C-U Blogfidential

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.

In this edition of “A Knife in a Gun Fight,” author Michelle Kaffko discusses the three “f”s of locating moneys to pay for one’s movie by using THE SCENESTERS, SEVEN SIGNS, and the Split Pillow collective as case studies.

C-U videographer Alexander Mejia has posted for our viewing pleasure ONE SECOND, his entry in the Nikon video competition “A Day Through Your Lens.”

Greg Boardman will conclude his proprietorship of the Art Theater in downtown Champaign with a run of THE BICYCLE THIEF which will end on Wednesday, December 30, 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, December 22, 2009.

The DVD release for the production A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, filmed on the University of Illinois campus in the spring of 2009 by current and former UIUC students, has been pushed back to the spring of 2010.

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center once again is looking for material to present at the IMC Film Festival, which returns February 5-7, 2010, to the IMC in Urbana, IL.

Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, announces several developments including the on-line release of the PRESS START ADVENTURES Holiday Special, the upcoming series SPACE NINJA, and the opening of their Cafe Press shop!

An article in The Pantagraph from Friday, December 11, 2009, tells of the Town of Normal’s votes to consider a rezoning plan to allow new construction on the current site of University 8 Cinemas as well as reject a plan to allow construction of a Family Video store.

Look closely in the correct Big Lots commercial airing on television and you will see our friend, actress/writer Danielle Cloutier, take one more small step towards the big time.