DDB has focused an enlightened eye on Chicago as it seeks new local graphics design talent?at least for one of its clients, and hopefully for others as its recent quest yielded ...
Towers Productions, the 16-year old producer of cable content, is Chicago's largest production company, with estimated billings of $10 million. ReelChicago's Catherine Rat...
Pie Town Productions are moving forward with plans to shoot Chicago versions of two successful Home and Garden Television series. The North Hollywood-based company is curren...
While most corporate in-house studios have gone the way of the Kem and 2-inch tape, LaSalle Bank's Video Department has not only endured, but it will re-emerge as a new, updated...
GAY IS THE GIVEN, not the punchline. They're funny. They're gay. And when I saw their runway summer hit "Weddings of Mass Destruction," my first thought was, "I can't believ...
Music documentarian Lauri Feldman has seen her career take a substantial turn with "The Innocent," her feature doc about exonerated death row inmates that has its world premiere...
Mark Wexler exposes his often-stormy relationship with his father, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, in "Tell Them Who You Are," the film that closes the Chicago Interna...
Saving $125,800 and firing two people is hardly the answer to Wisconsin's $1.6 billion state budget deficit. But killing off the 19-year-old Wisconsin film office to save money?...
AMY LIKUS, former Optimus editor joined Outsider editorial? SMS Productions moved to 1229 N. North Branch after a dozen years entrenched at 676 N. LaSalle. Phone, 312/440-8963,...
Former 37th Ward Ald. Percy Giles returns to the public eye after a prison stint with "Mel Bay," an independent feature on which he's executive producer with writer and former p...
INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS men's fashion designer John Malkovich will be in Chicago to show his Uncle Kimono line of ready-to-wear creations. What? You thought Malkovich was an...
With third feature "Realization," Split Pillow continues the evolution of its collaborative film concept as a series of filmmakers build consecutively on each other's work to bu...
The Asian American Film Showcase marks its 10th year with a 10-day festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning April 1, an expanded doc section and a three-month art exhib...
Tod Lending follows up his Oscar-nominated "Legacy" with the new doc "Omar and Pete," premiering April 6 in the Chicago International Documentary Festival's Grand Prix Competiti...
RICARDO ISLAS of Alpha Studios has two features in local fests this April. His 2003 16mm bilingual thriller "Para Matar a un Asesino/To Kill a Killer" will show in the Chicago ...
After decades of film school/festival exile, the film short-as-product is back, feeding a huge and growing entertainment market in international television, web-based film and c...
Barely two months after he resigned as IFO deputy director, Bob Hudgins walked out of the office at 2 p.m. March 10 in what was a final end to his eight-year tenure at the...
Award-winning spot director and independent filmmaker Ron Lazzeretti joined FCB as SVP/creative development director, a position created exclusively for him. "How many agenc...
Shockingly, venerable Swiderski Electronics has suddenly closed its doors. The Itasca-based provider of systems integration, engineering and equipment sales and rentals ended it...
An estimated 100-plus vendors, many of them women and minority businesses certified to do business with the city and state, attended the Minority Vendors Summit to learn about b...
