AICE's Cage Match spring event May 11 is styled in a good-natured way after professional wrestlings ferocious steel cage matches. In the AICE version of wrestlers revenge, t...
Annette Galloway of talent group Diverciti Productions was looking for a way to "take control over [her] career" when her brother was the victim of an identify theft. That r...
Tax incentive legislation passed the state Senate last week 58-0, a good sign that legislators are serious about boosting revenues from increased film production and vying with ...
KISMET FILMS OF SINGAPORE hired Product Productions as its local production company on a commercial for Unilever's Sun Silk shampoo. The three-day shoot takes place this w...
Lifelong labor movement proponent Eileen Willenborg, who believes that the labor movement brings out the best in human nature, was named Labor Woman of the Year by the Chicago F...
When Betty Hoeffner, a PR specialist, heard editor Ernie Schubert's horror stories of medical goofs and errors observed during a lengthy stay in a suburban hospital, she said to...
IFP/CHICAGO on April 10 presents Meet the Funders, a panel discussion with representatives of documentary funding agencies. With Cleo Wilson of the Playboy Foundation, Enca...
DDB Chicago client Emerson Electronics, a $17 billion global technology and engineering giant, was more apt to advertise in obscure trade journals than on television. But th...
On smoke breaks from his job as creative director at Covenant Communications, Steven R. Luce would gather with friends under the bridge at Bryn Mawr and Kedzie. "We talked ...
Literary manager-turned-filmmaker Sean Carr shoots the location photography for his debut feature "He's Such a Girl" here this month. The Chicago-set comedy shoots here Apri...
A FIRE AT THE THEATRE BUILDING last week, ignited by an apparent electrical/computer surge, caused significant smoke and water damage to the box office and second floor admini...
One of the most important surveys of national advertisers conducted over the last decade shows that before long new media and technologies will radically alter the way their TV ...
Wisconsin catapulted to the top tier of the most film friendly states March 31 when the Legislative Joint Finance Committee voted 15-1 to approve the Film Wisconsin tax credit i...
Two Chicago-made films will have world premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival of during its April 25-May 7 run: Steve James' "The War Tapes," and Jeff Garlin's feature director...
Lawrence Lee Wallace adapts his own long-running sketch comedy show "Urban Scenze" for the screen in his film directorial debut, out now on DVD from Victory Multimedia. "It's...
CHICAGO'S LOSS IS PITTSBURGH'S GAIN. When the Art Institute politely declined to serve as the setting for a new TV pilot about art thieves, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum said t...
BRUCE TERRIS' debut feature "Dirty Work" has its festival premiere at the Midwest Independent Film Festival April 4. Starring Lance Reddick ("The Wire"), Mike McGlone ("The...
WHO HE IS: Joe Farina is a former educational worker who began acting three years ago as a second career. He follows the example of his father, "Law & Order" star Dennis Far...
Hyun Hyup Kim's debut feature, the HD family drama "The Gift," has its hometown premiere in a weeklong run now through April 2 at Lincoln Village Theater. A production of Wi...
TONY DEGUIDE of Windy City Films ("The Coroner") is shooting the HD interracial romantic drama "Baby's Got Back," which he said "celebrates the differences and similarities of A...
