South Sider Ozzie Guillen of the White Sox (left) squares off against North Sider Dusty Baker of the Cubs for the best Subway sandwich. Each believes the sandwich he made is ...
It took Leah Elder less than a New York minute to land a job in L.A. as assistant to the producer of a new TV show, "LAX." Elder, daughter of Luminair's Beth and George Elder, ...
Mutual respect and a working relationship and friendship over a dozen years resulted in new Airstream Audio, the creative post facility of award-winning engineer David Axe...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
At the recent AICP-sponsored Production Assistants seminar at Essanay, Schumacher Camera general manager James Pope offered expert advice regarding responsibilities when pickin...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...