{"id":3592,"date":"2011-07-09T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:53:53","slug":"c-u-biz-en-scene-07-09-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3592","title":{"rendered":"C-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne: 07.09.2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cC-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne\u201d appears every Thursday\/Friday on <\/em>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> to give our readers a succinct snapshot of the cinema activity in and near <\/em>Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<\/strong>. Please support the artists and their work, attend screenings and events, and otherwise become active in our esoteric little world!<\/em><\/p>\n

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MFHQ & YOU:
\nNo Punishment in Entertaining the Capital<\/strong><\/p>\n

Producing C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> week after week, we often run short of time to provide you dearest readers with the rest of the story when it comes to public outings. We do <\/em>venture forth from the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> to attend events listed here in the Biz<\/strong>, believe it or not, yet we\u2019re usually looking forward again while writing our posts before we ever get a chance to recount that which we soak in while roaming Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond. Today, we\u2019d like to reverse the trend and bring up our Springfield <\/strong>trip with the lady Cara Day<\/strong> back on June 18<\/strong> to attend the premiere of Walkaway Entertainment<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s locally made micro-budget thriller PARANOIA<\/strong>. Roughly a hundred folks, many of them \u201cfriends of the production\u201d such as Dark Maze Studios<\/strong>\u2019 Ed <\/strong>and Meagan Glaser<\/strong>, converged in the spacious 4th floor event room at the downtown Hoogland Center for the Arts<\/strong> rented by filmmakers Ryan Mitchelle<\/strong> and Brad Jones<\/strong>. Apart from our mildly \u201cbumpy\u201d sightline due to a sea of heads situated between us and a low-mounted screen, we liked this psychological romp about a writer wannabe played by Jones who flirts with murder and other disasters one long dark night after his wife bolts in general disgust. We possibly enjoyed the discussion session even more when a sprightly bunch led by Jones and Mitchelle took the stage post-credits to talk, explain, and joke about their project and teamwork, introducing us to a movie-making nucleus we otherwise hadn\u2019t known about. Once they finished, we offered congratulations and then broke away to spend time with our friends Linda McElroy<\/strong> of the Route 66 International Film Festival<\/strong><\/a> and Cameron Counts<\/strong> of the Central Illinois Film Commission<\/strong><\/a>, also in attendance. After spending time critiquing television talent shows and avoiding eye contact with half-drunk hotties at the Firehouse Tavern<\/strong><\/a>, we bid adieu to Counts and McElroy before making our way to nearby Brewhaus<\/a> <\/strong>where Route 66 stalwart Meredith Dumyahn<\/strong> had joined the Walkaway entourage, sadly less Mitchelle, Jones, and PARANOIA <\/strong>co-star Jillian Zurawski<\/strong>. With chat becoming idle and closing time looming, we took our leave for the long I-72 drag home. A modest evening out, the PARANOIA <\/strong>show left us with the rather secure feeling that movie-making crazies were among us even in our non-usual haunts, although sometimes one has to go out of one\u2019s way to engage them. Cases in point:<\/p>\n