{"id":5765,"date":"2013-02-21T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:49:10","slug":"tonight-scary-normal-is-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=5765","title":{"rendered":"Tonight, SCARY NORMAL is go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yet another <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> independent film project makes its way into the history books as <strong>Hot Diggity Productions<\/strong>\u2019 feature <strong>SCARY NORMAL<\/strong> takes a bow this evening, <strong>Thursday, February 21<\/strong>, at both <strong>6:30<\/strong> and <strong>8:30 p.m.<\/strong> at the <strong>Art Theater Co-op, 126 W. Church St., Champaign<\/strong>! The quirky coming-of-age story highlights both triumphs and tribulations experienced by high-school senior and budding arts whiz Chelsea Hart (<strong>Laura Welle<\/strong>) as she expresses feelings for witty outcast Danielle (<strong>April Cleveland<\/strong>), much to the surprise of everyone around her. Filled with honest touches and hopeful resolutions, <strong>SCARY NORMAL<\/strong> is written and directed by <strong>Jennifer Bechtel<\/strong> and also stars <strong>Mike Trippiedi<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Taber<\/strong> as Chelsea\u2019s parents Joe and Ginny, <strong>Finn Dallas<\/strong> as Chelsea\u2019s super-eager younger brother Matthew, and <strong>Jaysha Dunn Lowery<\/strong> and <strong>Cece Hagen<\/strong> as neighborhood kids Kannetra and Emily. <strong>Chris<\/strong> and <strong>Anne Lukeman<\/strong> co-produced the good-humored indie with Bechtel, <strong>Tim Meyers<\/strong> acted as a production advisor, and <strong>Kyle Loughrin<\/strong> served as director of photography. You can <a title=\"SCARY NORMAL :: Official Site\" href=\"http:\/\/scarynormalmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">find the entire cast and crew credited<\/a> at the <strong>SCARY NORMAL<\/strong> Web site, along with <a title=\"Fundraiser Opportunity ::: ScaryNormalMovie.com\" href=\"http:\/\/scarynormalmovie.com\/fundraiser-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\">an initiative encouraging communities to book <strong>NORMAL<\/strong> as a fundraising opportunity<\/a> for local LGBT-friendly programs and organizations. Here is a peek at the film:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BfdJpShy_B8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tickets for the Champaign premiere will cost $8 at the door, with all profits being split between <strong>The UP Center of Champaign County<\/strong>, the <strong>Urbana High School GSA<\/strong>, and the (Champaign) <strong>Centennial High School GSA<\/strong>, once the theater rental fee is covered. Brief question-and-answer sessions with Bechtel and other cast and crew will conclude each show. This follows the film\u2019s world premiere, which took place before an enthusiastic crowd two weekends ago at the <strong>Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference<\/strong> in <strong>Lansing, MI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bechtel tells <strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> that she hopes to see <strong>SCARY NORMAL<\/strong> screen far and wide during the next few months prior to a fall DVD release; can she hit her goal of playing all 50 states and <strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>, by then? Dearest readers can help the cause by attending tonight\u2019s shows \u2013 don\u2019t let Old Man Winter threaten <em>you<\/em> to get off his snow and ice-covered lawn, y\u2019hear? \u2013 and <a title=\"SCARY NORMAL @ Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scarynormal\" target=\"_blank\">liking the <strong>Facebook<\/strong> Page<\/a>, where fans can follow the filmmakers\u2019 progress, add screening suggestions, and share their <strong>NORMAL<\/strong> news!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Be sure to check back at <strong>CUBlog<\/strong> in the next week or so for exclusive comments from director Bechtel and lead actress Welle about the movie and its potential to touch many an audience member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to brave those elements, dearest readers! Locally produced feature SCARY NORMAL engages the C-U for the first time at the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, at both 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. tonight, Thursday, February 21, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[1028,1029,462,1027,457,1007],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-events","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-april-cleveland","tag-hot-diggity-productions","tag-jennifer-bechtel","tag-laura-welle","tag-mike-trippiedi","tag-scary-normal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","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=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}