{"id":734,"date":"2009-04-16T02:51:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T08:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:57:44","slug":"cuzineshow-to-kick-ass-apr-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"CUZineShow to kick ass Apr. 17!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the crossroads of Hustle Street and Bustle Avenue, no rest will be had for the weary at the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> as your humble editor is finding out the hard way. Yet, strangely, Miracle no.1 (C-U Confidential 3<\/strong>, coming next week!) and Miracle no.2 (his taxes) have finally wrapped, so that leaves one final hat trick to go – and he’d certainly love to share it with all of you!<\/p>\n

At long last, we announce the line-up of the first-ever C-U Confidential<\/strong> Local Movie Show<\/strong>! We should have been spreading this virally for weeks now – proving in multiple shadings that we seriously<\/em> need to find regular secretaries and\/or staff to make movie magic happen a lot more smoothly here at MFHQ<\/strong> – but we’ll take the “better late than never” tack and simply ask that you reach out to everyone you can to help this little event of ours be the “one that could.”<\/p>\n

If you’re not booked, make it a date with us tomorrow, Friday, April 17<\/strong>, from 6<\/strong> to 10 p.m.<\/strong> at a place we hold near to our hearts, Caffe Paradiso, 801 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana, IL<\/strong>. Three programs containing 24 locally-made pieces will play across the four-hour frame – hence the official show title, “Local Cinema @ Paradiso<\/strong>” – during which you will congregate with a gaggle of filmmakers, artists, and creatives that might<\/em> be interested in “doing lunch,” trading head shots for business cards, and scheduling your pitch session! Would you believe that\u00a0you can\u00a0take part in\u00a0this unique\u00a0happening FOR FREE<\/strong>? Why, yes<\/em>,\u00a0you can!<\/p>\n

Continue past the jump and we’ll spill the beans like there’s no tomorrow! Of course, it would be really<\/em> craptacular timing since CUZineShow<\/strong> is tomorrow. Let’s leave that sort of catastrophic coincidence for the Hollywood<\/strong> scribes and carry on, MacDuff<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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Here is our schedule!<\/p>\n

6:00 p.m. program<\/strong><\/p>\n

A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW*<\/strong> (tr)
\nPremonition Pictures, Chicago, IL
\nDirected by Derek Klein
\nSeveral college students find their lives entwining in strange and unpredictable ways.<\/em><\/p>\n

DISCONNECT<\/strong> (tr)
\nDreamscape Cinema, Champaign, IL
\nDirected by Robin Christian
\nA young woman feeling guilt over her mother\u2019s death finds that a childhood toy will reach back to the past.<\/em><\/p>\n

HOOPESTON*<\/strong> (tr)
\nSynydyne, New York, NY
\nDirected by Thomas Bender
\nA farming community in north central Illinois faces economic hardships and entrepreneurial Wiccan neighbors.<\/em><\/p>\n

INTERROGATION<\/strong> (ss)
\nIllini Film & Video, Urbana, IL
\n2007, 4 min
\nDirected by Anne Shivers
\nA police officer questions a suspect with an unusually limited (but prescient) vocabulary.<\/em><\/p>\n

ONE FINE DAY! Episode 2.6<\/strong>* (ss)
\nPremonition Pictures, Chicago, IL
\n2008, 37 min
\nDirected by Derek Klein
\nThe collegiate lives of several students culminate with intrigue, resolutions, and a dance.<\/em><\/p>\n

Making of ONE FINE DAY!
\nand A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW<\/strong> (pd)
\nWith Derek Klein, Elisha Reichert,
\nBetsy Trevarthen, and Prashanth Venkatumanujam<\/p>\n

7:30 p.m. program<\/strong><\/p>\n

TOXIN*<\/strong> (tr)
\nMystic Films, Chicago, IL
\nDirected by Chris Folkens
\nAn unwary undergraduate must tangle with a rogue military veteran to prevent calamity in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD<\/strong>* (tr)
\nTen Wing Films, Bloomington-Normal, IL
\nDirected by Jason Huls
\nA deadly outbreak turns the masses into undead and the minority into walking dead meat.<\/em><\/p>\n

ACT YOUR AGE<\/strong> (tr)
\nDreamscape Cinema, Champaign, IL
\nDirected by Robin Christian
\nA struggling theater actor attempts to learn about the elderly by admitting himself into a retirement home.<\/em><\/p>\n

PRESS START*<\/strong> (tr)
\nDark Maze Studios, Champaign, IL
\nDirected by Ed Glaser
\nThree archetypal videogame heroes aim to stop the plans of Count Nefarious Vile.<\/em><\/p>\n

FREE ROBOT<\/strong> (ss)
\nIllini Film & Video, Urbana, IL
\n2007, 2 min
\nDirected by Chris Lukeman
\nA bow-tied sci-fi mechanical ripped right out of Fifties pulp fiction proves too irresistible for a curious pedestrian.<\/em><\/p>\n

GREEN STREET BAR*<\/strong> (mv)
\nBlue Bassoon Pictures, Chicago, IL
\n2007, 4 min
\nDirected by Alaric Rocha
\nSmoky rooms and neon hues illuminate the lives of wandering souls to the title song by Lynn O\u2019Brien.<\/em><\/p>\n

ALMOST NUMBER ONE*<\/strong> (ss)
\nR.A.Z. Films, Villa Grove, IL
\n2009, 4 min
\nDirected by Bob Zimmerman
\nAn aspiring musician attempts to capture the tune on the tip of his tongue.<\/em><\/p>\n

