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Panel discussions and other events announced as part of 2009 ‘Ebertfest’

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Additional events have been announced in connection with the 11th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, or “Ebertfest,” coming April 22-26 to Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois.

The schedule of 12 film screenings was previously announced and can be found at www.ebertfest.com, along with other information and updates.

The schedule of added events, all free and open to the public:

Thursday, April 23

10-11:45 a.m. – Panel discussion “Movie Making and Distribution in Times of Turmoil ,” moderated by Nate Kohn, the director of Ebertfest and a professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana.

Friday, April 24

9-10:15 a.m. – Panel discussion “Movies and Everyday Life,” moderated by Eric Pierson, a professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego, in the Pine Lounge.

10-11 a.m. – Ebert signing copies of “Scorsese” and “Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2009” in the Author’s Corner of the Illini Union Bookstore, 809 S. Wright St., Champaign.

10:30-11:45 a.m. – Panel discussion “Film Criticism and the Internet,” moderated by David Bordwell, a professor emeritus of film studies at the University of

Wisconsin-Madison, in the Pine Lounge.

Saturday, April 25

9-10:30 a.m. – “Homo Sapiens Report: The Big Picture, the Last 130,000 Years, the Next 200, from the Bias-Reduced Point of View of an Alien From Another Universe,” a lecture by “Woodstock” director-writer Michael Wadleigh, in the Pine Lounge.

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