50 movies and live music mix at April 12-15 CIMMfest
There’s going to be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on when movies about punk rockers like The Mekons, Detroit’s MC5 and The Stooges and special appearances by musicians, filmmakers and
There’s going to be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on when movies about punk rockers like The Mekons, Detroit’s MC5 and The Stooges and special appearances by musicians, filmmakers and
A FORMER GOLDEN GLOVES middleweight boxing champion is the subject of “Fearless Fernando Hernandez: A Fighter’s Journey,” a 30-minute tragedy-to-triumph documentary made in its entirety, music included, by still/video photographer
Come November’s 2011 Emmy Awards ceremonies, a very large number of broadcasting persons and entities among scores of contenders, will take home a coveted Emmy statuette as winners in 27
BEAST EDITORIAL has been rockin’ lately with more than its usual major advertising spot work. To wit: It edited a major doc that will showcase at the <a
CRITICAL REVIEWS of the debut episode of the Chicago-set NBC series The Playboy Club were, to say the least, disappointing. It attracted a painfully low 1.6/4 rating in the 18-49
The 3rd annual Advertising Community Shorts Night Tuesday at the Midwest Independent Film Festival, Tuesday, Oct. 1, presents the work of 15 filmmeisters from ad and marketing agencies,
It looks as if this busy summer of 2011 will be remembered as a time when some of the Chicago advertising industry’s most iconic client/agency relationships finally splintered and broke
Chicago’s growing inventory of RED digital camera ownership has been enlarged by the recent purchase of the new RED Epic-M by director of photography Christopher Gearhart’s Lakeview Productions.
JOE KEEFE of Long Tail Media Group is producing fridaynitebYtes, a streaming comedy sketch series targeted to tween-and-teen internet users. The members contribute their sketch ideas and a professional
TWO TOP AWARD-WINNING CREATIVES, Ken Erke and Matt Marcus, joined the Chicago office of R/GA, called advertising’s most creative interactive agency, as executive creative directors to help bolster
JOYCE KILBURG, the Illinois Film Office’s diversity officer, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the taxi she was riding crashed into a tree. She was heading home
A strong motivation for the abrupt firing in March of two enormously popular DePaul Digital Cinema teachers was offered by a tenured DePaul University professor, who also criticized the
Director Jaime Mariscal’s first feature, “Welcome Back to the Barrio,” won the Best Chicago Made film in the just-ended Latino Film Festival.
The story is about college
Neil Kocsis’ directorial debut, the comedy feature “Sketch,” is the first co-production between David Miller’s Mindlight Films and his wife Michelle De Long’s Mimi Productions.
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OPTIMUS ADDED MATT DALY as visual effects director Jan. 18, as part of its graphics department restructuring. He’d been Digital Kitchen’s visual effects director.
A leading improviser and comic actor, David Pasquesi has appeared in films including “The Fugitive” and “Father of the Bride,” and Harold Ramis’ “Groundhog Day” and “Stuart Saves His Family.”
Matt Pletcher of Baby Galigo Films said he’s weeks away from signing financing deals worth $10 million to shoot two films here this summer and fall.
USAMA ALSHAIBI won the Tribeca Film Festival’s All Access Creative Promise Award for Documentary Feature for his in-progress doc “Nice Bombs,” a chronicle of Alshaibi’s return with his father to
Saving $125,800 and firing two people is hardly the answer to Wisconsin’s $1.6 billion state budget deficit. But killing off the 19-year-old Wisconsin film office to save money?a bureau that’s
Chicago’s three Tony Award winning theatre companies are ramping up the star power for the opening shows of the season. The smallest of the