LAUREN FISCHER is hitting her stride as a recognized screenwriter. On Aug. 31 her "Wish I Might"?winner of the 2005 IFP/Chicago-Chicago Scriptworks contest?will have a staged r...

Fresh off wrapping production on his second annual "Rhyme Spitters" battle rap tournament DVD, Cherry Bomb producer Rich Seng is on to his next brainchild. He's marrying the...

FILM DIRECTOR JOEL ZWICK ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and the upcoming "Elvis Has Left the Building") has found a second artistic home in Chicago, where he can indulge his taste ...

EIGHTBALL FILMS' Caton Volk's music video with local electrorock band Assassins will start making the rounds of the prestigious Indie Music Festival in three Canadian cities, Se...

Six filmmakers will each contribute a short documentary about a different Chicago neighborhood to "Chicago360," production collective Split Pillow's first foray into non-fiction...

Carpe Diem's Ken Flisak was at Cinegear trade show in L.A. when he got the call late Thursday night from DDB/Shanghai to produce a Gatorade spot to be shot six days later. T...

CREATIVES AFTER 5. "Family Forensic" is a new A&E series created and produced by Glenn Marrichi, president/CEO of The Marketing Identity, an advertising strategic consulting ag...

Gus Van Sant's new film, "Last Days," is inspired by the events leading up to the 1994 suicide of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain and furthers the improvisational, elliptical, l...

Pie Town Productions of L.A. swings into production of two Chicago-set home HGTV makeover series in mid-August. Each 26-week series will tape three shows a month over the next 1...

Top agency creatives from around the U.S. will judge the the Chicago Creative Club/Chicago Ad Federation's third annual competition honoring the area's best advertising and desi...

Filmmaker donnie l. betts first met Oscar Brown, Jr. at a workshop in Denver when betts was a young actor there. "He inspired me to be the kind of artist I wanted to be, "an ...

Ben Byer was a 31-year-old actor and playwright in 2002 when he was diagnosed with the neuro-degenerative disease ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Nine months later,...

The Experimental Sound Studio has been around for almost two decades, known mainly to avant garde artists, musicians and media arts organizations. Now founder/engineer Lou M...

Zack Parker's debut feature, the horror picture "Inexchange," is due for release in seven countries this fall from Tempe, Ariz. video distributor Brain Damage Films and their in...

The 11th Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video is not only the biggest it's ever been?it also showcases its strongest-ever crop of local productions, spotlighti...

The Lights, Camera, Illinois! program is poised within the next two months to add as many as six films to the roster of eight that have been awarded the low interest loan. P...

BUSY GUYS. Bob Teitel and George Tillman's "Barbershop: The Series" will air this fall on Showtime, while HBO airs their "Soul of a Nation," an exploration of black music in ...

After Oprah thanked Rhythm Caf? on the air for providing her show with rehearsal space, the Near North admusic house added substantially to its menu of services. Owned by Ji...