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Coming Soon: Sixth annual AEMS Asian Film Festival @ Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/3-5/08), THE VISITOR @ Normal Theater, Normal, IL (10/4-5/08), IPRH Film Series @ 62 Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Urbana, IL (10/9-11/13/08), THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW @ Avon Theater, Decatur, IL (10/24-25/08), and Fourth annual Tournees French Film Festival @ Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (10/31-11/6/08).

Help the crew of Brainsmart Productions make a mint to embellish 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, September 29, 2008.

Bruce Campbell, man of action and slayer of Deadites, will accompany his new film MY NAME IS BRUCE to the Avon Theater in downtown Decatur, IL, on Monday, December 1, 2008. Be there or be very, very square.

Help the crew of Brainsmart Productions scrape up even more cash to dump into 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, September 22, 2008.

This weekend, the Illinois Independent Film Festival hosts THE LIFELINE: TRILOGY and NEAR MISS up in St. Charles, IL, while the Route 66 Film Festival welcomes SAMSARA 2 and THE TRANSIENT over in Springfield, IL. Why are you still sitting in front of your computer right now?

Help the crew of Brainsmart Productions scrape up some cash to dump into 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 Sunday, September 14, 2008.

Coming Soon: Champaign Movie Makers meeting @ Shatterglass Studios, Urbana, IL (9/9/08), Beyond Normal Films “Choice” series @ Normal Theater, Normal, IL (9/9-28/08), IPRH Film Series @ 62 Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, Urbana, IL (9/11-11/13/08), and “Politics at the Movies” class @ Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (9/11-10/30/08).

University of Illinois alumnus and veteran documentary filmmaker Frederick Marx will speak about and present clips from his work at the Channing-Murray Foundation in Urbana, IL, on Sunday, September 7, 2008.

Urbana independent film studio Essence Films will premiere their dramatic short PRELUDE at the Onarga Theater in Onarga, IL, on Thursday, August 7, 2008, at 7 p.m.

Your editor grumbles at length about the opportunity missed by the Illinois Film Office at their inaugural “IFO Night at the Movies” in Savoy on June 30, 2008, to educate and connect with downstate media makers.

The Illinois Film Office launches its “IFO Night at the Movies” statewide outreach series with a free showing of Universal Pictures’ WANTED at the Savoy 16 on Monday, June 30, 2008, in Savoy, IL.

THE LIFELINE: TRILOGY, a music film by University of Illinois graduate Chris Folkens, will play Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema in Chicago on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at approximately 7:30 p.m.

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the tenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

The BNFilmFest is accepting submissions through Friday, May 2, for its annual event, which will take place May 13-14, 2008, at the Normal Theater in Normal, IL.

Coming Soon: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES @ Normal Theater, Normal, IL (2/16/08), Springfield and Central Illinois Film Commission meeting @ Kicks, Springfield, IL (2/21/08), African Film Festival @ Beverly Cinemas, Champaign, IL (2/22-28/08), Insect Fear Film Festival @ Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC, Urbana, IL (2/23/08), Dead of Winter Film Festival @ Lincoln Theatre, Decatur, IL (3/1/08), and Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour @ Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL (3/6/08).