C-U Blogfidential

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about first-time showings of WEREWOLF CEMETERY IV, REVOLTING, and ONE ROACH FOR SEAMUS along with an MTV casting call, award-winning spec spots, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about opportunities on Dreamscape’s MY DOG, THE SPACE TRAVELER, a video job at The217.com, the schedule for the Route 66 Film Festival, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Yes, there’s more than enough material available to fill up a second C-U Confidential Local Movie Show this coming April at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign. Silly naysayers.

Local video editor Alexander Mejia is looking for a few good PAs to crew his spec shoot for a Nikon filmmaking competition.

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking for a candidate to fill the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies.

You’ve heard of speed dating, yes? Well, then, how about an exciting round of “speed casting” for the indie film FINDING VIRGINIA, starting at 5 p.m. today, Friday, October 16, 2009, at the Capital Area Career Center in Springfield, IL? Madness!

Thomas C. Card and Pounded Pavement Productions need to find a few good film people for before and behind the camera. Christopher DeSouza and Next Process Films need to find a few good film people for behind and (presumably) in front of the camera. Your humble editor and C-U Blogfidential suggest that you investigate their needs.

The producer of local indie film, THE ACT OF SEPARATION, and talent coordinator of high-grade haunted house attraction in Pesotum, IL, need your acting chops. Stat.

Predestined Arts & Entertainment of Springfield is casting extras for its current short film production, THIS LIFE AIN’T EASY, needed during the next two Saturdays, July 25 and August 1, 2009.

If you didn’t show last time, you’ve earned a pass. Make good by volunteering your services as a LEADING LADIES extra tomorrow, Monday, June 22, at Franklin Middle School in Champaign. Don’t be square!

Have you yet to give good face to diamond DP Pete Biagi and crew on the set of LEADING LADIES? Extras have one last chance to impress the rest this Saturday, June 20, 2009, at Franklin Middle School in Champaign. Be there!

Aching to give good face for a high-energy, Hi-Def feature film project near you? Then look no further than LEADING LADIES!

Exercise your acting bug by playing a bar patron in the Mike Boedicker movie REVOLTING or auditioning for a role in the costume drama A DINNER WITH THE MAFIA, both taking place tomorrow, Saturday, February 21, 2009.

Chicago-based Premonition Pictures, which produced the student life cable-television drama ONE FINE DAY! in Champaign-Urbana, will return this spring to shoot a feature called A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW.

The makers of the local independent film REVOLTING are looking for extras to fill up the Kathryn Randolph Theater on Sunday, November 16, 2008, for a scene.