From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s now take a quick look at the work of Johnnie May and Danny Plotnick that typifies the wide-ranging variety once presented at Champaign-Urbana’s Freaky Film Festival from 1997 to 2000.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we salute REVOLTING, IT’S A PENGUINFUL LIFE, and the Art Theater in victory, announce calls for actors, plug this weekend’s film fests, and reveal what movies are now playing/renting near you!
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The seventh annual Embarras Valley Film Festival will explore silent film in the Land of Lincoln on November 11-13, 2010, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s take a quick look at the award-winning entries that typified the horrific variety presented at this year’s Freeky Creek Short Film Festival: BEDTIME FOR TIMMY, SIDE EFFECT, and THE WINTER STALKER!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about a George Hickenlooper moment, the Freeky Creek FF that was, the Drunken Zombie FF that will be, the IMC Film Fest yet to come, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!
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The Illini Film & Video club at the University of Illinois has announced the dates for this year’s 49-Hour Film Festival and competition – November 5-8, 2010!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about FARM, ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1972, “GEEKS AND ZOMBIES,” the Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival, and what movies are now playing/renting near you! Holy guacamole!
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Joe Taylor of Sleepy Creek Vineyards in Fairmount, IL, has announced the entries that will be shown during the Freeky Creek Short Film Festival on October 29-31, 2010.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we bitch about unkempt work spaces, we moan about neighbor apathy towards local film, and we tell you what movies are now renting/playing near you!
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Nearly 50 years after H.G. Lewis first proved it, success comes to those indie horror flicks that know how to “bleed in Peoria” when the third annual Drunken Zombie Film Festival tosses cookies on the carpets of The Peoria Theater on Friday, November 5, and Saturday, November 6, 2010.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about this week’s AMBER ROSE preview, this weekend’s Route 66 and Latin American film fests, next week’s Freeky Creek deadline, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!
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The fall will be movie time on the Mother Road when the Route 66 International Film Festival rolls around for its ninth outing in Springfield on September 17-19, 2010. Some of their neighbors will also be exhibiting at the event.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about first-time showings of WEREWOLF CEMETERY IV, REVOLTING, and ONE ROACH FOR SEAMUS along with an MTV casting call, award-winning spec spots, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!
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At long last, MICRO-FILM Country is allowed to get a little freaky again during the Halloween season when Joe Taylor and Bill Kephart present the first-ever Freeky Creek Short Film Festival this October at Sleepy Creek Vineyards in Fairmount, IL! Do you have a film that’s freeky enough to submit?
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about opportunities on Dreamscape’s MY DOG, THE SPACE TRAVELER, a video job at The217.com, the schedule for the Route 66 Film Festival, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!
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