The Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, Illinois, will bear witness to the best of our cinema best on Sunday, April 13, 2014, when C-U Confidential brings the fifth annual New Art Film Festival to the house!
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The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the sixteenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.
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The 2014 Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival is underway on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Read on for a preview of the selections and overarching themes of the event!
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Is pest control worth the pesticide we add to the growing produce we eventually harvest and eat? The Insect Fear Film Festival asks this and other related questions tonight, Saturday, February 22, 2014, beginning at 7 p.m.!
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Can we see a show of hands? You can still count the number of New Art Film Festivals on that hand as the fifth edition approaches on Sunday, April 13, 2014, at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL! Start entering those films now!
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We could wile away the winter by camping in front of the telly, Skyping cutesy-like with our friends, or sleeping lots more than usual. But, no. NOOOOO-O-O-O-O. We have too much Confidential action on our hands to be mere Champaign-Urbana mortals. Qualifiers ahead!
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Organizers of the seventh annual Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, will be accepting submissions through Saturday, March 1, 2014.
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EXTRA! Interview with the director of the 2013 Embarras Valley Film Festival in Charleston, IL!
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It’s time to read and heed again in the physical world, C-U Confidential brethren. Take a look at what is beginning to materialize at hot spots near you!
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EXTRA! Interview with the director of the 2013 Drunken Zombie Film Festival in Peoria, IL!
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EXTRA! Interview with the sponsorship director of the 2013 Route 66 International Film Festival in Springfield, IL!
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EXTRA! Interview with the director of the 2013 Freeky Creek Short Film Festival in Fairmount, IL!
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Time to make some noise about ourselves, dearest readers! Coming soon are the Drunken Zombie Film Festival in Peoria on November 1-2, 2013, which we’re co-sponsoring, and the new Art Theater history book, which your editor designed. Look out for them and the seventh issue of C-U Confidential, too!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “The C-U Film Leader,” we talk about THE GARDEN OF CHLOE auditions, the passing of Gary Gardner, on-line Pens to Lens videos, the Avon Theatre’s new little sister, and film contests galore!
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Once again, we feel behind the times in our own reporting niche but that will not stop us from encouraging you last-minute to support Urbana Basement Sessions, engage in “Dinner and Bikes,” and revel in the success of Pens to Lens!
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