Sponsors: Roger Ebert's Film Festival

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

     FESTIVAL SPONSORS 2008
     We are please to acknowledge these individuals and organizations for their sponsorship of the
     2008 Roger Ebert’s Overlooked 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+

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

Illinois Film Office
Betsy Hendrick
English Hedgerow

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
Chevy's Fresh Mex

Chicago Sun-Times
Volition, Inc.

SILVER SPONSORS: $1,500+
MovieMakers Workshops for Kids logo

Bullock and Associates logo

Bill Schroeder logo

Jupiter's Pizzeria & Billboards logo

Seven Saints logo

Leone Advertising
Marci Dodds & Jon "Cody" Sokolski
One Main Development
Max Mitchell
Brand Fortner
Don Tingle
Michael Trout
Jim & Maxine Kaler
Jim Johnson & Coleen Quinn
Bullock & Associates, Cheryl and Don Bullock
Bill Schroeder
Alice Chou & Fred Roepke
Carol Livingston & Dan Grayson
Chuck & Eileen Kuenneth
Robeson's, Inc.
Barham Benefit Group

Normal Theater... A Film Center Anna-Maria Marshall & Richard McAdams
Marc & Nicole Miller
Jerry's IGA
That's Rentertainment
Stan Lanning & Colleen Quigley
Sharon Shavitt & Steven Zimmerman
Stella Artois
Cowboy Monkey
Guido's
Soma Ultralounge
Jupiter's Pizzeria & Billboards
Seven Saints
Diane Kennedy
Sam Murphy & Steve Peltz
ABSOLUT Vodka

PATRONS: $750+

Prairie Gardens & Jeffrey Alans
Bill & Wilma O'Brien
Tom & Louise Jones
Michele Thompson
Lex, Loren & Travis Tate
Ashley Rodman & Matt Gladney
Michael J. Shields

Paul & Martha Diehl
Louis & Sandy Rice
Tom & Sylvia Dunning
Todd Salen
Carol Spindel & Thomas J. Bassett
Busey Bank
Marjorie & George Sodemann

FESTIVAL FRIENDS: $500+

Ed & Nancy Tepper
Dixon Graphics

FESTIVAL ASSOCIATES: $250+

Gary & Connie Wikoff
Dianna K. Armstrong
Dan & Marge Perrino
Yvette Scheven

Troylene Ladner
Eve Moran
Arline Goldstine
Linda Lovett

MEDIA SPONSORS

WAND TV 17

    GIFTS-IN-KIND
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                   BankVertising logo
                    Community Concierge Magazine logo

Champaign County Tent logo

Crouse Printing
Suzi Davis Travel
Leone Advertising, Website Design
Robert Baird, Website Hosting
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
Cartlidge & Browne
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Community Concierge Magazine
DAV Productions
Champaign County Tent

* 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@uiuc.edu
217-244-0552