Roger Ebert waxes psychedelic over BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, new to DVD, while “Sirens of Cinema” magazine runs freelance words by your editor.
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Article in Champaign newspaper The Daily Illini about a new bill that will award film companies spending production dollars in Illinois a 20 percent tax credit.
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Profile in Champaign weekly “buzz” of local filmmaker Robin Peters, whose third feature DISCONNECT had its world premiere on June 17, 2006.
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Mongoose Productions has announced an open call for a Bollywood-style dance number to be shot on the Main Quad at the University of Illinois on Sunday, June 11, 2006.
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DISCONNECT, directed and written by Robin Christian Peters for Champaign, IL-based Dreamscape Cinema, will have its World Premiere at the University of Illinois’ Foellinger Auditorium on June 17, 2006.
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The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, June 7, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.
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Article in Champaign weekly The Hub about the first day of shooting for WELCOME TO TOLONO.
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Illini Film & Video presses THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY into service via DVD, while SHOW and ANTIGONE arrive on DVD-R to soothe that burning local-film itch.
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The annual BN Film Fest returns to the Normal Theater in Normal, IL, on Tuesday, May 9, 2006, and Wednesday, May 10, 2006.
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CUBlogs.com awards C-U Blogfidential a four-star review while highlighting the site as their “Limelight” pick for April 2006.
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Extras and production assistants are needed immediately for Mark Roberts’ WELCOME TO TOLONO, currently filming in Tolono, IL.
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ACHOO blows ’em away as winner of the first Champaign-Urbana 25by25by5 Short Film Contest, a competitive event benefitting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Team in Training.
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The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, May 3, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.
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New Flash-animated Web cartoons introduce the characters to be seen in Dark Maze Studios’ PRESS START, currently filming in Champaign, IL.
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Interview with the director of WEREWOLF CEMETERY and a billion other BrainSmart productions.
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