COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER STEVE SAMLER chalks up another award with his Best Score/Soundtrack win from the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival, the virtual festival that honors independent filmmakers and writers.
The 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of — ah — Creativity ended a couple of weeks ago. But the world’s most prestigious and most closely-watched annual ad competition still haunts
FILMMAKER ADRIANNA MCKINLEY’S character-driven sci-fi short drama, Breathers, based on the Breathers comic book by Justin Madson, is in postproduction being readied for two local film festivals this fall.
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A REASON WHY Illinois loves those big Hollywood films that show up every year or so. The Michael Bay-directed Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon, dropped $24 million here last
DIGITAL KITCHEN has brought some Cannes glory to Chicago. The Chicago-based collective of more than 100 artists, designers and filmmakers walked off Wednesday with the Grand Prix in the design
GRITTY CHICAGO AUTHOR NELSON ALGREN (Man with the Golden Arm, Chicago, City on the Make) will come to life in the first feature-length documentary about him – provided the producers
THE LATE MICKEY GROSSMAN’S many friends, colleagues and clients can share their stories and feelings about him on tape, courtesy of his good friends, casting directors Mickie Paskal and Jennifer
LEO BURNETT WORLDWIDE was not only the “Agency of the Year” at the International Advertising Awards in New York earlier this month, but it won a record 35 awards, including
When Tamale, an interdisciplinary artist and comedian, invited filmmakers C. Bryne and Nadia Oussenko to document her bid for the crown in the 25th annual International Ms. Leather fetish pageant,
New York’s giant commercials industry tends to be all wrapped up in itself and when it’s spring awards time, the predictable winners are members of New York/Los Angeles companies and
ON FRIDAY, the state Senate unanimously passed SB398 that pushes the Illinois tax credit sunset 10 years hence to 2021 — and who knows what can happen by then. All
Movies and music will be brought together when 70 films from more than 20 countries will screen April 14-17 at CIMMfest – the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival —
“A real-life ‘Hurt Locker’ with more tension” is the reaction audiences have had to “A Perfect Soldier,” says producer/editor Jonathan
Mike Diedrich was videotaping outside a Cubs-Pirates game in 2004 when there were two home runs in the first inning. “There were four or five ballhawks out there,” Diedrich says.
“They
“PLAYBOY,” THE NBC PILOT, about the start of the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, about the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963 (at the site
The career of Malik Yusef, Chicago’s spoken word poet, professionally known as “The Wordsmyth,” continues to ascend to the top of the game.
His work was recognized Sunday night at the
Laura Szymber’s Axiom Megamedia is working with ESPN to develop a series of Monday Night Football promos for the cable network’s 2011 NFL season.
The full-service production company was
Behind the title of John Davies’ feature-length doc, “Phunny Business: A Black Comedy,” is a story of “what happens when you combine comedy, race and Chicago politics,” about
Awards went to Chicago’s most talented entertainers in 45 categories at the recent star-studded 30th Annual Chicago Music Awards (CMA) that celebrated the city’s vibrant music scene.
“Chicago is
WHAT A WEEK this is turning out to be ? crammed with activities, information, good food, fun ? a fitting climax to what’s turned out to be a
