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WILL-TV and the University of Illinois Library sponsor “Home Movie Day,” a celebration of amateur small-gague cinema, at the WILL studios on Saturday, August 12, 2006, 1 p.m.

The most recent production of Effingham, IL-based Callan Films, AN UPHILL CLIMB, is scheduled for broadcast by local PBS station WILL-TV channel 12 on Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 9 p.m. CST.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about decision by the Vermillion Heritage Foundation to temporarily close the Fischer Theatre in Danville, IL, until an adequate financial solution can be found to maintain its operation and renovation.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, August 2, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

Part 2 of THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE, joined by APE: PART 1 and WEREWOLF CEMETERY: EPISODE 2, lays down the verbal whoop-ass on Sunday, July 30, 9:30 p.m., at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in downtown Champaign.

Article in Decatur (IL) daily Herald & Review about freelance screenwriter Steve Latshaw, a former Decatur resident, and his experience working on STAN LEE’S LIGHTSPEED.

Article in Champaign newspaper The Daily Illini about ongoing efforts by the Champaign Park District to renovate the 84-year-old Virginia Theatre.

CRYSTAL’S SIGH, a short film derived from the upcoming feature AURA, IL, produced by FirstSunrise Productions of Champaign, IL, wins a prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award.

MICRO-FILM steps back into the ring for the first MICRO-FILM Movie Show in three years! This time, THE MONSTER OF PHANTOM LAKE and UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY terrorize Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in Champaign, IL, on Sunday, July 23, 2006, and Wednesday, July 26, 2006.

The R.C. Raycraft documentary INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK is scheduled to play the Castle Theater in downtown Bloomington, IL, on Friday, July 14, 2006, 7 p.m.

An Associated Press story on CNN.com reports that film critic Roger Ebert is in serious condition after emergency surgery to repair complications in the region from which cancerous growth was removed on June 16, 2006.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, July 5, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

Article in Champaign daily The News-Gazette about the Illinois Bureau of Tourism’s “Magnificent Movie Getaways” campaign, an effort to promote filmmaking in Illinois through location tours and on-line information.

HEAVY, the new Lorenzo Goetz music video directed by Matt HarsH, will make its debut at The Canopy Club in Urbana, IL, on June 28, 2006.

CRAB ORCHARD, directed by Michael Jacobs and produced by Robin Christian Peters for Champaign, IL-based Dreamscape Cinema, encores at the Piatt Co. Forest Preserve Park in Monticello, IL, on June 25, 2006.