<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello friends: An emphasis of this festival is to encourage and inspire viewers to think of themselves as makers.<div><br></div><div> Every night of the festival, prominent to the view, will be a huge sheet of paper, with dry erase markers—and Elizabeth Simpson inviting people to come up and write down ideas for films they wish someone (themselves?) would make. </div><div><br></div><div>What do we women want? (film to be?) what do we feminists want? What do we ecologists want? What do we want as people living, locally (how else?) in Champaign Urbana? What do we want to see, as social justice advocates? As funsters, using the chaos of fun to trigger change? What messages do we crave to see, so that we are the change we wish to be?<div><br></div><div>A film showing, yearning to be a film-imagineering. </div><div><br></div><div>Join us in the yearning, imagineering. </div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 4px;"><div style="text-align: center;">You are invited to the First Annual <i><b>Interdependent Film Festival: Women Make Movies</b></i><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="B13F3C75-10E8-46F2-A342-D524EFBCD015" height="640" width="453" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:A1D25DC6-67F7-4766-8032-9718AE66E7C2@hsd1.il.comcast.net."><br></div><br>This ground-breaking, three-day festival (<b>31 July - 2 August 2014</b>) presents experimental and documentary films by women filmmakers from the Champaign-Urbana area who explore the interconnections between art & immigration, language & health care, and ecofeminism & solidarity between people around the world. Besides great films, it also features gala opening and closing ceremonies, Q&A interdependency panels with filmmakers and community members, and food donated by local groups making a global difference in the south Central Illinois region.<br><br>Sponsored by the <a href="http://www.ucimc.org/">Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center</a> and the <a href="http://www.designingasociety.net/">School for Designing a Society</a>, you can see the film schedule <a href="http://www.designingasociety.net/sessions-and-events/upcoming-events/the-1st-annual-an-interdependent-film-festival-women-make-movies/">here</a> and below. Most events are 7:00pm with a noon matinee on 2 August.<br><br>Tickets and festival passes may be purchased <a href="http://interdependentfilmfestival.bpt.me">here </a>(seating will be limited; order early). Or you may donate to or help sponsor the event by contributing<a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=dSURF_2hnhoJadzo4vmMoC4Fv4R6UTXQYEIhT8dt6Texw8ZJGC6RqLZTENq&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d5402c249c5a2cfd4a145d37ec05e9a5e">here</a>. Tickets are $15 ($7 low-income), with special laminated festival passes for $35.<br><br>Food as well as critical discussions with community members and filmmakers also provided. Don't miss out on this unique summer event for Champaign-Urbana.<br><div><br style="text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="text-align: center;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="CAA364D2-1D54-453C-9F8E-F6F9AACBE6E4" height="622" width="480" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:FA3887DD-505B-43E0-8A0A-95F29D66FA7F@hsd1.il.comcast.net."><br></div><br></div><span style="text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><br style="text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div><div><span style="text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>