{"id":108,"date":"2006-11-22T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:01:34","slug":"imc-hosts-mongoose-fest-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"IMC hosts Mongoose Fest 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>PAGAL DIL<\/strong>, a Bollywood-inspired love story told in less than 10 minutes, will finally cut loose as part of <strong>Mongoose Productions<\/strong>&#8216; annual presentation of college-student shorts and ephemeral curiosities. <strong>Mongoose Fest 2006<\/strong> is scheduled for <strong>Saturday, November 25, 8 p.m.<\/strong>, in the <strong>Independent Media Center<\/strong> (IMC)\u00a0building (formerly occupied throughout by the U.S. Post Office) at <strong>202 S. Broadway Ave., Urbana, IL<\/strong>, with a $3 cover at the door. The event, once known as the <strong>Filmic Dependency Film Festival<\/strong>, got its start at the IMC&#8217;s original space back in\u00a0January 2003.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Born from the love of India&#8217;s film musicals by Mongoose co-founder <strong>Gabrielle Reisman<\/strong>, <strong>PAGAL DIL<\/strong> features <strong>Ernie Springer<\/strong> and <strong>Tonie Sadler<\/strong> as the central lovebirds with Springer doubling as an evil twin brother. &#8220;Misunderstandings ensue, [and] luckily all ends happily with a giant dance scene,&#8221; Reisman tells <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>, while describing the Fest as having &#8220;a strong Bollywood\/music video\/comedy theme.&#8221; <strong>PAGAL DIL<\/strong> will play with other Mongoose efforts and work by <strong>HarshPro<\/strong> (a.k.a. <strong>Matt HarsH<\/strong>) and the <strong>Duke of Uke<\/strong> (a.k.a. <strong>Dave King<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Reisman and partner <strong>Sam Ambler<\/strong> plan to follow <strong>PAGAL DIL<\/strong> with <strong>KOMBAL<\/strong>, a &#8220;1970s Bollywood style detective film&#8221; per Reisman, that will again star Springer and be shot on color Super 8 film. <a title=\"Mongoose Productions :: MySpace Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/mongooseproductions\" target=\"_blank\">The Mongoose MySpace page<\/a> features a brief overview of their work and a <strong>PAGAL DIL<\/strong> teaser that hints at several recognizable C-U locations used during production.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Check back with\u00a0<strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> later this week for exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of <strong>PAGAL DIL<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Media Center in downtown Urbana, IL, hosts this year&#8217;s Mongoose Productions festival on Saturday, November 25, 2006, at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-events","category-student-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}