McClellan’s Black History Month doc airs on PBS
SETH McCLELLAN’S “KING IN CHICAGO” is a new hourlong documentary chronicling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s collaboration with the Chicago Freedom Movement for open housing in 1966,
SETH McCLELLAN’S “KING IN CHICAGO” is a new hourlong documentary chronicling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s collaboration with the Chicago Freedom Movement for open housing in 1966,
Siskel/Jacobs’ “real time” recreation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center is so groundbreaking that the History Channel will air it without commercial interruption on Sept. 11
“Kate,” one of 78 “reporters” vying for five finalist positions, is the highest rated candidate in the competition, and the only “reporter” who actually has been reporting on presidential
Google features Pixel Brothers as one of the first companies in its new “Google Success Story,” its new division to create TV ads for advertisers, using the
Filmmaker Christopher Coppola’s unique digital media PAH-FEST is coming to Chicago for a full week, March 22-30. It’s not for professionals or film students, but read on.
ACTOR MATT DILLON will portray Leonard Chess, the legendary founder of the South Side Chicago blues label Chess Records, in Sony/BMG Film’s “Cadillac Records.”
After 28 years as the king of kid commercials, the leader of the little people, Bob Ebel has closed shop. His building is up for sale. He’s not leaving the
WHO HE IS: He’s one of two executive producers at STORY production company, boasting a roster of top directors and producing spots for top agencies around the country.
It was a near-chance meeting with his school’s janitor that set Bruce David Janu on the road to producing his first feature documentary, the 90-minute “Facing Sudan.”
STORY’S Laurie Rubin directed a new continuing Ace Hardware campaign that focuses on the store’s helpful employees, created by Mars Advertising of Detroit, the new agency for Oak Brook-based Ace.
After the success of their first film “Straightman,” the “two Bens,” Ben Berkowitz and Ben Redgrave, used their leverage and co-produced the documentaries “Rockets Redglare” and “Nice Bombs.” The latter
Los Angeles-based six28 Productions LLC, a multi-media production company, signed Evanston-based novelist and screenwriter, Jay Bonansinga to adapt the book, “Sunk Without a Sound,” a true story by Brad
Don’t let the fact that only three local companies?none of the big ones you’d expect to be represented?deter you from attending the 15th annual AICP Show Nov. 16 at the
SPLIT PILLOW launches its fifth season with the Chicago preview of the gay romantic comedy “soulMaid” in a three-night run at Chicago Filmmakers.
Following the patented
STORY teamed with Filmworkers Club for visual effects to produce a spot for Goodyear’s new Eagle Response tires in which a silver sedan winds through a field of dreams.
Story executive producer Mark Androw produced the first commercial last month under the new 20% tax incentive?his 27th job utilizing the Illinois tax incentive to stretch increasingly tighter budgets for
A feature based on popular mystery-thriller novelist Jay Bonansinga’s short story, “Stash,” goes into production in July, with the writer making his debut as a director.
WHO SHE IS. Film and TV veteran, show producer/documentarian Barbara E. Allen of Middle Passage productions. She’s an eight-time Emmy nominee and two-time winner, a.k.a. “BA.”
U.S. TV audiences get an unusually personal window into the challenges of teen pregnancy this October, when the Kindling Group’s documentary “A Doula Story” has its broadcast premiere on PBS.
Nixon Olanya and Evelyn Apiyo were abducted from their childhood homes and forced into the service of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Olanya as a soldier and Apiyo as a sex