A completely unofficial prelude to the wonders one might watch at the New Art Film Festival next month, the local film “double feature” at Figure One in downtown Champaign on Saturday, March 22, 2014 aims to educate and inspire.
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The 2014 Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival is underway on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Read on for a preview of the selections and overarching themes of the event!
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Mr. JaPan goes flashbacking again as he prepares for the “Cut & Paste” ‘zine culture symposium at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during which he will participate as panelist, commentator, and cut-and-paste fiend. Hand him that glue, quick!
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For deep thought on class issues and contemporary film, visit the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Champaign later tonight, Monday, February 24, 2014, for an appearance by socialist movie critic and “The Sky Between the Leaves” author David Walsh.
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Is pest control worth the pesticide we add to the growing produce we eventually harvest and eat? The Insect Fear Film Festival asks this and other related questions tonight, Saturday, February 22, 2014, beginning at 7 p.m.!
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Can we see a show of hands? You can still count the number of New Art Film Festivals on that hand as the fifth edition approaches on Sunday, April 13, 2014, at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL! Start entering those films now!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Does your child have great imagination? Can she or he put it into words? Then, she or he might have fun writing a short film script for the 2014 Pens to Lens competition sponsored by the Champaign-Urbana Film Society!
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The Count von Count would have a field day here on C-U Blogfidential today… ONE thoughtful teen comedy! ONE psychological drama! ONE small-town collage! And two, TWO food documentaries! That equals FIVE local movies premiering in TEN days’ time! Ah ha ha!
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EXTRA! Interview with the general manager of the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL!
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Time to make some noise about ourselves, dearest readers! Coming soon are the Drunken Zombie Film Festival in Peoria on November 1-2, 2013, which we’re co-sponsoring, and the new Art Theater history book, which your editor designed. Look out for them and the seventh issue of C-U Confidential, too!
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Both Allen Hall/Unit One and the University Laboratory High School at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign welcome veteran documentary producer Frederick Marx to town this week. Events include screenings of his films, JOURNEY FROM ZANSKAR and HOOP DREAMS.
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Dormant C-U group Third Stone returns to life for a one-off rock-and-roll throw down at Fat City Bar and Grill in Champaign, IL, later tonight, Friday, September 20, 2013. We’ll show and tell you how movie-making has infiltrated their storied history!
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Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at Shatterglass Studios just south of downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Focus will be on the makers of the feature HOUSE OF THADDEUS!
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So, apparently we have time for pitching retro culture and pretty girls via Bachelor Pad Magazine and bitching about whatever irks on the Damian Duffy Hates Everything podcast, but not draft new material for C-U Blogfidential. Well, except for this. We’re confused. You?
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about THE GARDEN OF CHLOE auditions, the passing of Gary Gardner, on-line Pens to Lens videos, the Avon Theatre’s new little sister, and film contests galore!
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