C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We have yet another Dreamscape Cinema cover design to debut! For round three of the company’s 2012 outpouring, Vanguard Cinema releases key artwork that will adorn the national DVD release of ACT YOUR AGE on December 20.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Dark Maze Studios of Champaign lives by the sword of the ninja in one current series, SPACE NINJA, and one upcoming, NINJA THE MISSION FORCE, while exploring remakesploitation of Peckinpah in a new DEJA VIEW. Whew!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Once upon a time in 2010, Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions of Champaign produced a comedy-action short called ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1972 which eventually gave birth to ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1973 not too long ago in 2011. Got it? Good.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: In this third and final installment featuring images culled from our archives pertaining to the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond, we take a peek behind-the-scenes and then some!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We interrupt our flow of old image business with something brand new – the DVD cover artwork for LEADING LADIES, coming soon from Wolfe Video!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: In this second of three installments featuring images culled from our archives pertaining to the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond, we highlight (mostly older) random activity!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Ah, the ephemera of the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond we sometimes forget we have… In this first of three installments featuring images culled from our archives, student bodies of area colleges represent!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get groovy with the ghoulies invading this week’s installment, in which we posit scientifical evidence that local-ish movies such as THE WINDOW INTO TIME and DOUBLE DOSE OF TERROR!! really exist.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Although media activists Stephanie Stean and Paul Holze have relocated from the C-U to Tucson, Arizona, we’re updating the status of their life-in-South Africa documentary, THE STORY OF HAPPINESS, including what it has to do with YouTube’s push to propagate original content! Also, we like them lots, so just try and stop us.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: With one public display of C-U cinema in the books and another coming up very soon, we recall the 10th anniversary of our original attempt at presenting movies and reveal a failed bid at bonus street cred for our not-ready-for-prime-time efforts.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We provide a final blast of New Art Film Festival madness with this still image gallery and a thank-you to everyone who made the NAFF a big success last night at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Recent C-U arrivals Bogdan Heretoiu and Catrina Choate-Heretoiu make their first artistic mark as a local filmmaking team with the latter’s “dance for camera” thesis project, PROBABILITY OF POSSIBILITIES.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: One more time we dredge up a Dreamscape Cinema cover design, this for the national DVD release of DISCONNECT, and then relate a tale of two trailers issued by distributor Osiris Entertainment!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Our friend Alaric Rocha of Blue Bassoon Pictures in Chicago has completed his Super 8 movie short, WINTER, which he and a local crew filmed in the Decatur outskirts a year ago.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We collect, embed, and dissect a handful of recent videos made by current and former members of Illini Film & Video at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!