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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><b><font color="#000000">Rachel Lauren Storm, Assistant Director</font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Women's Resources Center, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations</font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">
<font color="#000000">703 S. Wright St. MC-302 2nd Floor, </font>Champaign, IL 61820 | tel. <a href="tel:217-333-3137" value="+12173333137" target="_blank">217-333-3137</a></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">
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<b><font color="#000000">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></p></div><p align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;text-align:center">
<b><font size="4" color="#000000">4TH ANNUAL FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL</font></b></p><p align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;text-align:center">
<b><font color="#000000">Thursday, May 2nd, 2013</font></b></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;text-align:center">
<b><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><font color="#000000"><font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The Art Theater </font></font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">(126 West Church Street, Champaign, IL 61820)</span></font></span></b></p>
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<font color="#000000">CHAMPAIGN, IL —<span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"> The Annual Feminist Film Festival at the University of Illinois is a student film festival and a grassroots event that utilizes art and alternative media to bring social issues into the fore. The goal of the festival is to showcase independent film spanning documentary, narrative, and experimental genres in order to explore perspectives often missing from mainstream media and culture. Now in its 4th year, the festival strives to serve as an inclusive publi</span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">c space for underrepresented artists and filmmakers-particularly women and people of color-to raise consciousness concerning issues related to gender, race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions of social inequality. All films are between 5 and 15 minutes in length. <b>Doors open at 6:30pm. A red carpet walk will begin at 6:30pm, screening promptly at 7pm. Come get your picture taken in your finest on the red carpet!</b></span></span></font></p>
</div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">This Annual Feminist Film Festival is organized and hosted by the campus Women's Resources Center, with the support of a variety of campus units and departments including the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, Department of African American Studies, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Latino and Latina Studies, Asian American Studies, American Indian Studies, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Department of English, Department of History, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Department of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University Housing, Office of Minority Student Affairs, Asian American Cultural Center, </span><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Department of Art + Design, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. </span></font></p>
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Awards awards will be given in the following categories: <br><b>BEST NARRATIVE FILM<br>BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM<br>BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM<br>FIERCELY FEMINIST ACHIEVEMENT <br>CINEMATOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT<br>AUDIENCE IMPACT</b><br>
________________________________________________________<br><br><b>Red carpet walk and doors open: 6:30pm</b><br>Screening begins promptly at 7 'clock at the Art Theater<br>Q & A with filmmakers to follow the screening.<br>
<br><b><u>Free and open to the public.</u></b> This screening is absolutely free and open to the public. No advanced tickets are necessary. </span></font><p></p><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;text-align:center">
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