Category: Illinifest 2019
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.
2016 Showcase Announcement
Illinifest is proud to announce that this year we have received 123 films from over 20 countries! Our global outreach this year has set a new precedent for this student-curated festival. At this time all the films received have been viewed by the Programming and Submissions team. All the submissions were carefully ranked in their appropriate […]
Save the Date!
It’s confirmed! Illinifest 2016 will take place on April 24th in 112 Gregory Hall. Gregory Hall is located on the Main Quad of the University of Illinois. We’ve already received a wide range of submissions from filmmakers in the midwest and all over the world! The first submission period ends March 10th. Gregory Hall, […]
Submit Your Films Now!
The Call for Submissions for Illinifest 2016 is now live! Please see the Call For Entries flyer, or click on the SUBMIT tab for more information on who is considered an eligible participant for both In and Out of Competition categories. Regular Submission Deadline: March 10, 2016; Late Submission Deadline: March 20, 2016
Panel Discussions
There will be two panel discussions during Illinifest. The morning panel discussion is titled The Transition from College to Career in Film. The speakers leading this discussion are: Luke Boyce, Anthony Cabral, Brett Hays, Jon Santiago and Ilyssa Fradin. The afternoon panel discussion will focus on Diversity in Cinema. The panel speakers for this discussion are Hong-An Wu, Megan Condis, and Brian […]