After a decade-long business partnership, I-Cubed editor/effects artist Arturo Cubacub and engineer Mark Adler are splitting up and going their separate ways probably around May...
Chicago-headquartered ProActive Inc., a strategic design and face-to-face marketing events firm, was purchased this week by Dallas-based Freeman, a 26-city, a full-service resou...
MJZ, the bicoastal spot house that's won more awards than any other production company, will pick up still another?this one from the 43rd annual Hugo Television Awards. The...
A SLATE OF CURENT AND UPCOMING FEATURES are bringing plenty of spring sunshine are making a lot of people happy campers. As related by Local 476's Mark Hogan, here's...
THE CHICAGO DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL returns in its biennial incarnation with more than 100 docs screening between March 30 and April 8 at eight venues throughout the city. ...
Proponents of the Film Wisconsin incentives bill eager for the incentives to begin July 1, 2007 instead of January, 2008, got a chance to express their views at the Wisconsin le...
According to award-winning producer/writer Jerome Courshon, a Park Forest native living in L.A., "most filmmakers don't know the right strategies and they flounder around trying...
WBBM news anchor and radio journalist Felicia Middlebrooks will screen her powerful, prize-winning 52-minute documentary, "Somebody's Child: The Redemption of Rwanda" March 31, ...
WHO HE IS: Nadav Kurtz, editor at post-production house Cutters since January 2007. He's working with Draft/FCB Chicago on 3 :30 commercial spots to air internationally and dome...
IFP/Chicago will be one of more than 100 service organizations and vendors participating in the fourth annual Creative Chicago Expo on Saturday, April 21. Organizers from the...
Fletcher Chicago is the first camera house in the Midwest to offer rentals of the Arri 416?Arriflex' first new 16mm camera in 30 years when the SR was introduced. The camera,...
The Wisconsin legislature's recalcitrance to regenerate its tax incentives and bring business into that needy state is a mystery, as many states recognize the economic advantag...
JEFF KEHE and JOHN CHAMPION of Evanston-based Stone Face Productions has signed a deal with Orlando-based Transit TV. Transit TV will play Stone Face's DVD review show "DVD...
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 ...
