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Corporate producer Metropolitan Filmworks wraps feature, preps doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 24, 2003

Diana Romero and Jim Griffith of Metropolitan FilmworksDiana Romero and her husband Jim Griffith were driving across country in March when the war in Iraq began."We were go...

Corporate producer Metropolitan Filmworks wraps feature, preps doc

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 24, 2003

Diana Romero and Jim Griffith of Metropolitan FilmworksDiana Romero and her husband Jim Griffith were driving across country in March when the war in Iraq began."We were go...

Learn about laughter

Jun 24, 2003

Zanie's hosts the Comedy Conference Aug. 1-3. By Ruth L Ratny One of my writers for several years at the Original Screen was a nice young man who was seriously aggressi...

Bob Hope writer Gene Perrett keynotes Chicago’s first Comedy Conference

Jun 24, 2003

Zanie's hosts the Comedy Conference Aug. 1-3. By Ruth L Ratny One of my writers for several years at the Original Screen was a nice young man who was seriously aggressi...

Two+One expands into education, narrative, and documentary

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 24, 2003

John Yaworsky of Two+OneWhether he's shooting out of a sea kayak or commemorating the centennial of the paperclip, corporate producer/director John Yaworsky of Two+One is cont...

Two+One expands into education, narrative, and documentary

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 24, 2003

John Yaworsky of Two+OneWhether he's shooting out of a sea kayak or commemorating the centennial of the paperclip, corporate producer/director John Yaworsky of Two+One is cont...

Schumacher acquires

Jun 24, 2003

Called "the ultimate jib arm for the ultimate shooter," the K-Hill Z-Jib has arrived at Schumacher Camera, the only Midwest rental house to carry the jib arm. With its uniq...

Schumacher acquires “ultimate jib”

Jun 24, 2003

Called "the ultimate jib arm for the ultimate shooter," the K-Hill Z-Jib has arrived at Schumacher Camera, the only Midwest rental house to carry the jib arm. With its uniq...

A sole Cannes Lion for Chicago

Jun 24, 2003

The Lions roar; but not for Chicago. Out of the 81 Lions presented at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, only DDB made Chicago proud. DDB brought home a Bro...

Does July 15 Ad Woman of the Year luncheon signal end of an era?

Jun 24, 2003

Burnett attorney Carla Michelotti is the 2003 Advertising Woman of the Year. The Ad Woman of the Year has come a long way, baby. When Leo Burnett's Carla Michelotti rece...

Latino Film Festival’s lone Chicago feature has encore screening June 28

By Ed M. Koziarski Jun 24, 2003

Antonio Franceschi (left) directs "Urban Poet."Among films from across the Americas that screened at the 19th Chicago Latino Film Festival was one feature film made in Chica...

Networking in Chicago, part two

Jun 12, 2003

by Joan Tortorici Ruppert In the digital age, face-to-face networking has become even more important as we relegate much of our communication to silence and text. B...

Producing pair launches animation festival and animation feature studio

Jun 12, 2003

It's an idea whose time has come. A full-fledged, super-sized, international spotlight on animated films. And it's being launched in late fall by a producing pair who brough...

The reality is, city shut down TV show building over permit lack

Jun 12, 2003

The City of Chicago shut down construction on the house where the network reality series "Starting Over" was set to shoot. Reality clashed with television "reality" thi...

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