CELESTE ABOVE*<\/strong> (ss)
\nJohnny Robinson, Rochester, NY
\n2009, 16 min
\nDirected by Johnny Robinson
\nA boarder examines his life and happiness through several encounters with his cultured landlady.<\/em><\/p>\n

PRELUDE<\/strong> (ss)
\nEssence Films, Urbana, IL
\n2008, 32 min
\nDirected by Luke Boyce
\nA struggling writer and traveling clairvoyant meet and converse in the back of a caf\u00e9 \u2026 but is it fate?<\/em><\/p>\n

9:00 p.m. program<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEAR MISS*<\/strong> (ss)
\nBlue Bassoon Pictures, Chicago, IL
\n2007, 16 min
\nDirected by Alaric Rocha
\nAn airplane passenger\u2019s mind wanders as he eyes a dreamy young Briton from across the way.<\/em><\/p>\n

SUGAR<\/strong> (ss)
\nEssence Films, Urbana, IL
\n2007, 7 min
\nDirected by Alex Beh
\nWishful thinking becomes elaborate fantasy in the frisky mind of a young waiter.<\/em><\/p>\n

ROBOGIRL Series 1*<\/strong> (tr)
\nDark Maze Studios, Champaign, IL
\nDirected by Ed Glaser
\nA warrior cyborg named Huntress goes back in time to 20th century America to stop an alien takeover.<\/em><\/p>\n

WEREWOLF CEMETERY<\/strong> (tr)
\nBrainsmart Productions, Portland, OR
\nDirected by Jason Butler
\nWar between the gravediggers of Ditchtown and the revived werewolves threatens to engulf Amnesia Falls.<\/em><\/p>\n

DISPOSABLE*<\/strong> (tr)
\nDreamscape Cinema, Champaign, IL
\nDirected by Robin Christian
\nFoster-home deaths force a young woman to stay one step ahead of criminal elements.<\/em><\/p>\n

PRETTY LITTLE DEAD GIRLS*<\/strong> (tr)
\nTen Wing Films, Bloomington-Normal, IL
\nDirected by Paul A. Brooks
\nA group of friends realize that their cabin in the woods is besieged by an unknown predator.<\/em><\/p>\n

RAMPAGE*<\/strong> (tr)
\nDark Maze Studios, Champaign, IL
\nDirected by Cetin Inanc
\nEnglish Language Version produced by Ed Glaser
\nTurkish copycat of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II comes to the U.S. of A. via Champaign-Urbana!<\/em><\/p>\n

WAITING FOR GODOT<\/strong> (tr)
\nBrainsmart Productions, Portland, OR
\nDirected by Jason Butler
\nCould this really be the action-packed feature film based on the notorious play we\u2019ve all been waiting for?<\/em><\/p>\n

PRESS START: BIO HAPHAZARD*<\/strong> (ss)
\nDark Maze Studios, Champaign, IL
\n2009, 6 min
\nDirected by Ed Glaser
\nOur heroes return to investigate a basement brimming with resident evil!<\/em><\/p>\n

THE TRANSIENT<\/strong> (ss)
\nIllini Film & Video, Urbana, IL
\n2009, 25 min
\nDirected by Chris Lukeman
\nVampire Abraham Lincoln resurfaces in the modern day \u2026 unless the homeless vigilante superhero has his way!<\/em><\/p>\n

Key: Music Video<\/em> (mv), Panel Discussion<\/em> (pd), Short Subject<\/em> (ss), Trailer<\/em> (tr). Items noted with an asterisk <\/em>(*<\/strong>) are public premieres in C-U. Selections and screening order are subject to change. We may also sneak in one or two final surprises – but you’ll have to make the scene to find out what they are!<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve programed this first edition of CUZineShow <\/strong>in an attempt to give you as in-depth a look at our area’s creative media output as possible in the relatively tight time frame. We hope that you will enjoy the work, anticipate watching the films only teased at, and be encouraged to participate in the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond in any way possible! Since you are reading this here on C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>, contact information to practically all the featured artists are a couple of clicks and\/or a site search away!<\/p>\n

We’d like to thank the filmmakers and production companies listed above who said “yes” to our invitations to dance. We also thank Caffe Paradiso’s owners, Keum Ran Yun<\/strong> and Jin Yun<\/strong>, for allowing us to stage CUZineShow<\/strong> under their roof, as well as ace employee Josh D’Oyley<\/strong> and the Paradiso staff for accomodating us. Let’s also give a big up to the crew behind the seventh annual Boneyard Arts Festival<\/strong> and 40 North\/88 West<\/strong> arts council of Champaign County<\/strong> for (literally) putting us on the map with all the other great art exhibits and events happening throughout our cities and towns this weekend. Finally, titanic huzzahs to Luke Boyce<\/strong> and Shatterglass Studios<\/strong> for helping us get our projection and sound gear in gear as well as Mr. Brian Robertson<\/strong> for reasurring that allowing our Freaky flag to fly at this juncture is a very good thing.<\/p>\n

Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to indigenous cinema? You’ll be one big step closer after you’ve taken in the thrills, chills, and spills (of coffee, preferably in a coffee mug!) at the first-ever C-U Confidential<\/strong>\u00a0local movie show\u00a0tomorrow night! BE THERE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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