{"id":8853,"date":"2015-03-10T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2015-03-10T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T18:50:22","slug":"lack-of-naff-no-reason-to-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=8853","title":{"rendered":"Lack of NAFF no reason to slack"},"content":{"rendered":"

At any given point in Champaign-Urbana<\/strong>, industrious groups and individuals spend their hard-earned hours launching businesses, events, cooperatives, and movements. Within all that bustle, you most likely will find something of interest whether as observer or participant, including worthwhile expressions of film culture absent the familiar \u201cC-U Confidential<\/strong>\u201d branding. So, on behalf of the soon-to-be-rescheduled New Art Film Festival<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, we highly encourage our fellow cinema mavens to seek out alternative routes for showing their work this spring within the friendly confines of east central Illinois<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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To start, we revisit the indie-minded Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival<\/strong> that had been set for the same day as the NAFF last April, only to be postponed at the 11th hou<\/span>r<\/a>. Considering its Facebook is out-of-date and Web site vanished, we have no indication Buttered Corn will return at all let alone at the venue formerly set as host, the Fluid Event Center<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in far west Champaign. Here in 2015, Fluid Events has opted to enlist art collective The Common Mind<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for organizing an extravaganza during the comparable weekend, Friday, April 10<\/strong>, and Saturday, April 11<\/strong>, called the \u201cSuper Mega Awesome Big Fun Art Show!<\/strong>\u201d All manner of creativity from Champaign County<\/strong> residents is encouraged in the media, performing, and fine arts; deadline to submit work or proposals is Sunday, March 22<\/strong>. We point out this gig partly because it is tied to this year\u2019s Boneyard Arts Festival<\/strong>, and hopefully some filmmakers can take advantage of it to receive exposure for their work! Write boneyardatfluidevents [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong> or Common Mind video guru Matt HarsH<\/strong> at harshpro [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong> with any questions!<\/p>\n

We also have a pair of University of Illinois<\/strong>-based showcases on the horizon, one consistent in its aims and the other changing form before our very eyes! Thanks to an on-line shout from our friend AJ Christensen<\/strong>, we\u2019re reminded Rachel Storm<\/strong> and the Women\u2019s Resources Center<\/strong> (WRC) are accepting entries to the sixth UIUC Feminist Film Festival<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that will take place at the end of spring semester. According to this Web page, entries are \u201cdue in late March\u201d and should be \u201cstudent-made films between five and 15 minutes in length exploring social justice, social identity, and feminism(s).\u201d Feel free to contact WRC assistant director Storm at rstorm2 [at] Illinois [dot] edu<\/strong> or (217) 333-3137<\/strong>, and read this C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> piece by Lauren Laws<\/strong><\/span><\/a> about last year\u2019s edition at the Art Theater Co-op<\/strong> to learn more about the program.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, assignments in Media and Cinema Studie<\/strong>s (MACS) course 464<\/span><\/a> are geared to \u201c[examine] the history and significance of film festivals [and culminate] with a UIUC student film festival organized, judged, and sponsored by the class.\u201d CUBlog<\/strong> has reported on previous incarnations of the MACS 464 final project such as the \u201cEtc. Film Festival<\/strong>\u201d last year<\/span><\/a> and the \u201cIllini Independent Film Festival<\/strong>\u201d the year before that; for 2015, instructor and fellow CUBlog<\/strong> friend Dora Valkanova<\/strong> has been leading her class to develop \u201cIllinifest<\/strong>.\u201d Call for entries runs now through Sunday, April 5<\/strong>, targeting film shorts made by students currently enrolled at UIUC and any other Illinois colleges as well as UIUC alumni who have graduated within the past calendar year. Show date is Saturday, May 2<\/strong>, with details forthcoming. To keep tabs on their progress or query about participation, e-mail illinifest2015 [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong> or like them on Facebook<\/strong><\/span><\/a> or follow them on Twitter<\/strong><\/span><\/a> at @IlliniFestFilm<\/strong>, oh my!<\/p>\n

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And finally, thanks to the impeccable timing of our extra-special friends Joe Taylor<\/strong> and Bill Kephart<\/strong>, we can report the submission window for the sixth Freeky Creek Short Film Festival<\/strong> is open as of this past Saturday, March 7<\/strong>. You can find all the freeky deets you need about this unique event, a fall staple at outlying Sleepy Creek Vineyards<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, here at FilmFreeway<\/strong><\/span><\/a>; deadline to send in your \u201cshorts of a freaky, creepy, or darkly funny nature\u201d is Sunday, September 20<\/strong>, with the selections set to be unveiled at show time on October 29-31<\/strong>! Awards, wine, performance art, more wine, giant cakes of the macabre, even more<\/em> wine, and various strengths of cheese will complement the shorts blocks in the irreverent Freeky tradition. Click this to read past comments Taylor shared<\/span><\/a> with CUBlog<\/strong> about his Halloween<\/strong> opus.<\/p>\n

Good luck to everyone, as we hope to see your handiwork lighting up a big screen in the near future!<\/p>\n

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

Are your fingers ready? Is your stylus at hand? Time to take notes, dearest local filmmakers, for options are afoot for your work to be enjoyed in upcoming Champaign-Urbana events!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,314,200,13,18],"tags":[1235,420,1439,417,1440,1063,1438],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-competition-du-c-u","category-deadline-du-c-u","category-public-events","category-student-film","tag-fluid-event-center","tag-freeky-creek-short-film-festival","tag-illinifest","tag-sleepy-creek-vineyards","tag-the-common-mind","tag-ui-feminist-film-festival","tag-uiuc-media-and-cinema-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","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=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}