In a move designed to further integrate creativity at the start of a project with high-end graphics technology, Swell named Mike Czerniuk creative director of Bazooka, Swe...
FEATURE IN THE WORKS. Not only is Jerry Rose's Total Living Network staff of 70 now ensconced in new $18 million Aurora headquarters, but Rose and his company, Christian C...
"Batman" flew back to London Aug. 22 and downtown streets are back to normal after intense movie action was packed into a relatively short three week schedule. Chica...
Lakeshore Productions' internationally-flavored feature "Wicker Park" has opened in theatres to lukewarm reviews. The movie is an adaptation of a French screenplay originally se...
DVD content developers Sock Puppet Studios have launched their first original brand with "The Doodlebugs," a half-hour animated educational series targeted for children ages 2-6...
After Pakistani immigrant Shahpara Sayeed was burned to death by her husband in his cab on the North Side of Chicago on Aug. 24, 2000, filmmaker Satish Menon was struck by...
Chicago Access Network Television ? CAN TV ? is in serious trouble. Money trouble. And 21 years of service could end unless the Chicago City Council is persuaded otherwi...
Chicago is going to be the next place for hip-hop, predicted director Yusef Hood, whose hip-hop DVD documentary "State2daLake" was just released and his South Side Hood Films is...
Jerry Bryant, who produced one of the first local HD shoots for a Blink-182 performance on his "JBTV" series a few years back, is in the midst of fully upgrading his River North...
Ytasha Womack, a writer and producer of Sean Long's recently released Xenon Entertainment documentary "Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake?" will screen her narrative debut for Chicago ...
The Moonlight Caf? in Bucktown Thursday night was packed solid with nearly 200 filmmakers who came to honor the talents of Chicago's seven contenders who made it into the upper ...
Over the years, corporate writer/producer Lynn Sanders of Winnetka-based Park Avenue Productions was asked to write and produce tributes for weddings, fundraisers, anniversaries...
Former dramatic and documentary freelance producer/editor Bob Schneiger was named VP/chief creative officer of Towers Productions, Chicago's biggest documentary TV production co...
Chicago's answer to NAB, albeit in a smaller forum that's easier to get around, is Swiderski Electronics' annual Technology Expo that brings more than 75 leading tech names to t...
WHEW, OPRAH STAYS PUT. The tension's over as to whether she would or wouldn't opt out of TV and Chicago at the end of her current contract. But we can relax. Oprah is not going...
Post Effects is shoring up its capabilities with the addition of director/cameraman John Wassel, an L.A. veteran and specialist in dialog/performance. Wassel said that his new ...
After a seven month search to fill the vacancy, Columbia College named 15-year Hollywood entertainment executive Jon S. Katzman as the director of its popular five-week Semester...
With the new Kaiser Permanente commercial rolling out nationally, you can add "spot director" to actor James Woods' lengthy and impressive film credits. Woods has been maki...
TIMECODE MECHANICS is releasing a preliminary DVD of their biblical apocalyptic thriller "The 4th Beast: Mask of the Antichrist" Aug. 14. The DV feature, shot by director Nathy...
Local underground auteur James Fotopoulos screens his suburban gothic feature "The Nest" in its Chicago debut at the Chicago Underground Film Festival Aug. 22.Fotopoulos continu...
