Please join us May 2nd at 5pm for the ILLINI FILM FEST Live Streaming Event. Here’s the link: go.illinois.edu/illinifilmfest
We’re so excited to bring you the creative visions from our ever expanding production community at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. You’ll see short films, home movies and Tik Toks from students who may be sheltering in place, but their imaginations have no walls! We’ll see you tomorrow to CELEBRATE STUDENT FILMMAKING!
Hi everyone and thanks for your enthusiasm and interest in the Illini Film Fest 2020 Streaming Event. The semester has been hard for everyone, our many student filmmakers included. As we continue to work out the details of the event, coming to you LIVE on May 2nd at 5pm, we thought we’d offer a few updates and some important information.
First of all, we are still accepting submissions and will continue until 11:59pm Friday night. Just scroll up to the top of the screen and click SUBMISSIONS. If you have issues or really need just a little extra time, send an email to knipp@illinois.edu. We will see what we can do to accommodate anyone who misses the deadline. But please be aware that we have a lot of programming ahead of us.
CONTENT: As always, we are looking for productions in every form or genre: comedy & drama, music & dance, video essays & documentaries, animation & experimental films. But this year we’re opening up submissions to different forms of creative expression to accommodate everyone, from budding directors to students with 90 free seconds and a smart phone.
HOME MOVIES: Send a message of hope, positivity, and re-connection to your classmates, classes, teachers and/or the student population at large. Use your smart phone, webcam, or any media tech you have accessible and tell us how you’re doing, what and who you miss from campus. You can keep it simple and direct or be wildly creative. Either way, we want to hear from you.
TIK TOKS: Throughout the escalating pandemic, celebrities and regular folks like you and me have been staying creative and upbeat with viral Tik Tok clips. These short bursts of creative energy are welcome and encouraged. Tik Tok videos will be screened throughout the program and we think you’ll be surprised, amused and delighted by what you see.
Audience awards will be given! A $100 gift card to the favorite short film; a $75 gift card to the most creative home movie; $50 to the favorite Tik Tok video.
Thanks for your patience, lovers of student filmmaking! The Illini Film Fest is happening soon. Send us your submissions and tune Saturday May 2nd. Stay healthy!
Since the cancellation of the in-person events on campus, Illinifest Student Film Festival has been pursue a forum to continue showcasing the work of our UIUC filmmaking community. Presenting, the Illini Film Fest, a virtual film festival event, providing a collection of recent student films, coming attractions of projects awaiting completion and much, much more. The 2020 edition will feature “home movie” content from our undergraduate and graduate class, creative, thoughtful dispatches as they shelter-in-place. And we’re including a program of Tik Tok videos: show us your self-quarantine dance, a la Jack Black!
Audiences will be able to vote for their favorite in each category and awards will be given: a $100 gift card for the favorite short film; $75 for the most creative “home movie,” and $50 for the favorite Tik Tok video. Award date is TBD.
Submission deadline is April 24th.
If you are a UIUC filmmaker with a vision to share, a student with a hopeful, positive message to send, or someone who needs an outlet for a short burst of creative energy, the Illini Film Fest is here for you! We can’t guarantee that every submission will be included, but your submission is still needed! Short films submissions can use any number of forms: drama and comedy, music and dance videos, essays and documentaries, experimental and animation. If you planned a project that had to be postponed, send us a trailer of your coming attraction. A “home movie” can be a short, imaginative sentiment for the rest of campus recorded on a mobile device, webcam, any media tech that’s handy! And if time is short, your Tik Tok videos can find a place here, as well. Each category of content will have its own program and audience award.
Click to our submission place to find our application and submission portal. Send us your short films, greetings from home, and quarantine dances. Then join us on May 2nd as the curtain lifts on the Illini Film Fest Streaming Event. The movie event of the Spring Semester!
Illinifest 2020, a Film Festival celebrating student filmmaking across the UIUC campus, is coming this May 1st. This year will be holding the event in the Lincoln Hall Theater at 6pm. We’re accepting submissions now! Click the Submissions link above, fill out the short application, and submit a link to your short. The deadline is April 3rd. We can’t wait to see and screen your work. Thanks for joining us to support student filmmaking.
ILLINIFEST IS COMING!
Join us this Saturday to celebrate student filmmaking!