C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Prepare to be whisked away when Kiss the Cook Productions’ film short SPINNING premieres at the Illini Union at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL, later tonight, Saturday, March 23, 2013!

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at SoDo Theatre in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. They also earned an appearance on UPTV!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The fourth annual New Art Film Festival serves as the primary subject matter for the new episode of ART NOW! which first aired on Urbana Public Television this past Monday, March 11, 2013. Experience it right here or find out when it next appears on UPTV!

Would you believe, two locally-produced features premiering in a two-week span? Kimberly Conner will debut her feature JUMP IN at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in downtown Springfield, IL, at 7 p.m. tonight, Saturday, March 2, 2013.

Time to brave those elements, dearest readers! Locally produced feature SCARY NORMAL engages the C-U for the first time at the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, at both 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. tonight, Thursday, February 21, 2013.

A week of filmy wonders descends upon Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding area beginning Sunday, February 17, 2013, when INFECTION from HD Productions of Champaign invades the Art Theater Co-op. Shamble in early, shamble in often!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Here’s the closest thing to a Champaign-Urbana video jukebox we could pull together for you this week. Megan Johns, The Dirty Feathers, Psychic Twin, and Vivian McConnell perform!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Disenfranchisement leads to self-empowerment as the fictional grandson of Eugene V. Debs goes up against a nemesis in an Indiana political race in THE DRUNK, a Midwest-filmed indie from Tanoos Fleschner Pictures.

In the second helping of our brain-food-for-thought regarding the survival of local movie theaters, we conjure the ghosts of brick-and-mortar cinemas past complete with a visual ode to downtown Champaign’s former Rialto Theater.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Yes, friends, we realize worthy local Web series do *not* have to feature ninjas. How does a pack of grape-drenched zombies sound to you, then? Is good? Good. Otherwise, we’d be UP THE CREEK right about now.

We want YOU to provide the cinematic BOO in the C-U tonight! Read on to find out how right here on C-U Ghoulfidential!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We skip the heebies and the jeebies tonight to bring you a touch of bittersweet romantic bliss courtesy of a Timothy Ro-directed music video for the song “Midnight Love” by Mokhov.

Let’s make a little more noise this week about local movie-making new to disc, shall we? You may now rock out to the DVD of Bob Zimmerman’s C-U rock-and-roll documentary OUT OF NOWHERE, released in September 2012!

On this slo-mo Saturday afternoon we shake it up by delivering a trailer, poster, and the cold hard facts about the Springfield-made THE CINEMA SNOB MOVIE, released to DVD for your high falutin’ consumption on September 25, 2012!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Your body will move. Your body will groove. In fact, it might just “Jump Back” if The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra have anything to sing about it.