MOVIE AND TELEVISION STARS will abound this month as they headline gala fund-raisers to support the city’s culturally important visual arts organizations.
It’s an understatement to say that it was Chicago’s night at the 2010 Hugo International Awards for Television Excellence.
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Noted entertainment attorneys, Tom Leavens, Peter Strand and Jerry Glover, also noted for their contributions to non-profit arts organizations, have formed a LaSalle St. law firm bearing their names.
“The Street Stops Here,” TeamWorks Media’s documentary about Jersey City’s impoverished and athletically dominant St. Anthony’s High School basketball team, has its national broadcast premiere March 31 at 9 p.m.
Now that he’s found his “voice” again, Roger Ebert’s first television show since 2006 will be produced at the hi-def studios of educational station and PBS affiliate WYCC/Ch. 20
WELCOME BACK, ROGER! It looks like Roger Ebert is returning to television with a new syndicated movie review show from Chicago, expected to be taped
WYCC-Ch. 20 is seeking relationships with independent producers, in which WYCC can serve as the presenting station for co-productions to air on Ch. 20 and to offer the program to
ELAINE MADSEN, the Emmy-winning producer, writer, and longtime Chicagoan, appears at the Beverly Arts Center on Nov. 22 with a free screening of her documentary “I Know a
Tod Lending is delighted to be selling his library of acclaimed documentaries on Fetcher Media, a new DVD-on-Demand service that mini-launched Wednesday in conjunction with the airing of Lending’s latest
COMMERCIALS RULE this month, as a slew of bicoastal production companies are here or en route to shoot national spots on city streets with local crews and
DOCUMENTARIAN KEN BURNS comes to Chicago Sept. 16 to speak at a luncheon and presentation for his new book, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” at the Union
“NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET” began shooting last week at Elk Grove high school in that suburb, moving onto Hersey high in Arlington Heights. “Elm Street” producers cleverly
In May, 2006 then-newsmen Harvey Moshman and Chuck Coppola came across “one of those stories you live for and can’t pass up” when they covered a commemoration of a lost
When Oscar-nominated producer/director Tod Lending needed to improve audio on his latest project ?- an hourlong, $1.5 million doc, “The Principal Story,” scheduled for a “POV” episode on PBS this
Since March is the month of St. Patrick’s Day, it’s fitting that WTTW’s March Pledge Month will feature an original doc, “Irish Stories,” and for good measure, Chicago native and
HMS Media, the Emmy-winning arts programming specialists, is looking forward to one of its biggest and busiest years in its 21 years of business.
Between now and
ZIG/CHICAGO MAY ZAG with the loss of creative director Kevin Lynch come early February, when he leaves the Chicago branch of Toronto-based Zig. Two years
THE SALE OF EQUIPMENT AND FIXTURES at the Avenue Edit auction earlier month “did very well,” although auctioneer Paul Finn of the Boston-based auction house could
Cameraman Joseph Tolitano has had a busy year. He spent the summer shooting a PBS series about a horse whisperer, he and his wife welcomed twins in September,
“Kate,” one of 78 “reporters” vying for five finalist positions, is the highest rated candidate in the competition, and the only “reporter” who actually has been reporting on presidential
