals written by Chicagoans?two with California collaborators?were chosen by the prestigious ASCAP Foundation/Disney Theatrical Productions Musical Theatre Workshop. ...
Four films by Chicago directors are among the 58 features from 20 countries presented at the 21st Chicago Latino Film Festival April 9-21 at more than a dozen venue across the c...
A NEW AD AGENCY called Houlihan Madison Most has been formed by Kevin Houlihan and Brad Most, for many years with the Chicago Creative Partnership. While HMM is clientless at t...
GERARD JAMROZ of Lincolnhead Productions completed postproduction on his debut feature "Chicago Poems." The black and white, DV ensemble drama follows the intertwining stories ...
Stories of the little-known business of product placement were spotlighted on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable in the person of Chicago's George Simkowski of Let's Go Hollywood...
Voiceover superstar Harlan Hogan has returned to the legitimate theatre for the first time in more than 25 years. Looking very dapper and trim in a well-fitted double-breasted...
The 21st Chicago Latino Film Festival will screen 58 feature films from 20 countries and 31 shorts from 13 countries at more than a dozen venues across the city and suburbs. ...
Fatcake Productions continues to carve out their niche in "Food, Adventure and Travel (F.A.T.)" programming, with one pilot in the can and awaiting a green light from the Travel...
Naperville native Bob Odenkirk returns this spring to direct his second feature, "You Are Going to Prison!" He will shoot April 18-May 22, at the Joliet State Prison and other ...
In just three years, the Chicago International Documentary Festival has grown into one of the nation's premiere showcases for nonfiction film, boasting 110 films selected from a...
DDB has focused an enlightened eye on Chicago as it seeks new local graphics design talent?at least for one of its clients, and hopefully for others as its recent quest yielded ...
Towers Productions, the 16-year old producer of cable content, is Chicago's largest production company, with estimated billings of $10 million. ReelChicago's Catherine Rat...
Pie Town Productions are moving forward with plans to shoot Chicago versions of two successful Home and Garden Television series. The North Hollywood-based company is curren...
While most corporate in-house studios have gone the way of the Kem and 2-inch tape, LaSalle Bank's Video Department has not only endured, but it will re-emerge as a new, updated...
GAY IS THE GIVEN, not the punchline. They're funny. They're gay. And when I saw their runway summer hit "Weddings of Mass Destruction," my first thought was, "I can't believ...
Music documentarian Lauri Feldman has seen her career take a substantial turn with "The Innocent," her feature doc about exonerated death row inmates that has its world premiere...