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...
STANDUP COMIC DARYL MOON wrapped production in early May on his feature directorial debut, the office war satire "The House of Water and Light." "Nicholas Prigge and I started ...
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...
The filmmakers of Griot Filmworks will return to Chicago for their first major studio production when the MGM film, "Step in the Name of Love," shoots here later this year.Produ...
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 ...
The collaborative, fast-filmmaking event is open to filmmakers and actors of all experience and backgrounds. Fourteen movies were made during last year's Challenge 1.0 in...
"Dee Dee Rutherford," the third film from Bob Brown and Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Films, shoots here in June. "Dee Dee" is a comedy about the black sheep of a blue blood family ...
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 ...
