Roger Ebert's Film Festival - 2009 Festival Sponsors

Film Circle Diamond Platinum Gold Silver Patron Festival Friend Festival Associate Media Gifts-in-Kind

     FESTIVAL SPONSORS 2009
     We are please to acknowledge these individuals and organizations for their sponsorship of the
     2009 Roger Ebert’s Film Festival. Without their generous support, the festival would not be possible.

     FILM CIRCLE SPONSORS: $25,000+

Champaign Co Anti-Stigma Alliance logo

Roger & Chaz Ebert
Tawani Foundation
Pritzker Military Library- Chicago, IL

Champaign County Anti-Stigma Alliance
American Airlines & American Eagle

DIAMOND SPONSORS: $10,000+

Betsy Hendrick
Illinois Film Office
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences English Hedgerow

The News Gazette*
Digital Theater Systems**
Geoffrey & Ann Poor/Balanced Audio Technology***

PLATINUM SPONSORS: $5,000+

Joanne & Roger Plummer
President & Mrs. B. Joseph White
Roger & Marsha Woodbury (Oyster Bay)

Illinois Arts Council
Anonymous

GOLD SPONSORS: $2,500+

Steve & Susan Zumdahl
St. Martin's Bed & Breakfast
Chicago Sun-Times

Leone Advertising

SILVER SPONSORS: $1,500+

Robeson Family Benefit Fund logo Bullock and Associates logo

Bill Schroeder logo Jerry's IGA

Don Tingle logo

Guido's logo Soma Ultra Lounge

Seven Saints logo

Stan Lanning & Colleen Quigley
Brand Fortner
Robeson Family Benefit Fund
Anonymous
Ann Benefiel & Joseph Kunkel
Alice Chou & Fred Roepke
Bill Schroeder
Bullock & Associates, Cheryl and Don Bullock
Carol Livingstone & Dan Grayson
Sharon Shavitt & Steven Zimmerman
Chuck & Eileen Kuenneth
Jerry's IGA
Jim Johnson & Coleen Quin
Max Mitchell
Don Tingle
Stella Artois

Marc & Nicole Miller
That's Rentertainment
Cynthea Geerdes & Todd Martinez
Busey Bank
Ann Beddini - Barb Hulseberg
Prairie Gardens & Jeffrey Allens
Anonymous
Normal Theater...A Film Center
Cowboy Monkey
Guido's
Soma Ultra Lounge
Jupiter's Pizzeria & Billiards
Seven Saints
Sam Murphy & Steve Peltz
Volition, Inc.

PATRONS: $750+

Bill & Wilma O'Brien
Paul & Martha Diehl
Ashley Rodman & Matt Gladney
Lex, Loren & Travis Tate
Hilary Frooman & John Lee

Louis & Sandy Rice
Michele Thompson
Marci Dodds & Jon "Cody" Sokolski
One Main Development

FESTIVAL FRIENDS: $500+

Ed & Nancy Tepper
Dan & Marge Perrino
Gary & Connie Wikoff

Carol Spindel & Thomas J. Bassett
Melvyn Skvarla

FESTIVAL ASSOCIATES: $250+

Dianna K. Armstrong
Yvette Scheven
Anonymous

Robin & Robert Fossum
Troylene Ladner
Maxine & Jim Kaler

MEDIA SPONSORS

WAND TV 17

GIFTS-IN-KIND

BankVertising logo

Community Concierge Magazine logo Champaign County Tent logo

Carter's Furniture

Premier Print Group
Leone Advertising, Website
Robert Baird, Festival Photo Blog
CarltonBruettDesign
The Daily Illini
Champaign Park District
Virginia Theatre
eGIX web hosting
News Talk 1400/Lite Rock 97.5
Project Te, Inc.
Corkscrew Wine Emporium
Adams Outdoor Advertising

Great Impasta
Boltini Lounge
40 North/88 West
Thompson.McClellan
Ralph & Joe, Garcia’s Pizza in a Pan
The BankVertising Company
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Community Concierge Magazine
DAV Productions
Champaign County Tent
Sun Singer Wine & Spirits, LTD.
Carter's Furniture

* The News-Gazette has made a one-time donation of $50,000 toward the remodeling of the Virginia Theatre's projection booth.
** DTS has made a one-time donation of $10,200 worth of digital audio equipment for the Virginia Theatre.
*** The Champaign Rotary Club, Geoffrey & Ann Poor/Balanced Audio Technology, Glen Poor's Audio-Video and Phase Technology: a one-time donation of $26,000 worth of equipment for speakers for the Virginia Theatre.

For questions about sponsorship, please contact:
Mary Susan Britt
marsue@illinois.edu
217-244-0552