{"id":4755,"date":"2012-03-14T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:52:29","slug":"cifc-cmm-meet-mar-15-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4755","title":{"rendered":"CIFC, CMM meet March 15, 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Hark!<\/em> Movie-making friends and neighbors will be congregating in the immediate futures of <strong>Springfield<\/strong> and <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> so go and mix freely with curiosity and ambition, dearest readers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Returning president <strong>Dean Williams<\/strong> will lead this month\u2019s <strong>Central Illinois Film Commission<\/strong> gathering tomorrow, <strong>Thursday, March 15, 7 p.m.<\/strong>, at a new location, the <strong>Schnucks<\/strong> supermarket in <strong>Montvale Plaza, 2801 Chatham Rd., Springfield<\/strong>. Attendees should seek out the meeting room in what used to be their video rental store. CIFC connects industry professionals and educates up-and-comers via classes, social events, and Internet tools, along with plugging its members into working sets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The guest speaker will be former <strong>Illinois State Police<\/strong> inspector and author <strong>Alva Busch<\/strong> (<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Roadside Prey<\/span><\/strong>) while director\/writer <strong>Kimberly Conner<\/strong> updates about her currently shooting indie feature, <strong>JUMP IN<\/strong>. Contact CIFC secretary <strong>Tabitha Bock<\/strong> at <strong>tabitha [dot] bock [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong> or <strong>(217) 553-9966<\/strong> for more information or to suggest future guest speakers, fundraising ideas, and the like. You can also <a title=\"Central Illinois Film Commission :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralillinoisfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit their Web site<\/a> or<a title=\"Central Illinois Film Commission @ Yahoo! Groups\" href=\"http:\/\/movies.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/centralillinoisfilm\/\" target=\"_blank\"> join their <strong>Yahoo! Group<\/strong><\/a> for CIFC news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Closer to home, <strong>Champaign Movie Makers<\/strong> affords area filmmakers and talent an opportunity to discuss and join forces on the making of independent cinema. CMM will get together next on <strong>Tuesday, March 20, 7 p.m.<\/strong>, at <strong>SoDo Theatre, 114 S. Neil St., Champaign<\/strong>, and the featured activity will be a \u201cVisual Storytelling Roundtable\u201d during which you can \u201ctalk about your favorite visual sequences, interesting ways to develop story and characters without words, and how our own work can be improved by a more conscious use of this visual medium!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contact CMM director <strong>Thomas Nicol<\/strong> at<strong> ChampaignMovieMakers [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong> for further details or frequent their <a title=\"Champaign Movie Makers @ Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChampaignMovieMakers\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"Champaign Movie Makers @ Ning\" href=\"http:\/\/champaignmoviemakers.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ning<\/strong><\/a> pages for updates!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Champaign Movie Makers (Art: Johnny Robinson)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog%20Art\/cu_cmm_largelogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Illinois Film Commission will congregate at the Montvale Plaza Schnucks in Springfield, IL, on Thursday, March 15, 2012, while Champaign Movie Makers will next meet a few days later at SoDo Theatre in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,68,12],"tags":[919,396,1704,723,211],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-ill-commission","category-champaign-movie-makers","category-local-meetings","tag-alva-busch","tag-central-illinois-film-commission","tag-champaign-movie-makers","tag-jump-in","tag-kimberly-conner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","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=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}