A new movie show is about to land on the (snow) banks of Champaign-Urbana in the effort to freak us out … for fun! The Krampusnacht Freeky Film Festival will fill up SoDo Theatre on December 7, 2019.
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A decade is a long while to be pulling one’s own weight in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, but the New Art Film Festival has managed such a feat. Get involved in marking the milestone by entering your film in Year 10!
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Even though the 21st iteration of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival will not arrive until April, fans can get an early look at the first announced selection, A YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN, direct from Poland if they so choose.
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Illinois Public Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced a new program to air on WILL television that will showcase films about the Midwest experience, REEL MIDWEST.
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Based on an unanimous vote by shareholders, the Art Theater Co-op will become a non-profit venue after it is absorbed into the Art Film Foundation of Champaign, IL. Click to read the press release!
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The Image Comics title “Revival” will become a low-budget feature film project for Shatterglass Films of Champaign and shoot in the Midwest the first half of 2018. Read on for the full announcement!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, all the C-U consumers of CONSUMED will gather at the Art Theater Co-op to get a first look at this locally shot, out-of-town indie. Will you be one of them?
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The Drunken Zombie International Festival is calling for entries to fill the schedule of their eighth annual horror film event on March 11-12, 2016. Deadline is January 31, 2016, for those who are interested!
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Don’t make us whip out a dose of the underground on you, dearest readers … oops, too late! Behold, thoughts and deets pertaining to this week’s Chicago Underground Film Festival!
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The eighth annual Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival will take place March 23-25, 2015, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, featuring indie films FISH TANK and MOSQUITA Y MARI.
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