{"id":227,"date":"2007-11-13T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:55","slug":"film-emerges-from-iwu-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Film emerges from IWU shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>University of Illinois<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Illinois State University<\/strong> undergraduates dominate the student film coverage here on <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>, &#8217;tis true, but they&#8217;re not the only ones breaking out digital cameras on local campuses. Later today, the six-year-old <strong>9&#215;9 film club<\/strong> of <strong>Illinois Wesleyan University<\/strong>\u00a0will premiere <strong>DOUBLE BLIND<\/strong>,\u00a0a black-and-white &#8220;modern <em>noir<\/em>&#8221; and the group&#8217;s fourth long-form project.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">There <em>is<\/em> added significance to plugging 9&#215;9&#8217;s efforts on <strong>CUBlog<\/strong> beyond the obvious reasons. The show is scheduled for tonight, <strong>Tuesday, November 13, 9 p.m.<\/strong>, at the <strong>Hansen Student Center, IWU, 300 E. Beecher St., Bloomington<\/strong>, which used to be Memorial Gymnasium way back when I lived across the street at <strong>Dolan Hall<\/strong>. Yes, that&#8217;s right, gang\u00a0&#8211; this is filmmaking at my <em>alma mater<\/em>. How in <strong>Tommy Titan<\/strong>&#8216;s name did I miss <em>this<\/em> for a half-decade?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>DOUBLE BLIND<\/strong> was (appropriately) co-directed by 9&#215;9 co-presidents <strong><a title=\"Write to Sehaj Sethi\" href=\"mailto:ssethi@iwu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Sehaj Sethi<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Write to Paul Morello\" href=\"mailto:pmorello@iwu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Morello<\/a><\/strong>, both of whom can be contacted by clicking their respective hyperlinks, and features seniors\u00a0<strong>Chris Davis <\/strong>and <strong>Emily Chicoine<\/strong> and freshman\u00a0<strong>Liam Conlon <\/strong>as the leads.\u00a0A second show featuring the club&#8217;s short films is set for <strong>Wednesday, November 28, 9 p.m.<\/strong>, presumably at Hansen as well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">[Updated 11\/14\/07,\u00a002:00 a.m. CST]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Wesleyan University student film club 9&#215;9 will unveil their latest project, DOUBLE BLIND, on Tuesday, November 13, 2007, at 9 p.m. in the Hansen Student Center.<\/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-227","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\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}