GENIAL FRED BEYER, who filmmakers turn to for production insurance, reveals he is opening a downtown office for the first time after 24 years in business in South Holland and W...
Meeting as a Joint Board, directors of SAG and AFTRA on Aug. 26 overwhelmingly approved a two-year extension to the commercials contracts with the advertising industry by an alm...
Caf? con Leche, 2714 N. Milwaukee Ave., was hectic. The tiny restaurant featuring cheap cuisine from South of the Border (Mexico with a splash of Cuba) was throbbing with activi...
Two years ago comedy filmmaker Willy Laszlo exchanged his everyday production job for a chance to fulfill his dreams. He moved to L.A. In part one of this cautionary tale,...
The Midwest Audio Visual Expo?the first totally local showcase in about a decade?takes place Sept. 8-10 at North Park University. The Expo's purpose, said producer Man Sung S...
The Board of Education last week awarded S2/Swell an enviable $575,465 contract for a TV series?but not without public opposition. The Teachers Union, school advocates and...
Last December, art film cinema distributor Olive Films relocated from Richland, Washington to St. Charles bringing more than a few extra warehouses to Chicago's independent film...
When '60s furniture expert Judyth Jacobs invites you to have a seat, she really means it. Her company, propshopchicago, has 2,000-pluh tables and chairs for set rentals, co...
Starting in October, a proposed TV show of short films produced by area filmmakers will be televised over Cable25, the City of Chicago's own cable outlet for independent produce...
Matt Liston's feature-length "Chasing October: A Fan's Crusade," about a crazy fan who will do anything to get the Cubs into the World Series debuts Aug. 31 at the Music Box to ...
After more than a year in the works, filmmaker Misty Tosh's pilot for a half-hour spontaneous food/adventure show will air on the Travel Channel Aug. 24-25. "Craving Adventur...
COMEDY FILMMAKER WILLY LASZLO'S 10-minute comedy, "Tables," about love at fourth sight, was one of 13 films that screened in the Los Angeles Short Comedy Fest. Lazlo made...
Illinois' film tax credit is giving Chicago's spot production a shot in the arm. Productions under 30 minutes that spend $50,000 in the state can earn a 20% tax credit of their ...
Indefatigable and wildly talented adman/publisher Bruce Bendinger has waited 20 years to display both a hidden talent and an ambition. He has produced a CD of his songs call...
Not long after ReelChicago asked if I had any thoughts on changing technology's impact on postproduction, I came across an interview with director David Fincher. He casually m...
Cinema studies director Matt Irvine DePaul's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems (CTI) will offer the Midwest's first gra...
This was one of those mornings when I couldn't decide what I wanted for breakfast. ?Eggs and hash browns?? Tamales and caf? con leche? The only to settle it was to get ...
Indefatigable television producer Thea Flaum and multi-talented Chicago native Bonnie Hunt will be honored at Women in Film/Chicago's Focus Awards at a luncheon at the Ritz Ca...
The only da Vinci Resolve D/I color correction system east of L.A. is being used to restore vintage movies and TV shows in HD and provide creative color facilities for origina...
