Thanks for a Successful Embarras Valley Film Festival!

SPEAKER

Film critic Chuck Koplinski has been participating in the EVFF since it inception in 2004.  Having studied cinema at Columbia College in Chicago, he's been reviewing films for over 20 years for Central Illinois publications including the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and Springfield’s Illinois Times.  A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Chicago Film Critic's Association, he has a weekly film segment on WCIA-TV Channel and MIX 94.5. 

SPONSORS

The Coles County Arts Council, The Film Studies Minor, The City of Charleston Tourism Fund, The Tarble Arts Center, and Booth Library EIU for supporting this amazing program!

PLANNING COMMITTEE

David Bell (Website Manager) is a reference librarian at Booth Library. He earned his M.S. in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. in English literature at Northern Illinois University. He has been involved with the EVFF since 2004 and has acquired several grants to enhance Booth Library’s film collection.

Jeanne Goble (Co-Project Director, Community Activities) has been an associate at EIU’s Booth Library since 1979. She holds English, education, and library science degrees from EIU. She has been involved with the EVFF since 2006 and continues to explore her interests with film, literature, and music.

Kit Morice (Co-Project Director) is the Curator of Education and the Study Collection for the Tarble Arts Center at EIU. A co-founder of the EVFF since the Gregg Toland Day festival in 2004, she has been involved with various aspects of the festival annually, including planning, grant writing, publications, and community activities.

Robin L. Murray (Co-Project Director/Program Chair) teaches in the English Department at EIU, where she also serves as the coordinator for the Film Studies Minor. She is the author of On the Edge: Ecology and Popular Film, Gunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the Environment, That’s All Folks?: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features, Film and Everyday Eco-Disasters, and Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen (with Joseph K. Heumann).