Jeremy Pinckert’s Explore Media of South Bend assembled a team with many Chicago players to produce the University of Notre Dame’s 30-second “institutional message” that airs
“CHICAGO FIRE” EXECS – show co-creator/EP Michael Brandt and EP/director Joe Chappelle – will present the top awards to the winners of the Best of Midwest Awards Tuesday, Dec. 4
The third feature-length project from Reid Brody and Bill Ryan’s 2DS Productions has wrapped two weeks of local filming and has begun postproduction at Filmworkers Club
Commonwealth Edison’s best kept money-saving secret is hereby revealed: A film, broadcast or theatre company switching to LED and other types of energy efficient lights is entitled to valuable cash
With the Nov. 6 election right around the corner, ad/marketing specialists, Third Street Advertising, is doing its part to encourage young people to vote.
A RECORD BREAKER? Eight Chicago and L.A.-New York production companies are making September one of the busiest months of the year for commercial shoots on Chicago locations and more companies
GRITTY CHICAGO LOCATIONS are an integral part of a 90-second web video made for Team Nike and the World Festival of Basketball in recognition of Chicago’s
LIQUID 9 CELEBRATES ITS LAUNCH as a new Chicago production company with separate post and music divisions, at an Open House Thursday, 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 in new space
Jack Lawrence Mayer, Sarra Jahedi and Ed Hausman were a year out of the University of Chicago when they created the comedy pilot Single Long, based in part on a
Among the achievements of four-time Emmy winner, video activist and documentarian Tom Weinberg is his massive Media Burn Independent Video Archive, which boasts the largest collection anywhere of Studs
If you happened to see an overturned car perched on an embankment at Wacker and Madison, threatening to lay waste to Lower Wacker, you have Joe Chappelle to thank.
The longtime
NEW YORK’S 59E59 THEATERS continue to provide welcoming off-Broadway accommodations for shows that originated in Chicago. Bruce Graham’s The Outgoing Tide, which had its world premiere in 2011
Like the recently revealed Chicago Cultural Plan for expanding the arts, here is a film professional’s vision of how to move Chicago into the top tier of entertainment production.
Chicago needs
For the 11th year, the 48 Hour Film Project returns to Chicago starting the week of July 27 as filmmakers battle it out to complete an
As the Onion media empire relocates its headquarters from New York to Chicago in July, it arrives bearing gifts: three new webisode series. They’ve been filming at Foundation Content and
Only a couple weeks ago we were talking about the slow but sure effort to establish a real and lasting sense of community within Chicago’s advertising industry. In large part
CHICAGO AGENCY APPEARANCES on the prestigious AICP Show Reel or agency honors list were virtually non-existent. The 21st annual AICP Show and the NEXT Awards, was held June 12 at
THREE LOCAL LEADING LADIES were named among 10 actors around the country as 2012 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows. E. Faye Butler, Susan Moniz, and Hollis Resnik join seven other actors from around
BE GOOD, TODD LOOBY’S INDIE FEATURE, produced by his Obrigado Productions in 2011, will enjoy a full week’s screening at the Gene Siskel Film
Next September, The School of the Art Institute (SAIC) will be one of nine major institutions participating in the Sony Digital Media Academy (SDMA) that will
