{"id":151,"date":"2008-09-20T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:58:57","slug":"c-u-movies-crash-iiff-r66-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"C-U movies crash IIFF, R66 fests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year ’round this time (see item: 8\/19\/07<\/a>) we reported with glee how several local productions made the cut in the third annual Illinois International Film Festival<\/a><\/strong>, run by MICRO-FILM<\/strong> friends Michael<\/strong> and Jeffrey Wolinski<\/strong>. This weekend, the song remains the same as the fourth edition of the IIFF commences this morning, Saturday, September 20<\/strong>, and continues through tomorrow evening, Sunday, September 21<\/strong>, at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL<\/strong>. Amidst a packed selection of independent cinema from around the world, Chris Folkens<\/strong>‘ THE LIFELINE: TRILOGY<\/strong> (see item: 5\/25\/08<\/a>) will play during Block 1 on Sunday morning (10 a.m.<\/strong>)\u00a0while Alaric Rocha<\/strong>‘s NEAR MISS<\/strong> (see item: 11\/26\/07<\/a>) will appear during Block 2 on late Sunday afternoon (4:15 p.m.<\/strong>). Congratulations to both filmmakers and much continued success to IIFF!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Route 66 Film Festival<\/a><\/strong> also commences this morning with two additional movies of local origin in tow. Head on over to the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. Sixth St., Springfield, IL<\/strong>, between now, Saturday, September 20<\/strong>, and tomorrow night, Sunday, September 21<\/strong>, to experience dozens of productions from around the world. These include a pair of C-U student shorts: Roshan Murthy<\/strong> and Sam Copeland<\/strong>‘s SAMSARA 2<\/strong> (see item: 7\/2\/08<\/a>), which brings the apocalypse to this afternoon’s “Audience Favorite – Drama Competition” block (1:15 p.m.<\/strong>), and Chris Lukeman<\/strong> and Anne Shivers<\/strong>‘\u00a0THE TRANSIENT<\/strong> (see item: 8\/2\/07<\/a>), which merely brings the hurt to evildoers everywhere during tomorrow evening’s “Short Film Winners and Awards” block (6 p.m.<\/strong>). Salutations to all!<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0festival director Linda McElroy<\/strong> – who is a director herself with the 747 Productions<\/strong> short, THE PERFECT MARK<\/strong> – Route 66 was deluged with more than 100 entries this year\u00a0after joining WithoutABox.com<\/strong> and being named one of 25 festivals\u00a0worth the entry fee by MovieMaker<\/strong><\/span> magazine. This makes the inclusion of SAMSARA 2<\/strong> and THE TRANSIENT<\/strong> quite commendable, with the latter also earning its crew the first Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Award <\/strong>and a cash prize. Who knew the trenchcoated one and his case worker Steve were equally adept at warding off competing auteurs<\/em>\u00a0as well as\u00a0the\u00a0vampiric Honest Abe?<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend, the Illinois Independent Film Festival hosts THE LIFELINE: TRILOGY and NEAR MISS up in St. Charles, IL, while the Route 66 Film Festival welcomes SAMSARA 2 and THE TRANSIENT over in Springfield, IL. Why are you still sitting in front of your computer right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-public-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}