C-U Blogfidential

At long last, the fourth edition of C-U Confidential will make its debut during the final evening of the New Art Film Festival tonight, April 20, 2010, at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL.

It’s time to support your local art house, kids, and there’s no better way to do it than to get your indie flick fix during the New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater in Champaign, IL, from April 15-20, 1010.

It’s here! It’s here! Time to make your picks for attending the inaugural New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, taking place April 15-20, 2010 alongside the Boneyard Arts Festival. Time, in fact, to support your local filmmaker in public during a high-profile community extravaganza. We know you can do it.

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

A smattering of singular movie shows bring a little variety to area screens this weekend, including a locally-produced featurette, a Bollywood thriller, Oscar-nominated shorts, and two creature features.

Yes, there’s more than enough material available to fill up a second C-U Confidential Local Movie Show this coming April at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign. Silly naysayers.

The IMC Film Festival returns to celebrate the art of cinematography later this week during February 5-7, 2010, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in the old Post Office building in downtown Urbana, IL.

The submission deadline for the second annual IMC Film Festival has been extended to Wednesday, January 20, 2010.

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center once again is looking for material to present at the IMC Film Festival, which returns February 5-7, 2010, to the IMC in Urbana, IL.

Special film shows come fast and furious during the next two weeks and into the New Year. Don’t you want to know what they are?

The sixth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, produced by Eastern Illinois University and highlighting the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, will take place November 12-14, 2009, in downstate Charleston. And, yes, we admit that we apparently counted wrong last year so you can put away that bayonet, young man.

Join us for this important flashback 10 years in the making, dearest readers of C-U Blogfidential.

Festival passes for the 12th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in Champaign, IL, in April 2010 will go on sale this Sunday, November 1, 2009.

C-U Blogfidential shares some ideas about places to go, people to meet, and events to attend, because we are firm believers in moderating one’s time in front of one’s video screens at the home front.

The eighth annual Route 66 International Film Festival presents the best in global independent cinema at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield, IL, on September 19-20, 2009.