Drawing on a rich tradition of bluntness and iconoclasm, Chicago is home to a wealth of documentarians, from TV powerhouses like Towers and Kurtis Productions to national theatr...
Production company 33 Degrees is poised to open a new one-stop production facility and is on the verge of closing a multi-picture film deal including the sale of their fea...
PENCILS? DDB and Leo Burnett, high-ranking winners in every competition they enter, were the only Chicago agencies to win prestigious Pencil Awards from New York's One Show hono...
MICHIGAN'S LEGISLATURE stepped up to the incentive plate and knocked home a financial incentive package that's "a first for Michigan," said an elated Janet Lockwood, Michigan ...
Mike Merrill of N'Site Films will direct his third feature in twelve months this July when he begins production on the $350,000 35mm murder mystery "August." Merrill, who found...
This is the second in a two-part survey of local documentarians, who they are, their background and credits. Ranging from national leaders like Kartemquin, Towers and Kur...
While three Chicago editors ranked among the 34 finalists in the 3rd Annual AICE award show held May 13, only I-Cubed's Arturo Cubacub rode into the elite winners' circle of 13....
Chicago's Joffrey Ballet will dance on in millions of homes with the June 1 Sony Pictures Classics' DVD release of Robert Altman's "The Company," a documentary-like look a...
David Miller of Mindlight Films, who runs the Sangamon St. Studios in the former Orbis facility, is producing "Finding Preet," an HD romantic comedy feature, for IV Enter...
Filmmakers Hossein Khandan and Shahin Yazdani followed three Chicago women artists through a day in their lives that was like any other, with one exception ? the three women fac...
Glencoe commercial and corporate video company Production House is developing a comedy home makeover TV series that producer Mark Tulloss describes as "Queer Eye for the Straigh...
The HD Roadshow rolls into Chicago May 25 with the whole nine yards of high definition as it stands today, presented by television experts Michael Silbergleid of Miami and Mark ...
The Illinois General Assembly is set to approve $18.5 million for the Illinois Arts Council (IAC) for Fiscal 2005, the same amount as last year. While the bulk of the mon...
Scott SmithDuane Edwards Two of the original six Chicago Project Greenlight contestants have advanced to the elite Top Ten, competing to direct a $1 million horror/mystery fe...
Jon Ross has the church to thank for the chance to produce and star in a 35mm feature film from his own script, "Love's Curves."Since January, Ross and co- producer John Ro...
A whirlwind two-and-a-half day visit to New York ad agencies to promote commercial production in Chicago was "an unqualified success," said AICP Midwest president Mark Eg...
Two business friends have launched an idea whose time has come: An outside-operated in-house production service within a major agency. Chicago Recording veterans Mindy Verson...
A Chicago-made indie film screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival last week. "Boricua," a story about a diverse array of characters living in Humboldt Park and ...
Two grisly photographs of the mutilation of a dead black man and an ominous caption given to an African-American Local 476 member by two white union members working on P...
Horror/sci-fi fans will be thrilled to death May 15-16 to see legendary "Night of the Living Dead" writer/director George Romero when he makes a rare Chicago appearance at...