WINDY CITY WEST’S PARTY Monday night in L.A. was the smash hit everyone expected from Brenda Sexton, whose Chicago-L.A. Link brought together 400 folks with Chicago
After eight years, 11 features, a patented Exquisite Corpse collaboration model, and dozens of supported productions and workshops, nonprofit film incubator Split Pillow will shutter Dec. 31.
Video production and creative web firm AKA Media Inc., is Chicago’s sole privately held media company to make Inc. Magazine’s 2010 list of 5,000 fastest growing companies. The
Kartemquin Films will become the first documentary company to receive the Newberry Library’s 25-year-old Altgeld Freedom of Speech Award at a ceremony July 31.
“Kartemquin has
Possibly the first comedy to shoot anywhere in stereoscopic 3D will be directed by Hollywood executive turned Columbia College professor this July in Chicago.
Kevin Cooper makes
Christian TV producer Total Living Network, which sold its Aurora studio complex in a leaseback deal last December, is aggressively retooling for a transition to producing short-form content for the
Headlining IFC/Chicago’s Producers Series May 1-2 is Philadelphia filmmaker Lance Weiler, an innovator in, and advocate of transmedia, an extension of storytelling across multiple platforms that encourages audiences to build
It’s an understatement to say that it was Chicago’s night at the 2010 Hugo International Awards for Television Excellence.
DDB, Draftfcb and Leo Burnett
GARY, INDIANA WILL DOUBLE for the Urkaine in “Transformers 3,” which is a welcome twist as all too many times European cities are passed off as U.S. locales,
Recording artist Levi Kreis and Sundance filmmaker Davidson Cole combined talents to produce a music video that achieved the #1 Most Viewed rank on MTVmusic.com last week. Kreis’
“Let’s Create New Media in Chicago” is a fast-growing meet-up group convening every other month that provides a setting to learn from one another and collaborate on new media projects.
With Vince Vaughn in town Wednesday through Friday to direct the mini-pilot for his half-hour comedy, “Firsts,” the biggest pilot season ever to descend on Chicago has begun.
CHICAGOANS AT SUNDANCE expected this weekend at Park City, Utah include Fox TV’s Robin Robinson and Ch. 7’s Sylvia Perez, providing TV coverage of the
Hollywood actor Casey Siemaszko grew up deeply immersed in Chicago’s Polish community, performing with his parents’ Polish dance troupe. And Siemaszko’s father Konstanty fought for the Polish underground
One of Chicago’s claims to Oscar fame is the fact that the golden statuettes are made here. But a lesser-known Oscar connection is that the Chicago International Children’s Film
VARIETY NAMED CHICAGO the number four filming location on a list of “10 Greatest Locations in North America,” in a special issue published next month. We rank
A “mini Convergence” networking event, hosted by a trio of new media content providers, is a first effort “to build an active, flexible new media community where people can help
Infused with a batch of proven new talent from Dallas, Vitamin, the digital media arm of Filmworkers Club, has been relaunched and revitalized with plans for expansion into broadcast
“September:The Chicago Convergence Month” offers the riches of many industr-related events to TCC’s 2,600 members, as a scaled-down Summit originally planned for Sept. 21-23.
“In
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
