Patti LaBelle After a year of tracking down lost episodes of "SOUL!" WPA Film Library assembled a remarkable collection of the African American TV series not seen in...

Executive producer Brad Wells Cheeseburger Films' Brad Wells made history of a sort when the company's urban indie feature became the very first movie to be funded by...

A new production company with "a healthy roster of clients" is bravely opening at a time when less intrepid producers are looking for another line of work.? Director Michae...

Not everyone is a football freak glued to his TV set on Super Bowl Sunday, reasoned independent filmmaker Jeff Daniels and his managing partner, Bob Brown, of Purple Rose Fi...

John Ennis is the 'Man With A Van' Come March, "Man with a Van," a comedy short with sitcom ambitions, starts out on the festival route. The Aspen Comedy Festival w...

Ron Lazzeretti Spoke director Ron Lazzeretti is a man of many talents, says executive director Ed Amaya, referring to Lazzeretti's little known Tuesday night gig at F...

Rick Bauer was the quintessential actor, said friend and fellow actor Shirley Kelly. "I don't know anyone more dedicated to his craft than Rick.?He never had a bad day, never ...

Scott Parkinson (Cassius) in Julius Caesar. photography by Liz Lauren Synchronization of racing clouds and stars that move across five massive screens, with the pass...

I-Cubed garners accolades for these Wrangler jeans commercials. Risk taking by agency Two by Four gave the now-airing Wrangler commercials their edge and brought the...

Humorist Joe Keefe, Humor Resources' fearless leaderLast year was the best year in the history of Joe Keefe's Humor Resources. Actually, it was his only year.?The la...

BARBIZON LIGHTING doubled its space to 4,000-sq. ft. and added much needed storage space when it moved last month to 2525 N. Elston from 2356 N. Damen. The new separate war...

Editor Scott Taradash spent two years and close to $50,000 of his own money to produce "Honeyboy," a feature length doc about Chicago blues legend David "Honeyboy" Edwardsby. Th...

Bill Reis, considered to be Chicago's top audio mixer, died Jan. 1 of a stroke subsequent to what appeared to be successful heart surgery a week earlier at Highland Park hospi...

Stars of DDB's new "Power of Cheese" campaign are baseball Hall of Famers Sparky Anderson and Johnny Bench, manager and former catcher of the Cincinnati Reds, respectively. ...

Ch. 11 stages will jump Dec. 18 when HD Ready captures its third "Sound Stage" show with Lyle Lovett's 20-piece Large Band and songwriter Randy Newman. The show is based ...

Sandi Stevenson, from Libertyville, a part-time copywriter with Vance Publishing, a finance attorney Richard Kohn and his writing partner Brian Adler, an L.A. producer/directo...