HERE'S HOW IT SHAKES DOWN. The IFO's Joe Amari and Todd Lizak, assisted by intern Lisa Banks, will share some of the duties handled by deputy director Bob Hudgins who exit...

USAMA ALSHAIBI'S in-progress documentary "Nice Bombs," about returning to his native Baghdad during the U.S. occupation, has been selected as one of 29 projects to participate i...

Dave Leffel, formerly audio designer at Swell, joined Brian Reed's BAM! Studio as audio engineer for BAM!'s new, second audio suite. "Overall, the new suite adds to our curr...

One month after Tonisha Daniel and her family appeared on a 2004 radio spot talking about organ donation, she became a liver recipient. This year's commercial for the Illino...

"Milan is a beautiful city. It's a true European working city, very much like Chicago," said director/DP Michael Neumann of One World Productions. He recently shot a neo sci-...

Kartemquin Films is teaming with Tribune music critic Howard Reich to document the life of Reich's mother, Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich. Howard Reich approached Kartemquin ...

Juan Frausto's fourth feature, the immigration drama "La Migra," has its world premiere April 8 at the Chicago Latino Film Festival. "La Migra" (Mexican slang for the Border...

Paul Traynor of Hay Moon, Inc. is out to make "Witches' Night" a horror movie for grown-ups on a $500,000 to $1 million budget he's raising from private investors. Traynor i...

Cliff Grant has joined The Story Companies (Chicago Story) as executive producer and head of sales. He shares these duties with Mark Androw, who is also AICP national chairman....

Foote Kirkpatrick, as legendary in the music business as Universal Recording, of which she was an integral part for 20 years, is back in the recording business after too long an...

School of the Art Institute professor Ruth Leitman's "Lipstick & Dynamite" began its theatrical run Friday, March 25 on four screens in New York. The doc will have its Los Ange...

WTTW is the first public television station to offer stock footage purchases from its extensive 50-year video history online. It launched WTTW Digital Archives after five mon...

brings a tongue and cheek view to the notion that forest clear cutting will come so far that your own backyard will suffer. Produced by Downtown Partners and directed by Jeffer...

Three musicals written by Chicagoans?two with California collaborators?were chosen by the prestigious ASCAP Foundation/Disney Theatrical Productions Musical Theatre Workshop. ...

Four films by Chicago directors are among the 58 features from 20 countries presented at the 21st Chicago Latino Film Festival April 9-21 at more than a dozen venue across the c...

A NEW AD AGENCY called Houlihan Madison Most has been formed by Kevin Houlihan and Brad Most, for many years with the Chicago Creative Partnership. While HMM is clientless at t...

GERARD JAMROZ of Lincolnhead Productions completed postproduction on his debut feature "Chicago Poems." The black and white, DV ensemble drama follows the intertwining stories ...

Stories of the little-known business of product placement were spotlighted on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable in the person of Chicago's George Simkowski of Let's Go Hollywood...

Voiceover superstar Harlan Hogan has returned to the legitimate theatre for the first time in more than 25 years. Looking very dapper and trim in a well-fitted double-breasted...

The 21st Chicago Latino Film Festival will screen 58 feature films from 20 countries and 31 shorts from 13 countries at more than a dozen venues across the city and suburbs. ...