ASB hosts fitness class for deskbound agency staffers
FOR THOSE AGENCY STAFFERS who are desk bound and work long hours (i.e., everyone) Loop-based Animated
FOR THOSE AGENCY STAFFERS who are desk bound and work long hours (i.e., everyone) Loop-based Animated
SEVERAL CHICAGO FILMMAKERS are heading to the May 13-24 Cannes Film Festival to
A BIG WEEKEND OF EVENTS is here, with more to come throughout this busy October. The IFP Filmmakers Conference is back after
THREE WOMEN FILMMAKERS whose work premieres in the 50th Chicago International Film Festival, join two local producers in a Community Cinema screening
R/GA RAMPED UP its 4-year old Chicago digital
ALTHOUGH BEAST EDITORIAL edits music videos and indie shorts, this is the first time the company and editor Angelo Valencia have cut a feature. The project is Winnetka
WINNER OF THE IFO’S 2012 Illinois Shortcuts competition is the dark comedy “Wednesday’s Child, from director Rocco Cataldo and cinematographer Mike Kwielford of Potenza Productions, a corporate, spot
October traditionally is the most eventfully-active month of the year as our calendar proves. We will continue to add events as quickly as they announced so, as they say, “stay
Director Julian Grant and producer Boris Wexler couldn’t attend the New York City International Film Festival closing ceremonies last week, but fortunately two production company members did, as
TAKING OVER THE REINS of the Independent Feature Project, Chicago’s 25-year old hub of indie filmmaking is Christy LeMaster, who has run IFP’s recent and successful
A MAJOR AGENCY CHANGE is at hand as Bob Winter will join Y&R as chief creative officer of the Chicago office, starting in December. He
A TOTAL OF FIVE U.S.-made films won Chicago International Film Festival Gold and Silver Hugo awards. One of those five was a Best Actress Silver Hugo
DAVID SCHWIMMER AND ALAN CUMMING are the stars at CIFF’s Red Carpet Monday night. The Festival welcomes openly gay actor Cumming, who receives the fest’s Artistic Achievement
GOLD HUGOS TEND TO BE SCARCE around these parts, so it was with understandable great excitement that Foundation Content’s Samantha Hart received word of a Gold
WHAT ARE THE ODDS of filmmakers actually seeing their short film premiere at two international film festivals, being held the same weeks this month, at two
FIVE MICHIGAN MADE MOVIES are featured at the Toronto Film Festival, Sept. 9-19. “These films are not only a success with the critics, they are a success for Michigan’s
MOVIE AND TELEVISION STARS will abound this month as they headline gala fund-raisers to support the city’s culturally important visual arts organizations.
A NEW CHIEF CREATIVE FOR DDB after a two year search appears to be Ewan Paterson, 42, ECD at London’s Cemmow Horby Inge & Partners.
TIMING IS EVERYTHING, they say, and Roger Ebert’s new movie review show comes on the scene coincidentally as the last vestiges of Disney’s “At the
When producer Laura Szymber met writer/director Brad DeMarea at a coffee shop a year ago to read the script he wanted to make, she was immediately sold on it. “I