The Illinifest Student Film Festival celebrates the creativity and diversity of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign film production communities. Our mission is to provide a showcase for the talent, ingenuity and vison across the UIUC campus. The Festival features productions from Illini Film and Video, Photon Pictures, the C-U Cinefiles, College of Media production classes and independent student projects. We welcome a variety of submissions: short narratives and documentary, experimental films, video essays, animation. Illinifest is committed to creating and sustaining a platform through which these student productions can be shared with the University and the Champaign-Urbana community.
Illinifest is open to all UIUC student film makers. The 2019 Illinifest Student Film Festival deadline for submission is April 14th, 2019. The event is April 27th, 2019 in the Gregory Hall Theater, Gregory Hall.
Photon Pictures was founded by Chinese International students of UIUC in 2009, it has become the biggest Chinese video and media organization on campus. We focus on producing independent films in different genres, including drama, horror, sci-fi and school romance. Some films even win awards in regional film festivals. The standing members of Photon Pictures […]
Illini Film and Video is the premier film & video production organization at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We write and produce our own films and videos based on pitches that members give to the club. We also collaborate with other organizations in the community for whatever video needs they might have. We also host […]
Illinifest is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s student film festival; produced, programmed and curated by UIUC students. The content has long featured the best examples of short-form student filmmaking from around the world. In 2019, Illinifest has shifted its focus to highlight the thriving filmmaking community from our very own campus. The 2019 program consists […]
We are proud to announce this year’s winners from the Illinifest Student Film Festival!! Grand Jury: Exist Best Picture-Midwest: Lightswitch Best Director-Midwest: Nick Kinder (Lightswitch) Best Screenplay – Midwest: Homecoming Best Cinematography – Midwest Student: Painted Red Best Actor: Olle Frelin (Schoolyard Blues) Best Actress: Florence Monge (Blessed Days) Best Sound Design: Sequential Social Impact […]
The films in this year’s Official Selection cover a broad spectrum of topics and themes, with the intention of representing as wide of a swath of human experience as our submission pool allowed. These are not films that seek to give easy answers or leave their stories wrapped up in a neat bow, but to […]