C-U Blogfidential

Our second post today is to field the idea of publishing the next issue of C-U Confidential this year. For the interim, we will need to handle it different since it began in 2007. Are you on board?

Our first post today is to announce the website for the New Art Film Festival has been retired. What transpires in the future for the NAFF will dictate whether it will be of service to the C-U as before.

Select movie listings for May 8-14, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!

Our limited series on filmmaking books from the Michael Wiese Productions library continues with ‘Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmaker’s Guide to Short Films’ by Kim Adelman, reviewed by Jason Pankoke.

Select movie listings for May 1-7, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

In an ideal situation, the New Art Film Festival would be joining other downstate Illinois film events in engaging and enthralling you. In this case, the NAFF cheers on their festival friends from afar.

Select movie listings for April 24-30, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

We see that many indie and not-indie film festivals are exploring online streaming. The New Art Film Festival isn’t primed to do that right now but they still have such sights to show you on YouTube!

We’ve finally built a permanent home for the New Art Film Festival on C-U Blogfidental via the ‘Picture Shows du C-U’ page. Did you know we write more than posts on CUBlog? Read about it!

Even though two out of the three pictured here are on a hard pause, we wear our DIY doings like badges of honor. You can too, citizens and alumni of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!

Select movie listings for April 17-23, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for April 10-16, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

A pair of documentaries with downstate Illinois ties, WHITE HEAT/BLACK ASHES and WHERE ARE YOU, JAY BENNETT?, are close to completion. If interested and able, why not nudge them along?

Select movie listings for April 3-9, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for March 27-April 2, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?