C-U Blogfidential

Local video editor Alexander Mejia is looking for a few good PAs to crew his spec shoot for a Nikon filmmaking competition.

On December 8, 2009, IFC Films and MPI Media Group released to DVD the independent film thriller HOME MOVIE, written and directed by University of Illinois graduate Christopher Denham.

Special film shows come fast and furious during the next two weeks and into the New Year. Don’t you want to know what they are?

You could either wax romantic about how we met on Facebook, or speak philosophically on when our minds met through MySpace – the choice is yours either way.

Predestined Arts & Entertainment of Springfield, IL, will premiere their first short film production, THIS LIFE AIN’T PRETTY, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Springfield tonight, Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at the M2 Building in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.

The sixth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival, produced by Eastern Illinois University and highlighting the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, will take place November 12-14, 2009, in downstate Charleston. And, yes, we admit that we apparently counted wrong last year so you can put away that bayonet, young man.

C-U Blogfidential vicariously joins the land of the living via the new C-U Confidential page on Facebook!

Once again, Illini Film & Video challenges all comers to take their prompts and shove ’em into the best less-than-five-minute film they can make within 49 hours during the annual 49 Hour Film Competiton at the University of Illinois!

The College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking for a candidate to fill the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies.

Join us for this important flashback 10 years in the making, dearest readers of C-U Blogfidential.

Festival passes for the 12th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in Champaign, IL, in April 2010 will go on sale this Sunday, November 1, 2009.

Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, reveals their first teaser poster for PRESS START 2 CONTINUE, which is currently in production.

Join us back for the attack this December when our first “off-season” issue, C-U Confidential ’99, hits the streets!

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at the UIUC Foreign Language Building in Urbana, IL, on Wednesday, October 21, 2009.