From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It’s more a “Concept of the Week,” Holly Rushakoff’s forthcoming Web archive Champaign-Urbana Music is, but it also has a picture. Fun!
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We are an intelligent and imaginative society, yes? Then we should be able to comprehend and solve the nagging conundrum addressed by a certain sports mascot documentary, no?
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The eighth annual Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival will take place March 23-25, 2015, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, featuring indie films FISH TANK and MOSQUITA Y MARI.
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Organizers of the eighth annual Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, will be accepting submissions through Sunday, March 1, 2015.
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A flurry of old-school, post-school experiences came back to occupy Mr. JaPan after taking part in a symposium about do-it-yourself print media. In the spirit of the milieu, he cut and pasted together this post just for you.
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The occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois, inspires Perry C. Morris and friends to celebrate local movie history!
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Student filmmakers in downstate Illinois are invited to submit their work between now and Friday, October 10, 2014, for possible inclusion in the tenth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL.
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It takes key knowledge and selective investment to make the most of a low-budget movie. Good thing Hugh Sullivan of the Decatur Herald & Review is BEHIND THE LENS to cover the basics, one episode at a time!
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The School for Designing a Society in Urbana will host its first-ever Interdependent Film Festival beginning tonight, Thursday, July 31, 2014,at the Independent Media Center in downtown Urbana, featuring the work of local women filmmakers.
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Today, PDF stands for “pretty darn fascinating” as we point you towards a free ePDF promotion of film book publisher Michael Wiese’s unorthodox autobiography, “Onward & Upward.” You can read, dearest readers, can you not?
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In the second of several (belated) CUBlog reports examining Champaign-Urbana film events from recent months, Confidential agent Lauren Laws reports on film feminism as created through the efforts of University of Illinois students, alumni, and staff.
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Confidential agent Z files the first of several (belated) CUBlog reports examining Champaign-Urbana film events from recent months. In this story, a downtown Champaign gallery goes against type with its programming.
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The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the panels to be held in conjunction with the sixteenth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.
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A completely unofficial prelude to the wonders one might watch at the New Art Film Festival next month, the local film “double feature” at Figure One in downtown Champaign on Saturday, March 22, 2014 aims to educate and inspire.
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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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