Broadcast and home video distributor Screen Media Pictures has signed to release two Chicago independent features, Bruce Terris' "Dirty Work" and Marisol Torres' "Chicago Boricu...

This year it was a tightrope, next year it's a satellite. Clayton Brown's "Galileo's Grave" follows Paula Froehle's "Up on the Rope" as the recipient of the annual IFP/Chic...

ETTA WORTHINGTON of Fernworks Productions teamed with director Carol Hutchins' Communications Solutions to produce a video now in production for the State Attorney's Office an...

DP MARC MILLER IS IRAQ-BOUND for a month of filming Jake Rademacher's theatrical documentary, "Brothers at War." They received Army permission and clearance Dec. 1 after many ...

Technicolor Digital Cinema announcement of its long-awaited deployment plan for digital cinema will seismically altered the film distribution landscape. The venture intends ...

Ira Glass, creator and host of the ten-year-old nationally syndicated Chicago Public Radio hit "This American Life," is developing a string of film projects, mostly adapted from...

WBBM news radio host Felicia Middlebrooks premiered her debut documentary, "Somebody's Child: The Redemption of Rwanda," in the recent New York International Independent Film & ...

After directing two pictures and writing several scripts for hire, Mark Harris has just seen his first sold script go into production. Co-writer Barry Bowles ("Nothin' 2 Los...

WINNERS OF MWFF'S at the 2005 Best of the Midwest Awards will be unveiled Dec. 6 at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema. Best director nominees are Aaron Himelstein for "Sugar...

Major industry player and Second City alum Harold Ramis built a career as a leading writer, then writer-director of comedies like "Animal House," "Caddyshack," "Ghostbusters" an...

There's a whole new take on the four-day Chicago Motion Graphics Festival coming up in late January. Instead of one venue one night, GMGF will present 40 entries in four locati...

Twenty nine Jeff Awards were spread among 20 productions and 13 theatres at the 37th annual awards ceremony held Nov. 7 at Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place. Congo Squar...

DARREN MARTINEZ and DECLAN RYAN of the non-profit Start Thinking Corporation are in New Orleans shooting the documentary "Hellp" about the efforts of New Orleanians to recover f...

A TRIBUTE TO KARTEMQUIN FILMS on its 40th anniversary, "Truth in Motion: A Retrospective of Kartemquin Films," will be held Nov. 3 and Nov. 10-12 at the University of Chicago Fi...

The One Show Traveling Exhibition of New York has come to Chicago for the first time in its 30 year history. Award-winning print ads, TV spots and design are on exhibition at P...

One of the biggest grip/lighting equipment companies in the film industry has opened its first branch outside of Los Angeles and Las Vegas at Chicago Studio City. Cinelease ...

The best tres leches cake I ever tasted was at a small Latin restaurant in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, tucked away in a tiny hideaway called El Cocotero. When the sultry...

MEGAN VIDAS JOINS THE IFO in charge of the TV commercials sector in mid-November. Vidas, wife of uber-rep Rich Newman, is a former producer of political videos and commercials,...

Nikki Weiss, the hard-working rep for A-list production companies and directors, has become executive producer of a documentary that she's wanted to make for nine years. The ...

Former Illinois Film Office deputy director Bob Hudgins has left Chicago for Austin, Texas where he'll start his new job as director of the Texas Film Commission Dec. 1. He s...