{"id":194,"date":"2007-08-19T23:59:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T05:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:00:13","slug":"dead-tolono-xmas-to-play-iiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"DEAD, TOLONO, XMAS to play IIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Late last week, co-director <strong>Michael Wolinski<\/strong> announced that the line-up for this year&#8217;s <strong>Illinois International Film Festival<\/strong> (IIFF) had been <a title=\"IIFF 2007 schedule @ IllinoisInternationalFilmFestival.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoisinternationalfilmfestival.com\/2007iiff.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted on their Web site<\/a>, so I immediately\u00a0took a gander at the list. Lo and behold, amongst the dozens of short subjects and\u00a015 feature films chosen for the festival&#8217;s second go-round, I discovered that\u00a0three productions from downstate Illinois made the final cut: <strong>LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD<\/strong>, <strong>WELCOME TO TOLONO<\/strong>, and <strong>MERRY CHRISTMAS!<\/strong> Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">IIFF will take place <strong>Friday, September 14<\/strong>, through <strong>Sunday, September 16<\/strong>, at the <strong>Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL<\/strong>,\u00a0one block from the\u00a0<strong>Fox River<\/strong> in\u00a0the downtown area. When I served as a judge last year, I was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of the selections, so film fans in the west Chicago &#8216;burbs should definitely check it out. Just as well, friends of <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> would\u00a0do well\u00a0to support local filmmaking by attending\u00a0<strong>LIVING DEAD<\/strong> (<strong>9\/14, 10 a.m.<\/strong>), <strong>TOLONO<\/strong> (<strong>9\/15, 10 a.m.<\/strong>), and <strong>CHRISTMAS<\/strong> (<strong>9\/15, 4:30 p.m.<\/strong>) if at all possible. Two words, folks\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;road trip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Prior to launching IIFF, Wolinski and partners <strong>Shaun Fox<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Wolinski<\/strong> formed <strong>Tripod Films, LLC<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>through which they have produced\u00a0a pair of\u00a0horror films, <strong>WITCHCRAFT 13: BLOOD OF THE CHOSEN<\/strong> and <strong>DRAWING BLOOD<\/strong>, and a sketch comedy video, <strong>THE DIRTY IMMIGRANTS: ALL FOR ONE<\/strong>. Michael Wolinski graduated from the film school of <strong>Southern Illinois University-Carbondale<\/strong> while Jeff Wolinski earned a\u00a0cinema studies\u00a0degree from the <strong>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong>. The brothers&#8217; first feature, <strong>THE AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL<\/strong>, was covered\u00a0way back in <strong><a title=\"Buy MICRO-FILM 3 @ Micro-Film-Magazine.com!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/mf03.php\" target=\"_blank\">MICRO-FILM 3<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of downstate indies &#8211; LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD, WELCOME TO TOLONO, and MERRY CHRISTMAS! &#8211; will be featured during the second annual Illinois International Film Festival at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, IL, on Friday, September 14, 2007, and Saturday, September 15, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}