Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The 15th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival will give the Midwest its first public look at the documentary HOOPESTON, produced by New York-based indie SYNYDYNE, this Thursday, October 30, 2008.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
PROCEED AND BE BOLD!, a new documentary by former Illini Film & Video stalwart Laura Zinger and Brown Finch Films, will be shown Saturday, October 25, 2008, at 7 p.m. in the Armory Building on the University of Illinois campus.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The good news: March 3, 2009, is the release date for MICRO-FILM 8. The bad news: We’ve decided to shelve The CineMicroGraph after one issue.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Have you read Roger Ebert’s reaction to our October 17, 2008, item regarding LincolnFest, or Jay Rosenstein’s comments about our September 21, 2008, item pertaining to UI-7?
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
COBB FIELD, the latest production from Callan Films of Effingham, IL, will have its local premiere at the Rosebud Theatre in Effingham on Monday, October 20, 2008.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the signing of veteran actor Hal Holbrook to appear at LincolnFest in downtown Champaign on March 12-15, 2009. Also, your editor bitches about ill-chosen words by well-meaning people.
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Interview on Champaign Web site SmilePolitely.com with Joshua Caudle, the new owner of the Lorraine Theatre in Hoopeston, IL.
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at Shatterglass Studios in Urbana, IL, on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Help the crew of Brainsmart Productions abscond with moolah to beautify WEREWOLF CEMETERY: Issue 4, currently filming in an abandoned movie theater near you, by attending the Brainsmart show at Mike n’ Molly’s in downtown Champaign on Monday, October 13, 2008.
Posted in Production Updates, Public Events |
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Article in Bloomington daily The Pantagraph about the taping of a television special at U.S. Cellular Coliseum in downtown Bloomington, IL, called SKATING FOR LIFE BENEFITING SUSAN G. KOMEN FOR THE CURE, that will air on the NBC network Saturday, October 25, 2008.
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