BEYONDMEDIA 7013 N. Glenwood Ave. Salome Chasnoff, 773/973-2280 Non-profit media education and production company partners with community organizations to produce docs ab...

One day about six weeks ago, advertising photographer and loyal Democrat Steve Ewert got more steamed up than usual over something President Bush said. "We gotta do somet...

Bob Scarpelli, DDB Chicago chairman/DDB U.S. chief creative officer (third from left) receives congratulations on receiving the AAF Silver Medal Award from Dick Rogers, DDB pres...

The hard-won wage tax credit to benefit Illinois filmmaking will expire Jan. 1, 2005. The bill that would have extended the tax credit for an additional year never made it to a...

A second season of 13 "Soundstage" episodes launches June 17 on Ch. 11 and national PBS with a line-up of today's hottest performers. First show is a Fleetwood Mac concert perf...

Elizabeth Donius, whose experience strides indie films and TV docs, was named executive director of IFP/ Chicago by the board of directors after a three-month search. She ...

AT THE POST. Filament Post has officially replaced Spots BME as the name of Bruce Frankel's editing house. "I wanted it to be a new company, now that we're adding new peo...

Sweet Home Illinois, the Illinois Film Office party slated for June 19 in Hollywood for former Illini in the film industry, has been pushed back to September to give the organiz...

Bailiwick Repertory leads the 2003-2004 theatre season Jeff Citation Awards, to be presented June 7 at Park West before an expected audience of 700. The awards honor outstandin...

At the recent AICP-sponsored Production Assistants seminar at Essanay, Schumacher Camera general manager James Pope offered expert advice regarding responsibilities when pickin...

Producer Rogelio Gazga's SPI-TV Media and Andres Lombana's Mas Communications have launched a high school film production contest to encourage kids, especially minorities, to "g...

Joy Tillis of WJOY Music is Chicago's leading music supervisor, or "search artist," as she calls it. For the past 12 years she has connected ad agencies' commercial music...

Not only have two Chicago filmmakers advanced to the Top Ten in the heated Project Greenlight competition, but a local screenwriting team has been named to the Top 100 round of ...

Swell's newest editor is Masayo Kaneko, who since 2001 was assistant editor in apprentice-like style under ace editor Ed Maroney. Originally from Kawasaki, Japan, Kaneko moved ...