{"id":7282,"date":"2014-04-10T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:47:04","slug":"sunday-is-a-film-festival-funday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7282","title":{"rendered":"Sunday is a film festival funday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Note: A scant few hours after the following article went live, we received word the Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival<\/strong> directors had decided to postpone their comeback event set for this Sunday, April 13<\/strong>, at Fluid Event Center<\/strong> in Champaign<\/strong>. It\u2019s unfortunate but, sometimes, those mysterious forces beyond our control thwart best intentions. For now, we\u2019ll leave our story up \u201cas is\u201d so you can learn about their plans for BCOC; assuming they reschedule in the near future, we\u2019ll revise and repost at that time. Thanks!<\/em> \u2013 ed.]<\/p>\n

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It seems that \u201cpop-ups\u201d are the Next Hip Thing in Champaign-Urbana<\/strong>. Small business owners who do not have a physical storefront take up temporary residence within existing spaces to sell their wares, be it arts, crafts, plants, food, or what have you. It is truly an \u201canything goes\u201d concept if the space allows, so<\/em>, why could that not apply to movies? We\u2019ll let that thought percolate for a spell as we discuss a more formal arrangement between venue and event, the latter bouncing back from apparent obscurity after vacating the 2013 calendar…<\/p>\n

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Unbeknownst to most in the C-U until very recently, the New Art Film Festival<\/strong> will be sharing this Sunday, April 13<\/strong>, with a second<\/em> indie cinema show! The Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> makes its belated return to the area from 12 p.m.<\/strong> to approximately 7 p.m.<\/strong> at the Fluid Event Center<\/span><\/a>, 601 N. Country Fair Drive, Champaign<\/strong>, ending a two-year-long hiatus. Its 2011 and 2012 shows at the former 88 Broadway<\/strong> space in the Lincoln Square Village<\/strong> of downtown Urbana were originally set up by organizers Ludo van der Hout<\/strong> and Sasan Shabrou<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as a \u201cpop-up screening room\u201d of sorts. We presume admission will be free as in previous years.<\/p>\n

As you can tell from this post and the itinerary, shared after the jump, Buttered Corn has not offered much in the way of details on the films themselves. Potential attendees can willingly go in blind and hope to see pleasant surprises \u2013 that is one of the core tenets of the film festival experience, after all \u2013 or use their mad Google<\/strong> skills to look up titles on the list and make an educated decision as to whether the trek out to far west Champaign will be worth it. We did<\/em> find on-line presence for the features just for you, dearest readers. MY LIFE IS A MOVIE<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is a no-budget drama from St. Louis<\/strong> filmmaker Dale Ward<\/strong> about siblings who run away from home, their adventures captured on an iPhone, and COMMUNITY SERVICE<\/span><\/a><\/strong> is a serial killer yarn made in upstate New York<\/strong> by director Joe Kelly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It might be worthwhile to pop open the Buttered Corn Facebook<\/strong> page<\/span><\/a> a few times between now and Sunday to see if any late-inning announcements or incentives are posted!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em> Buttered Corn and the NAFF overlap by two hours or so. We do recommend that you attend both, even if that means missing a few selections at one or the other. Our collective film spy network will<\/em> be watching for you, just so you know.<\/p>\n

p.s.2<\/em> Buttered Corn is not related to the indie literary journal-with-a-cinematic-twist, The Popcorn Farm<\/strong><\/span>, which we reported on just last month<\/span><\/a>. Yet, the mind now boggles with kernels of cross-over ideas\u2026<\/p>\n

[Updated 4\/10\/14, 11:40 p.m. CST]<\/p>\n

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Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival \u2013 Complete Schedule<\/strong>
\n @ Fluid Event Center, Champaign, IL<\/strong>
\n April 13, 2014, 12 p.m.-7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FREE ADMISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Feature Film Block 1 :: 100 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MY LIFE IS A MOVIE \/ Dale Ward<\/p>\n


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Short Film Block 1 :: 40 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CURIOSITY KILLS \/ Sander Maran
\nGAME COMPANION \/ James Monson & Brian Morelan
\nTHE BOX \/ Hugo Martinez
\nTHE FANCY DRESS \/ Leah Mann<\/p>\n


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International Film Block :: 70 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EL HOMBRE EQUIVOCADO \/ Roberto Goni
\nFORTUNE FADED \/ Alexandere Heringer
\nHISTORIA MUERTA \/ Fran Mateu
\nLA MIRADA PERDI \/ Damian Dioniso
\nSINCERIDAD \/ Andrea Casaseca
\nNGUTU \/ Daniel Valledor & Felipe Olmo
\nSCARLET \/ Charlotte Rose Palmer & Jamie Weston
\nWRONG PLACE WRONG CRIME \/ Florian Puchert<\/p>\n


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Feature Film Block 2 :: 75 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

COMMUNITY SERVICE \/ Joe Kelly<\/p>\n


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Short Film Block 2 :: 80 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n

HOME SWEET HOME \/ Adam Krause
\nHUSK \/ Matt Packman
\nIT\u2019S ABOUT TIME: THE CORNPOCALYPSE \/ Scott Lehman
\nTURTLE BANDITS \/ Adam Carbone<\/p>\n

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It’s time to test the stamina of those stationary glutes, dearest viewers, as we direct your attention to the other Champaign film event on Sunday, April 13, 2014, the third Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[508,1235,1234,230],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-public-events","tag-buttered-corn-on-the-cob-film-festival","tag-fluid-event-center","tag-ludo-van-der-hout","tag-sasan-shabrou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","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=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}