From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s take a quick look at the award-winning entries that typified the horrific variety presented at this year’s Freeky Creek Short Film Festival: BEDTIME FOR TIMMY, SIDE EFFECT, and THE WINTER STALKER!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get your first good look at the no-budget, southern Illinois indie FARM, and then peruse exclusive behind-the-scene photos courtesy of the filmmakers!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about FARM, ONCE UPON A TIME IN 1972, “GEEKS AND ZOMBIES,” the Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival, and what movies are now playing/renting near you! Holy guacamole!
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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.
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about LEADING LADIES, REVOLTING, FARM, RAGSTONE AVENUE, CONTAGION, THE LORD IS NOT ON TRIAL HERE TODAY, and what movies are now playing/renting near you! Hot damn!
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From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We finally run never-before-seen pictures of Derek Klein and crew at work filming a scene on the University of Illinois’ Main Quad for Premonition Pictures’ A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW! Also, watch the opening segment of POV right here and learn where to check out the entire movie on-line!
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In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you what happened to A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, how we upgraded our new YouTube channel, which publications profiled friends of CUBlog, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!
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Decatur area native and former Champaign resident Alaric Rocha returns downstate this weekend to shoot his latest short film, WINTER IN LOUISIANA.
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Summit Entertainment released the well-received documentary BROTHERS AT WAR, directed by Decatur native Jake Rademacher, to DVD on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
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Springfield native and former Mahomet/C-U resident Laura Bynum returns to the area to read from her just-published first novel, Veracity (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster) at 7 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at Borders bookstore in north Champaign.
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The DVD release for the production A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, filmed on the University of Illinois campus in the spring of 2009 by current and former UIUC students, has been pushed back to the spring of 2010.
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Look closely in the correct Big Lots commercial airing on television and you will see our friend, actress/writer Danielle Cloutier, take one more small step towards the big time.
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On December 8, 2009, IFC Films and MPI Media Group released to DVD the independent film thriller HOME MOVIE, written and directed by University of Illinois graduate Christopher Denham.
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On Wednesday, September 30, 2009, CNGM Pictures of Palatine, IL, released to DVD their college-set drama NORMAL LIFE, filmed in Bloomington-Normal during the spring of 2006.
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Several individuals would like to stand up in front of a local audience this week and tell us all about it. Are you game to listen and learn, dearest readers?
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