ACADEMIC PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Illini Union 1401 Green Street, Urbana, IL

Free and open to the public

Thursday, April 23
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Movie Making & Distribution in Times of Turmoil
Moderated by Nate Kohn
Pine Lounge, 1st Floor

Friday, April 24
9:00 am – 10:15 am
Movies & Everyday Life
Moderated by Eric Pierson
Pine Lounge, 1st Floor

Friday, April 24
10:30 am – 11:45 am
Film Criticism & the Internet
Moderated by David Bordwell
Pine Lounge, 1st Floor

Saturday, April 25
9:00 am – 10:30 am
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
Michael Wadleigh, Academy Award director-writer
Pine Lounge, 1st Floor

LIVE WDWS-AM 1400!
Jim Turpin's WDWS Ebertfest Interview
Friday, April 24
9:00 am - 10:00 am

BOOK SIGNING
Free and open to the public

Roger Ebert will sign copies of
SCORSESE and ROGER EBERT'S MOVIE YEARBOOK 2009
Friday, April 24
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Illini Union Bookstore
Author's Corner, 2nd Floor
809 South Wright, Champaign IL