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A sunny afternoon to you, citizens of C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>! Just as you are pining to read more from us again than the weekly Calendar<\/strong>, we are revving up our editorial engine to bring you fresh posts on the movies of Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond! Today, we\u2019d like to point you towards the upcoming animated Web series TABLOIDS<\/strong>, created by double-majoring University of Illinois<\/strong> junior Andrew Ambrose Lee<\/strong>, for which a $6,500 Indiegogo<\/strong> goal was successfully achieved this past Thursday, July 30<\/strong>. Moneys will cover production and promotion costs for a six-episode Season One, to be premiered at the Art Theater Co-op<\/strong> as detailed in the campaign<\/a><\/span> and then released on-line later this year according to a recent Daily Illini<\/strong><\/span> article<\/a><\/span>, as Lee has engaged a remarkably large crew of ambitious young people from across the Midwest to help. Based on Lee\u2019s personal experiences working on his high school newspaper shaded by a would-be staff romance that didn\u2019t quite work out, TABLOIDS<\/strong> follows the comedic pursuits of five friends: Nathan (Derek Schneider<\/strong>), Shannon (Jenna Conway<\/strong>), Robby (Peter Cowley<\/strong>), Chelsea (Erin Kaufman<\/strong>), and Greg (Justin Klett<\/strong>). On the team is Dan Drake<\/strong>, a semi-regular at Champaign Movie Makers<\/strong> meetings and a Pens to Lens<\/strong> director who also holds the distinction as the only active filmmaker du C-U to have ever lived adjacent to the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong>. (Hopefully, he\u2019s honored the \u201csecret\u201d tenet of our home base like we have!) You can meet the entire cast and crew at this Web site<\/a><\/span> and keep your nose for TABLOIDS<\/strong> news turned to this Facebook<\/strong> page<\/a><\/span>; below, we share their proof-of-concept short \u201cTruth or Dare<\/strong>\u201d wherein the gang passes a little classroom time rather awkwardly.<\/p>\n ~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n
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