Growing and Learning at Illinifest

How cool would it be to organize a film festival for college-credit? That’s exactly what the goal is for U of I’s class Media and Cinema Studies 464, aka Illinifest Student Film Festival. The class’ focuses on learning about film festivals throughout the world while also organizing a student-run film festival right on campus. This celebration of student and professional short-filmmaking is open to all genres, themes and categories. This year it received 123 short-film submissions from over 20 countries. I talked to this year’s class instructor Dora Valkanova and some of her students about how the fest has grown, as well as what to expect from 2016’s submissions.

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