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...
Michigan Avenue could get a much needed big business boost if luck is with Cramer-Krasselt pitching the $200 million Kia Motors America account, and if Arby's places its $15 mil...
ReelChicago.com is hosting a get-together Thursday, Aug. 12 for the seven filmmakers who did Chicago proud in the 2004 17,000-entry Project Greenlight competition. Come...
Seven films by Chicago filmmakers out of 25 features, documentaries and shorts will be screened at the 10th annual Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Aug. 7...
Hollywood reached out to West Chicago-based Syntax Media to edit a feature called "Working Title," written and directed by Robert Foreman and John Norton of Westbridge Ent...
After graduating from Full Sail, engineer Drew Weir had the opportunity to intern with famous studio architect John Storyk's New York firm. Years later, Weir hired Walter...
Minnesota filmmaker and Columbia College alumnus Steven J. Foley is returning to his native Chicago for the local premiere of his debut feature, the HD-cam romance "Strang...
Patrick Read Johnson starts production in late August on his autobiographical coming of age story "5-25-77," set on the day "Star Wars" was released.Joe Pantoliano and Carri...
Lawrence Edwards, owner and operator of the Biograph Theater for more than three decades, has sold the historic film house to Victory Gardens Theater. Victory Gardens wil...
