"BARBER SHOP 2" BENEFIT MAKES THE CUT. Columbia College alums and "Barber Shop 2" producers George Tillman (left) and Bob Teitel (third from left) join college president Dr. War...
Executive director Rebekah Cowing will leave IFP/Chicago after four years, and the IFO's Bob Hudgins now heads IFP's new board of directors. After nearly four years at IFP...
Radio Ridge Productions is gearing up for a year of growth to follow up several major expansions in the past year."We're in the midst of a major drive toward new business develo...
Freelance editor Ryan Koscielniak has a plan to turn his passion for travel into a concept he can sell to television. Through his RyBred Films, he is producing the TV pilot "24...
Visions of Light's Joe Farris took a major risk last summer when he decided to buy how own camera package. He got a $150,000 loan with the Small Business Administration just b...
Seven women have set out to accomplish what it took 14 men to do before.The Women's Cliffhanger Project is a more streamlined, structured version of the improvisational filmmaki...
Joe Pytka needs no introduction. The King of Commercials ? the director who's made billions of dollars for the biggest advertisers in the world, the winner of every conceivable...
Good news for the film industry, baaad news for smokers. The good news: The Cook County Board of Commissioners Feb. 3 voted not to enact any type of lease tax, or to incre...
JWT wins the $12 million Illinois Tourism account, resigned last year by BBDO. Tom Bernadin is Leo Burnett's new president, from Interpublic's Lowe's/New York -- the first n...
Feature business last year in Illinois was not only a heckuva lot better than it first appeared ? and it also looks like it's going to significantly improve in 2004. Clockin...
At a time lately when "pulling back" is more often heard than "capital expansion," Film & Tape Works' announcement of a major equipment investment and a general growth was both ...
These are busy days for Chicago's resident audio guru Hank Neuberger. Make that Super busy. He and Terry Fryer, his partner in recently formed Third Wave Productions, had an i...
Walgreen's opening graphic was art directed by Swell's Nadia Hennrich. Dr. Lisa Thornton is the show host, and child/adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Bennett Leventhal provides a 2-...
Chicago actress Irma P. Hall remains in serious condition at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after a Saturday head-on collision. She has undergone open heart surgery for a pu...
He sold the farm to cover film costs and mortgaged his house to pay for postproduction, but John Swanson has made his movie ? a self-financed, under-$100,000 horror flick.The fi...
Director Michael Ojeda (left) and producer Joel Goodman will attend the Feb. 27 world theatrical premiere of "Lana's Rain" at the Music Box."Lana's Rain" star Oksana Orlenko wo...
by Carey Lundin, Co-Producer Indie feature "Sweet Home Chicago" I didn't go to Sundance just to watch movies. I went to soak up the creative spirit of the vanguard of filmma...
AFTRA ELECTION. New officers elected by 453 valid ballots from the membership are Dan Frick, president; David Gee, James Schneider and Richard Shazin, vice presidents; Eileen ...
Soft business, the shortage of features and concerts that were his core business, caused the shuttering of Scott Smith's Chicago Audio Works at The Media Center, 676 N. LaSalle ...
Before: The derelict Dempster St. station in Skokie is ready for the wrecking ball.After: Cartoonist/animator J.J. Sedelmaier's input helped to beautifully restore the 1924. ...
