Ebertfest

The Virginia Theatre

203 West Park Avenue

Champaign, Illinois 61820

(217) 356-9063

Category

Festivals & Fairs

Hours

April 19, 2023

9:30am

April 20, 2023

9:30pm

April 21, 2023

9:30am

April 22, 2023

9:30am

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Roger Ebert’s Film Festival celebrates films, genres, and formats that have been overlooked by distributors, audiences, and/or critics. These include independent, international, and studio films that did not win wide audiences; overlooked formats such as 70mm; and overlooked genres such as documentaries and musicals. The festival screens one film at a time – so that everyone sees the same films – promoting a strong sense of community among audience members, filmmakers, guests, students, and scholars.

It was founded by Roger Ebert, an Urbana native, U of I journalism graduate, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.