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Coming Soon: “Lebowski Fest” at the Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL (2/22/07), benefit screening of THE ULTIMATE GIFT at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (2/22/07), Human Rights Film Festival at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, Champaign, IL (starting 2/22/07), Latin American Film Festival at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (2/23-3/01/07), Insect Fear Film Festival at Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC, Urbana, IL (2/24/07), and EKLAVYA at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (3/3-4/07).

Coming Soon: John Cusack Film Festival at Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL (2/15-16/07).

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 7 p.m. at Rock’s, 25 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign.

The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is explored in the British documentary IN SEARCH OF MOZART, to be presented by the Prairie Ensemble on Sunday, January 21, 2007, at Faith United Methodist Church in Champaign, IL.

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE and STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP will spook patrons of the Avon Theatre in downtown Decatur, IL, on Friday, January 19, 2006, beginning at 10:30 p.m.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 7 p.m. at Rock’s, 25 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign.

Classic and contemporary Hollywood will continue lighting up the silver screen of the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign thanks to the News-Gazette’s on-going Film Series.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7 p.m. at Rock’s, 25 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign.

The Independent Media Center in downtown Urbana, IL, hosts this year’s Mongoose Productions festival on Saturday, November 25, 2006, at 8 p.m.

Coming Soon: “Hitchcock Movies-Part Two” film class at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (11/16/06-???), THE HEART OF THE GAME at the Normal Theater, Normal, IL (11/16-19/06), After Dark Horrorfest at the Beverly Cinemas, Champaign, IL (11/17-21/06), UMRAO JAAN at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (11/18-19/06), and the re-opening of the Princess Theatre, LeRoy, IL (11/22/06).

MERRY CHRISTMAS!, the current project from Champaign’s Blue Bassoon Pictures, will premiere on Sunday, December 17, 2006, 5 p.m., in the University of Illinois’ Lincoln Hall Theater.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

Coming Soon: Negativland’s “It’s All In Your Head FM” at OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL (11/3/06), DON at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (11/4-5/06), and filmmaker Tony Palmer speaking at the School of Music, UIUC, Urbana, IL (11/6/06).

Festival passes for the next Overlooked Film Festival, taking place at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign on April 25-29, 2007, go on sale today!

MICRO-FILM scares up yet another MICRO-FILM Movie Show! This time, we present a horror double-bill featuring DRAWING BLOOD and SEX MACHINE at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in Champaign, IL, on Saturday, October 28, 2006.