Search Results for: Chicago Auto Show

The 48 Hour Film Project is back in Chicago for the 12th year of weekend filmmaking and director / editor Jerry Vasilatos of Nitestar Productions is helming it for the second year.

The winning short will compete for special prizes with 48HFP films from 130 cities around the world where more than 60,000 people will participate in the filmmaking weekend.

A meet-and-greet on Sunday, July 31 will launch Chicago’s 48HFP at the Music Box Lounge, which adjoins the Music Box Theatre, where all completed local films will be showcased.

“CHICAGOMADE” EVENTS will be on display at SXSW, March 11-16 in Austin, Texas, as the first-of-its-kind collaboration between DCASE (Dept. of Cultural Affairs & Special Effects), Choose Chicago and World Business Chicago. 

After more than two years in the works, Chicago Filmmakers on Friday closed on its purchase of the city-owned Chicago landmark firehouse in Edgewater and will start converting it into a center for diversity and literacy in media arts and major hub for the independent film community.

Fox TV is back in Chicago for another pilot season.  The network has ordered three exciting one-hour pilots to be produced here from March through April – one more than the network filmed here in 2015.

The past four years of city and state media and entertainment production has been the most profitable and exciting in the history of the film offices.

And 2015’s production stats, released by the Illinois Film and Chicago Film Offices within a day of each other, provide more evidence of continuing growth.

“Transformers” director Michael Bay will return to Chicago later this year to produce the fifth installment of his franchise, he told WGN’s Dean Richards.  But that’s only the tip of the iceberg!

Here’s what ReelChicago learned is ahead for our production market in the foreseeable future, all headquartering and filming at Cinespace.

WTTW/11 “CHICAGO TONIGHT” PRODUCERS overwhelmingly voted to become SAG-AFTRA members at a National Labor Relations Board election Dec. 18. They join 160,000 professionals in the national union.

The AICE Awards will celebrates their 15th anniversary in Chicago next spring, with the presentation taking place at Navy Pier, May 12, and the call for entries has gone out.  Deadline is Monday, Feb.

“There are two very different Chicagos that children can grow up in today. There is the world-class, opportunity-filled Chicago that many of us have been fortunate to give to our own kids,” says Rich Stoddart, CEO of Leo Burnett North America.

“And then there’s another Chicago, where access to so much of what we love about our city can be very, very distant.”

The advertising community’s involvement in Off the Street Club dates back to 1902 when Frank Thomas, president of FCB’s predecessor agency Lord & Thomas, made the first donation to a struggling, West Side club for kids and persuaded his advertising colleagues to join him.  

One year before Spike Lee began filming his widely hyped “Chiraq” in Chicago, local filmmaker William D.

Cutters Studios’ up-and-coming assistants were the big winners in AICE Chicago’s 14th  annual 2015 Camp Kuleshov Chicago trailer editing contest, going home with a total of five awards.

Writer/director Lucia Mauro’s second film and first feature “One Year Later,” currently in post, centers on Liz, a dedicated teacher of comparative literature, who struggles with her post-cancer life and changing priorities.

Eight legendary “garage bands” that came out of Chicago in the ‘60s and ‘70s will reunite at WTTW for a once-in-a-lifetime public television special, “Cornerstones of Rock: American Garage,” Friday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

The London-based 2015 Documentary Summit returns to Chicago for the first time since 2013 this weekend, Oct.

Elizabeth Collins, Odd Machine’s LA-based executive producer, has a short film screening in the 33rd Reeling: LGBTQ+ International Film Festival opening Thursday night, Sept. 17 through Sept. 24.

The spotlight will be on the best of Chicago advertising March 11 when the Chicago Advertising Federation hosts its annual awards gala at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

That sound clinking champagne glasses you hear is coming from the deservedly ecstatic producers, cast and crew of “Empire,” which bowed on Fox network Wednesday night to a 3.8 rating and 9.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings.

It’s goodbye to the action and excitement of “Transformers: Age of Extinction” (aka “T4’) on Saturday or Sunday when it ends three months of shooting in Chicago – one of the three sci-fi blockbusters that filmed here this spring and summer for release next summer.

Out of the 59 entries from among some of the top post companies in the 12^th annual International AICE Show, three editors from two post companies were selected as AICE finalists: Red Car’s Kevin O’Rourke, for Madison Museum of Contemporary Art spot and Utopic’s Ryan Gilbert and Joe Minich for NBC5’s “City,” both 60s.

The New Year starts on a positive note for brothers Jeff and Lee Faclis as their Resolution Digital Studios and Show Department companies emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed more than a year ago.   

A reorganization plan, effective Jan. 1, was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Northern Illinois.