C-U Blogfidential

The Chicago Sun-Times runs a quote from C-U Blogfidential in Thursday’s unofficial “Chief Illiniwek” issue.

Coming Soon: “Lebowski Fest” at the Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL (2/22/07), benefit screening of THE ULTIMATE GIFT at the Avon Theatre, Decatur, IL (2/22/07), Human Rights Film Festival at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, Champaign, IL (starting 2/22/07), Latin American Film Festival at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (2/23-3/01/07), Insect Fear Film Festival at Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC, Urbana, IL (2/24/07), and EKLAVYA at Boardman’s Art Theatre, Champaign, IL (3/3-4/07).

Everybody is showing their true colors this week in regards to Chief Illiniwek, the long-standing University of Illinois mascot who will make his last public appearance tonight, Wednesday, February 21, 2007.

Coming Soon: John Cusack Film Festival at Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL (2/15-16/07).

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

C-U Blogfidential introduces a new feature, Clean Slate, where readers can chime in on subjects involving the art and business of film in downstate Illinois. This month’s topic: Local Film & Video Production in 2007

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.