C-U Blogfidential

Yes, there’s more than enough material available to fill up a second C-U Confidential Local Movie Show this coming April at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign. Silly naysayers.

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, February 23, 2010.

It’s Unofficial Litmus Test Week at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL, where new operator Sanford Hess will begin testing the threshold of how creative his programming choices can get and still fly with his patrons.

Now that we know the hoped-for “sleeper” success of THE INFORMANT! turned out to be one extended yawner, we turn from the film craft to the box office and consider what exactly went wrong.

Decatur area native and former Champaign resident Alaric Rocha returns downstate this weekend to shoot his latest short film, WINTER IN LOUISIANA.

The IMC Film Festival returns to celebrate the art of cinematography later this week during February 5-7, 2010, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in the old Post Office building in downtown Urbana, IL.

It’s almost time to relive the conspiracy again and again in the comfort of your own home, as Warner Home Video plans to release THE INFORMANT! on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.

Better late than never, Megan Johns pulls into the C-U Blogfidential station with her music video “The Beat was Burnt,” produced by Matt HarsH and Sam Ambler.

The next meeting of Illini Film & Video will be on Monday, January 25, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the UIUC English Building on the Main Quad.

PopTent.net and M&M Mars decided to share the wealth with Joe Taylor of Fairmount, Bill Kephart of Tolono, and Thomas Nicol of Urbana, who won $5,000 for their Snickers spec spot, “Share the Love.”

Last week, local musical stalwarts Elsinore proudly unveiled the new video for their song, “Chemicals,” directed by Matt HarsH and photographed by Sam Ambler.

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, January 19, 2010.

Summit Entertainment released the well-received documentary BROTHERS AT WAR, directed by Decatur native Jake Rademacher, to DVD on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.

The submission deadline for the second annual IMC Film Festival has been extended to Wednesday, January 20, 2010.

Springfield native and former Mahomet/C-U resident Laura Bynum returns to the area to read from her just-published first novel, Veracity (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster) at 7 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at Borders bookstore in north Champaign.