The coronavirus is having a devastating impact on film festivals. San Francisco and RiverRun International Film Festivals have canceled.
Ebertfest
NAME OF FESTIVAL: Ebertfest
SINCE: 1999
WHERE: Champaign, Illinois, United States
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Founded in 1999 by the late Roger Ebert, University of Illinois Journalism graduate and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, Roger Ebert’s Film Festival (Ebertfest) celebrates films that haven’t received the recognition they deserved during their original runs. The festival gives these films and their filmmakers a well-deserved second look.
25th Anniversary of THE FUGITIVE Starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones will Open 2018 Ebertfest
The Fugitive directed by Andrew Davis, and starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, will open this year’s 20th anniversary celebration of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, co-founded and hosted by Chaz Ebert and also known as ‘Ebertfest.”