The small spots with simple names are the ones that always snare me, e.g., The Latin Sandwich Caf?, 4009 N. Elston Ave., an unassuming Chilean restaurant. It's the kind...
Director Barbara Freeman's decision to leave her familiar office of 14 years wasn't an easy one. She could stay at 10 W. Hubbard St. by downsizing her space or staking out ...
Story executive producer Mark Androw produced the first commercial last month under the new 20% tax incentive?his 27th job utilizing the Illinois tax incentive to stretch increa...
Cinedigital of Madrid, Spain will release Kitchen Film Productions' microbudget gangster picture "Legit" on 400 screens throughout Spain this August. Cinedigital minimizes i...
"DRUNK BOAT" DIRECTOR Bob Meyers and DP Lisa Rinzler are due back in Chicago in July to color correct with I-Cubed's Mike Matusek. The indie film was filmed in Super 16 la...
An audience of 2,000 adfolk attended the 15th annual AICP Show at the Museum of Modern Art last week to applaud the 82-minute reel of the best commercials of 2005. Unlike in...
A new sound recording studio is underway under the baton of Michael Nehs, a former local film company executive, who has raised $750,000 from investors to build and operate ...
Split Pillow wraps up its fourth production season with perhaps its most commercial project yet?a produced-under-the-radar gay comedy called "soulMaid." "Certainly gay audien...
With his feature "8 of Diamonds" just finished and fresh from the Cannes Market, director/producer Scott Prestin has his next film slated for an August shoot, and a third in the...
Local celebs and political leaders are among the guests expected at the IPA Victory Party June 13 at Rockit Bar and Grill. The party celebrates IPA's influential role in ...
GEORGE ELDER'S CONCERT DOC, "Piaf: Her Story ? Her Songs," sung by French jazz singer Raquel Bitton, is set for June 19 release by Lionsgate to major national U.S. retailers...
Celebrating the roots of hip hop and its potential while critiquing the current state of the culture, Sonali Aggarwal's in-progress feature documentary takes a hard look at "Wha...
When the body 14-year-old Kyle Seney was found in the White River in Southern Indiana in 1997, the Indiana State Police launched an investigation that revealed years of abuse an...
While I was in Bali on a recent shoot, a sun-blistered fisherman suggested which red snapper I should buy for lunch from among the several he'd caught a few hours earlier from t...
Paragon Media, whose roots were planted deep in Chicago as a small niche custom-duplication business back when videotape was king, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. ...
Back in town after a three-year stint in L.A., Rob Federighi has hit the ground running with four very different projects in the works. He is producing the game show pilot "...
"CPS RIGHT NOW," a news magazine-style show about the people and activities of the Chicago Public Schools, is being directed and edited by S2's John Anderson. Two of the sh...
BAM Studio's Brian Reed is a persistent cuss. It took him five years, never doubting, to achieve his goal of getting major music libraries to join in his quest for a better del...
CHAD QUEEN of B Minus Productions starts shooting his debut feature "In the Loop" this June. It's the story of three longtime friends (Andrew Yearick, Jack Calhoun and Jacq...
Dan Halperin of Epiphany Pictures is producing Craig Harris' feature adaptation of Harris' 2003 TV drama "Skin Complex" that garnered five Midwest Emmys, among other awards. ...
