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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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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Organizers of the seventh annual Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, will be accepting submissions through Saturday, March 1, 2014.
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Bensenville, IL, resident Joe Lester, a make-up artist with The ImageWorks FX of Chicago, has passed away at age 44.
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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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How interesting a twist of fate will this be? It seems our work has value to the team behind Explore C-U, a new UI-based project intended to curate local history and art in an easily accessible and interactive manner through Web browser and cell phone. “Yes,” we say!
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Once again, we feel behind the times in our own reporting niche but that will not stop us from encouraging you last-minute to support Urbana Basement Sessions, engage in “Dinner and Bikes,” and revel in the success of Pens to Lens!
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If you think we’re going to dredge up the story about Brendan Fraser and co. filming the Harvard graduation scene in WITH HONORS on the UIUC Main Quad in 1993 … well, we’ll get to that one later. Right now, let’s talk real life instead of reel life.
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The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the panels to be held in conjunction with the fifteenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.
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It’s time for the Champaign-Urbana community to give itself a boost in supporting the integration of film and media production into our very fabric of being. That includes teaching the kids that making movies is alright.
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Investigate the entomological tonight, Saturday, February 23, 2013, when the annual Insect Fear Film Festival presented by the University of Illinois EGSA welcomes Chris Carter, Darin Morgan, and a pair of X-FILES into the fold.
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Anticipating the arrival tomorrow of the one and only Cory McAbee (STINGRAY SAM, CRAZY & THIEF), we provide a preview of his Champaign-Urbana Film Society organized visit and present a vintage appreciation of THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT direct from the MICRO-FILM vault.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we filter thoughts on a film commission, dispense the skinny on various deadlines and doings, and marvel at the meticulous wealth of movies now playing/renting near you!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we sort of apologize for posting late again, point you to articles involving William Shatner and THE DAILY SHOW, and present a (slightly outdated) itinerary of movies now playing/renting near you!
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Shepherded by Shatterglass Studios of Champaign along with concerned Champaign-Urbana movie-making citizens, the CU Film Society proceeded with its “soft launch” last weekend by revealing their Web site.
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