{"id":10933,"date":"2017-05-03T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T02:37:06","slug":"book-to-keep-you-awake-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=10933","title":{"rendered":"BOOK to keep you AWAKE tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/214333807?portrait=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/214333807\">BLACK BOOK | Official Film Trailer<\/a><\/span> from<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/zakkfairley\">Zakk Fairley Video Production<\/a><\/span> on<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Production groups formed by creative young people will take center stage and screen this evening at the <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"The Normal Theater :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.normaltheater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Normal Theater<\/a><\/span>, 209 North St., Normal, IL<\/strong>, during a \u201cLocal Filmmakers\u2019 Showcase\u201d that will begin at <strong>7 p.m.<\/strong> The headliner is a 40-minute featurette from <strong>Vigilant Studios<\/strong> of Normal called <strong>BLACK BOOK<\/strong> that is directed by<strong> Zakk Fairley<\/strong> and written by <strong>Ricky Punjabi<\/strong>, two of the group\u2019s cofounders. <strong>Adam J. Rebora, Anastasia Ferguson<\/strong>, and <strong>Wes Melton<\/strong> star in a thriller about an engaged couple stressed by their move to the big city as well as opposite work schedules, keeping them separate on most days. As a spur-of-the-moment idea, Elisabeth (Ferguson) visits an antiquarian bookseller (Melton) to purchase a birthday gift for Skylar (Rebora), ultimately taking home an ancient Latin-language book that Skylar can translate thanks to his college studies. They receive no thanks, however, from the mysterious forces awakened by reading this cursed volume! Whereas most cast and crew of <strong>BLACK BOOK<\/strong> are <strong>Illinois State University<\/strong> students and recent alumni, we have to take the educated guess that lead-in drama <strong>AWAKE<\/strong> is the handiwork of an all-ISU crew since we can\u2019t find any hard information about it other than the plot crunch provided by the Normal\u2019s <strong>Facebook<\/strong> page. \u201c<strong>AWAKE<\/strong> is a coming-of-age artistic exploration into the lives of a group of college juniors and seniors,\u201d states the Event listing about the 70-minute-long story, \u201c[and] takes realism and combines it with surrealism into one piece of art to take the audience into the dreams, nightmares, and the realities of being a young adult in today\u2019s society.\u201d Sounds like a pretty heavy-duty experience is in store for the audience, yes? We\u2019re also presuming the show serves as a public premiere for <strong>AWAKE<\/strong>; <strong>BLACK BOOK<\/strong> received its own unveiling last <strong>Saturday, April 29<\/strong>, also at the Normal. Tonight\u2019s showcase is free to attend and will conclude with a filmmaker question-and-answer session, while you can find links to additional <strong>BLACK BOOK<\/strong> coverage in <strong>Bloomington-Normal<\/strong> media on <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Vigilant Studios :: Official Site\" href=\"http:\/\/thevigilantstudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Vigilant Web site<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.<\/em> Unbeknownst to us at posting time, the filmmakers had planned to <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"BLACK BOOK @ Vimeo\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/216116049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">release <strong>BLACK BOOK<\/strong> on <strong>Vimeo<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>immediately after these shows. Hit the link and check out the short in its entirety!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[Updated 5\/17\/17, 9:40 p.m. CST]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"BLACK BOOK (Vigilant Studios)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_blackbook_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"677\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Normal Theater in Normal, IL, will present two new local films, AWAKE and BLACK BOOK, during a prime time event tonight, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Based on available descriptions, expect the unexpected!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,18,20],"tags":[1813,1812,1816,1057,1000,1814,1817,1815],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-public-events","category-student-film","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-awake","tag-black-book","tag-ricky-punjabi","tag-student-filmmaking","tag-the-normal-theater","tag-vigilant-studios","tag-wes-melton","tag-zakk-fairley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","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=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}