C-U Blogfidential

Urbana filmmaker Johnny Robinson and crew would love to see you put on your best summertime threads and appear as extras later tonight, Saturday, March 22, 2014, in a concert scene for his feature THE GARDEN OF CHLOE.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: When projects pop up from nowhere, we simply must share! Behold the covers to the full-sized and mini editions of The Popcorn Farm, a new low-budget literary magazine launched in Springfield, Illinois.

We could wile away the winter by camping in front of the telly, Skyping cutesy-like with our friends, or sleeping lots more than usual. But, no. NOOOOO-O-O-O-O. We have too much Confidential action on our hands to be mere Champaign-Urbana mortals. Qualifiers ahead!

Hear ye, hear ye! A new Roger Ebert story completely unrelated to Russ Meyer will hit the big screen later this year, and YOU can take part in its creation! Read on for information on tonight’s auditions for THE THINKING MOLECULES OF TITAN!

WILL Channel 12, the PBS affiliate based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is reviving a previous collaborative project with the production of the special program WE ARE MONTICELLO. If you are a resident of Monticello, you can be involved!

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!

This may not constitute a “scene” as we’ve been experiencing lately in the C-U, but at the least WE HAD THIS BAND and THE GRAVEYARD MENACE bring some fresh filmmaking blood to Bloomington-Normal!

In the first edition of C-U Blogfidential’s NEW all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about Shatterglass Studios achievements, Sine Fine Films activity, “Cinema-Scoping” resurrection, and the Roger Ebert documentary!

The former White Horse Inn building in Campustown looks to be saturated with Seventies kitsch this weekend when Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions moves in to film a disco scene for ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1977. Can you dig it enough to show up and help out?

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we highly suggest you offer help to your movie neighbors, secretly hope you follow some media links, and absolutely trust you’ll seek out the movies now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we wish you Happy Holidays because we can, we share an imminent need for Camera Operators on a downstate Illinois indie, and we stash mistletoe amongst the movies now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we encourage you to act on ACT YOUR AGE, thaw out a bit about SNOWBOUND, relay a potential paying gig pitched by Bogdan Heretoui, and slightly massage the movies now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we wish the fastest recovery to Skip Huston, investigate who killed Pac-Man, ask one final time for reader essays, and bask in the glow of movies now playing/renting near you!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” it’s little surprise “The Short Form” rules again with items about Jason Lindsey Photography, Michael Wiese Productions, a need for DP in Springfield, and the movies now playing/renting near you!

Sanford Hess of the Art Theater in Champaign, IL, offered a presentation on Sunday, August 14, 2011, outlining the possible business paths that could be taken to keep the Art running. Herein lies his proposed solution.