WHO SHE IS: As Women in Film/Chicago’s essential Career Development chair, Lisa Wilson and her committee plan and organize some 30 events each year?
OPRAH’S AUDIENCE will soon be able to leave the studio and walk across the street to her new fashion boutique at 57 N. Carpenter.
The 4,500-sq.
A city which prides itself on culture and sport has now lost its advertising edge, its competitive juices. Are the foreign ad agencies on the brink of buying our baseball
HANK NEUBERGER, Chicago’s sound guru, is currently in Palm Springs where he will head a 90-member crew, including lots of Chicago guys, to produce a three day
“THE DARK KNIGHT,” Warner Bros.’ latest “Batman” installment could be “the largest single production ever shot in Chicago,” says the CFO’s Rich Moskal.
A SLATE OF CURENT AND UPCOMING FEATURES are bringing plenty of spring sunshine are making a lot of people happy campers.
WBBM news anchor and radio journalist Felicia Middlebrooks will screen her powerful, prize-winning 52-minute documentary, “Somebody’s Child: The Redemption of Rwanda” March 31, at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema.
WHO SHE IS: Jorie Landfear, an in-house commercial producer with Bally Total Fitness since 2005.
Based out of Bally’s Cumberland corporate office near O’Hare, Landfear often
WHO SHE IS: Susana DeSantiago, owner/president of DeSanti Talents, bought the multi-cultural Salazar & Navas Talent Agency a year ago in February 2006 from Myrna Salazar, who retired from the
Chicago’s status as a talent center has been elevated to the national level with bi-coastal Innovative Artists’ purchase of Sharon Wottrich’s 17-year old Voices Unlimited.
Tax incentive legislation passed the state Senate last week 58-0, a good sign that legislators are serious about boosting revenues from increased film production and vying with increasingly competitive states
Pete Schwaba joins the growing ranks of independent filmmakers choosing self-release over unsatisfactory distribution offers, when he opens his debut feature “The Godfather of Green Bay” in theaters March 24.
Nikki Weiss, the hard-working rep for A-list production companies and directors, has become executive producer of a documentary that she’s wanted to make for nine years.
The
“PRISON BREAK” has broken through the ratings so strongly that Fox TV has given the go-ahead for nine more episodes for a total of 22. The producers are
Richter Brothers Studios is getting ready to send its just-completed, high-end interactive CD to a replicator that will produce 1 million discs for grocery store distribution in October.
Aspiring filmmaker Adriana Rivera has some basic questions that the Reel is happy to answer, and hopes it also helps you.
Rivera : I’d love to
THE ONLY U.S. MEDIA LION awarded at Cannes this year went to Oprah for the much talked-about giveaway of more than 200 Pontiac G6 cars to Oprah Winfrey’s studio
Matt Pletcher of Baby Galigo Films said he’s weeks away from signing financing deals worth $10 million to shoot two films here this summer and fall.
The film industry was bent on recommending improvements to the Illinois Film Production Tax incentive, while legislators focused hard on the progress of diversity hiring as central to a revised
Kartemquin Films is teaming with Tribune music critic Howard Reich to document the life of Reich’s mother, Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich.
Howard Reich approached Kartemquin a year
