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The next meeting of Illini Film & Video will be on Saturday, September 9, 2006, at 1 p.m. in the back of Bar Giuliani in Campustown.

The next meeting of CU Video Group will be on Wednesday, September 6, 2006, at 7 p.m. in the new addition of the Esquire Lounge in downtown Champaign.

MICRO-FILM rocks out with another MICRO-FILM Movie Show! This time, we program an evening’s worth of productions from Chicago’s Film Foetus, including the full-length doc THE BEARS: OUT OF HIBERNATION! with Adrian Belew, at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in Champaign, IL, on Saturday, September 9, 2006.

The next meeting of Illini Film & Video will be on Saturday, August 26, 2006, at 1 p.m. in the back of Bar Giuliani in Campustown.

Directed, produced, and written by Robin Christian Peters for Champaign, IL-based Dreamscape Cinema, DISCONNECT encores at the Piatt Co. Forest Preserve Park in Monticello, IL, on August 27, 2006.

CNGM Pictures of Chicago offers a taste of NORMAL LIFE during the final screening day of MicrocinemaFest in Palatine, IL, on Saturday, August 12, 2006, 7 p.m.

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.