Archive for the 'Area Festivals' Category

Submit your films, movie mavens!

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Filmmakers should take note of several outlets in the immediate region at which their films could possibly play in late 2013! These include the Freeky Creek Short Film Festival, Drunken Zombie Film Festival, Route 66 International Film Festival, and – gasp! – Chicago International Film Festival!

IOW: We’re giving it all for Tilda

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Here’s the best exercise video a movie fan could ever hope to see – Tilda Swinton jumping around with more than a thousand “Ebertfest” attendees in utmost glee!

IOW: We’re living it all for ‘Zilla

Friday, April 26th, 2013

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Sandwiched in between a double-dose of rubber monster cheese are previews of this weekend’s C-U movie activity including the Illini Independent Film Festival, Feminist Film Festival, James Bond Film Festival, and GOING ATTRACTIONS at the Harvest Moon Twin Drive-in!

IOW: Ebert clips to air on WILL

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: WILL-TV 12 will air a compilation of clips featuring the late Roger Ebert, EBERT REMEMBERED, later tonight, Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 8 p.m. Also, take a look at Shatterglass Studios videos about Ebertfest and the Virginia Theatre!

Panels set for Ebertfest 2013

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the panels to be held in conjunction with the fifteenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

NAFF 2013 on tap for tonight!

Friday, April 12th, 2013

C-U Confidential and the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, invite you to take a survey of locally-made cinema today, Friday, April 12, 2013, during the fourth annual New Art Film Festival. It’s bound to surprise!

IOW: NAFF 2013 clips to peruse

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get a leg up on your film-going brethren by taking in this gallery of clips from entries playing the fourth annual New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL, on Friday, April 12, 2013!

NAFF unleashes 2013 film lineup

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

C-U Confidential and the Art Theater Co-op are proud to announce the schedule for the fourth annual New Art Film Festival, a celebration of local and Midwest filmmaking!

IOW: NAFF adrift in Webisphere

Friday, March 29th, 2013

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: As of last week, the New Art Film Festival finally has a place to call “home” on the Interwebs thanks to the fine folks at ThirdSide. Bookmark it, yo.

Ebertfest 2013 films revealed

Monday, March 25th, 2013

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

12 days left to enter NAFF ‘13

Monday, February 25th, 2013

Directors, producers, lend us your films! We want to see the best hours, minutes, and seconds of local movie-making you have to offer the fourth annual New Art Film Festival, coming to the Art Theater Co-op of Champaign, IL, on Friday, April 12, 2013!

IFFF fetes X-FILES at Foellinger

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

Investigate the entomological tonight, Saturday, February 23, 2013, when the annual Insect Fear Film Festival presented by the University of Illinois EGSA welcomes Chris Carter, Darin Morgan, and a pair of X-FILES into the fold.

Ebertfest tix, 49HrFF flix in mix

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Think you’re in the home stretch of Champaign-Urbana cinema happenings for the fall, gang? Not by a long shot! Witness Thursday, November 1, 2012, which is the last day you can register for Illini Film & Video’s 49-hour-long filmmaking challenge this weekend *and* the first day you can reserve Roger Ebert’s Film Festival passes!

Five film events to drop this fall

Friday, October 26th, 2012

We have news for you, dearest readers. All of your favorite fall-time film happenings are going to happen RIGHT NOW. Well, almost. You’ll want to read on for the details about … are you ready? … the Freeky Creek Short Film Festival, the Drunken Zombie Film Festival, the Embarrass Valley Film Festival, the Route 66 International Film Festival, and the Central Illinois Film Expo & Trade Show. Seriously.

Art hosts NAFF 2012 today!

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Please read through the complete line-up for the third annual New Art Film Festival, celebrating locally-made cinema at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign on Friday, April 20, 2012, and then experience the real deal with us tonight!