C-U Blogfidential

The University YMCA continues its presentation of the Global Lens 2011 international film series this week with a thoughtful Bosnia-Herzegovina entry, BELVEDERE, directed by Ahmed Imamović.

Our readers are not the only ones who receive the fruits of our writing labors. Behold (and then disperse at your leisure) the official press release announcing the 5-year anniversary of C-U Blogfidential!

Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, has formally announced that their newest production, PRESS START 2 CONTINUE, will be available on DVD beginning March 11, 2011.

Friends, filmmakers, countrymen, lend us your ears! The New Art Film Festival will return to the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL, on Friday, April 8, 2011, and we need your submissions and attendance to make it a hit!

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.

The Danville Public Library of Danville, IL, has announced the films that will be shown during its “Real Vs. Reel” film series which begins November 8, 2010, with Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE.

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!

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.

Scientist and author Sandra Steingraber and Toronto filmmaker Chanda Chevannes have scheduled the first stop of their Illinois tour for the new documentary, LIVING DOWNSTREAM, at the Art Theater in Champaign on Saturday, October 16, 2010.

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.

Video producer Bogdan Heretoiu and UIUC Masters’ candidate in Dance, Catrina Choate-Heretoiu, are looking to cast and crew up a “dance for camera” production to shoot in Champaign-Urbana this fall.

Military veteran Thomas R. Jones translates his war experiences to the stage in a new multimedia performance called “A Long Way Home” at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in downtown Springfield, IL, running September 10-12, 2010.

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.

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?