C-U Blogfidential

A brand-new program that showcases independently-made films, WATCH MY SHORTS, has begun airing weekly in the Springfield, IL, area on ACCESS 4.

Accident Films of Bloomington has rescheduled their casting call for AS MERCY DOES. It will take place on Saturday, January 27, 2007, at the Coffee House in downtown Normal.

The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is explored in the British documentary IN SEARCH OF MOZART, to be presented by the Prairie Ensemble on Sunday, January 21, 2007, at Faith United Methodist Church in Champaign, IL.

The next meeting of Illini Film & Video will be on Monday, January 22, 2007, at 7 p.m. in the basement lounge of the UIUC English Building on the Main Quad.

Interview with the directrix of EIDOLON and numerous other Sine Fine films.

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE and STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP will spook patrons of the Avon Theatre in downtown Decatur, IL, on Friday, January 19, 2006, beginning at 10:30 p.m.

Your editor heeds the call of “Sirens of Cinema” for another byline, while RETURN IN RED makes available several MICRO-FILM articles on DVD.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 7 p.m. at Rock’s, 25 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign.

Bloomington, IL, based Accident Films has announced a casting call on Saturday, January 20, 2007, for a new production tentatively called AS MERCY DOES.

We finally receive clarification as to why CNGM Pictures of Palatine, IL, made a movie in Normal, IL, called NORMAL LIFE … apart from the obvious.

The Castle Theatre in Bloomington, IL, has closed for business according to owner-operator Ben Slotky, who revived the single-screen movie house in 2003.