C-U Blogfidential

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about opportunities on Dreamscape’s MY DOG, THE SPACE TRAVELER, a video job at The217.com, the schedule for the Route 66 Film Festival, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!

William Otto Pankoke, also known as your humble editor’s “Pappy JaPan,” has passed away at age 83.

In the premiere of C-U Blogfidential’s new all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you about a Chicago benefit for the B-N indie USING, the 21 Film Project contest, the public I article about local film fests, an orphaned local film DVD, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at Class Act Interactive in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

The Illinois Film Office has announced its third annual “Shortcuts” film competition and will accept entries until Tuesday, August 31, 2010.

Skip Huston dons his professorial guise once again to surprise us with a new round of “overlooked films” during his next Richland Community College class which will begin tonight, Thursday, June 17, 2010, at the Avon Theater in Decatur.

Champaign Movie Makers will next meet at Class Act Interactive in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, while the Central Illinois Film Commission will congregate two days later at the Route 66 Hotel & Convention Center in Springfield, IL, on Thursday, June 17, 2010.

Normal, IL, movie-maker R.C. Raycraft releases his rock documentary INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK a full 40 years after the music festival “Incident at Kickapoo Creek” originally took place, starting at the Normal Theater on Monday, May 31, 2010.

Champaign Movie Makers will next meet at Class Act Interactive in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, while the Central Illinois Film Commission will congregate two days later at the Route 66 Hotel & Convention Center in Springfield, IL, on Thursday, May 20, 2010.

At long last, the fourth edition of C-U Confidential will make its debut during the final evening of the New Art Film Festival tonight, April 20, 2010, at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL.

It’s time to support your local art house, kids, and there’s no better way to do it than to get your indie flick fix during the New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater in Champaign, IL, from April 15-20, 1010.

It’s here! It’s here! Time to make your picks for attending the inaugural New Art Film Festival at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, taking place April 15-20, 2010 alongside the Boneyard Arts Festival. Time, in fact, to support your local filmmaker in public during a high-profile community extravaganza. We know you can do it.

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the movies to be showcased at the twelfth annual edition of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival.

Champaign Movie Makers will next meet at the M2 Building in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, while the Central Illinois Film Commission will congregate two days later at the Route 66 Hotel & Convention Center in Springfield, IL, on Thursday, March 18, 2010.

EXTRA! Interview with the director and producer of HOOPESTON.