SPLIT PILLOW and CHICAGO FILMMAKERS have joined forces to launch a quarterly screening series. Chicago Filmmakers will premiere Split Pillow films, beginning in October with the...

Deborah Stratman didn't speak the language or know anyone in the Western Chinese Taklamakan desert when she went there alone in 2001 to shoot her documentary "Kings of the Sky."...

A heavy dose of hard-hitting politics joins the staples of transgressive and experimental cinema at the 12th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which runs Aug. 18-25 in i...

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...

THE FOUNDATION post house expanded this week by moving into a full, 6,000-sq. ft. floor with seven editing rooms at 200 E. Ohio, from 2,800-sq. ft. and four editing rooms in th...

Chip Eberhart is out to set the record straight about the music he helped create. Eberhart, who runs the post house High Level Video, was one of the pioneers of Chicago Hous...

The Museum of Broadcast Communications documentary that's in the works by Brian Boyer Productions will be used as educational kiosk in MBC's new building and for future on-air s...

The strong local showing in this year's Black Harvest Film Festival points to the growth of African American independent film production in Chicago that fest programmer Barbara ...

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...