<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="2"><b style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><font size="4">2nd ANNUAL FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL</font></b><br>
<b style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Where:</b><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><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">
<b style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">When:</b><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"> Wednesday, May 4th, 2011</span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">
<b style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Time: </b><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Doors Open 6:30pm; Screening at 7pm</span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Description</b><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 2nd 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 6pm. Come get your picture taken in your finest on the red carpet!</b><br><br><b>FEATURED FILMS INCLUDE:</b><br>The Funniest Thing by Lucas Miller<br>
Spick by Nibia Pastrana Santiago<br>Pants Girl and Dress Boy Fight Hegemony by Eric T. Roth<br>Mid-Afternoon Luncheon by Isabelle Collazo<br><span>----------INTERMISSION----</span><span></span>-----------<br>
This Is How We Do It by UIUC National Organization for Women<br>iWomb: A Labor of Love by Stephanie Murphy<br>Breathing a Doily into my Trachea by Nicki Werner <br>Defining Consent by Cat Calcagno<br>Rose Colored Mirror by Kumars Salehi</span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">
<br style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The University of Illinois Five Minute
Feminist Film Festival is organized and hosted by the campus Women's
Resources Center, in collaboration with variety of campus units and
departments ( a full list can be found on our website). Students,
faculty, and staff at the University of Illinois are encouraged to get
involved on the day of the festival. <br><br>For more information, contact the WRC Program Coordinator at <a href="tel:217.333.3137" value="+12173333137" target="_blank">217.333.3137</a> or <a href="mailto:rstorm@illinois.edu" target="_blank">rstorm@illinois.edu</a>. <br>
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<br>Awards awards will be given in the following categories: <br>BEST NARRATIVE FILM<br>BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM<br>BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM<br>FIERCELY FEMINIST ACHIEVEMENT <br>CINEMATOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT<br>AUDIENCE IMPACT<br>
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Q & A with filmmakers to follow the screening.<br><br>Free
and open to the public. Tickets are available at the Women's Resources
Center and all other OIIR cultural centers on campus. While the tickets
are $0, everyone MUST have a ticket to enter the screening.</span><br><font color="#888888">-- <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></span><br><b>Rachel Lauren Storm, Program Coordinator</b><br>Women's Resources Center, OIIR<br>
703 S. Wright St. MC-302 2ND Floor<br>Champaign, IL 61820 | tel. <a href="tel:217-333-3137" value="+12173333137" target="_blank">217-333-3137</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:rstorm2@illinois.edu" target="_blank">rstorm2@illinois.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.go.illinois.edu/WRC" target="_blank">www.go.illinois.edu/WRC</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.<br>303 W. Locust St.<br>Urbana, IL 61801<br><a href="mailto:briandolinar@gmail.com">briandolinar@gmail.com</a><br>