PENS TO LENS 2025

The Pens to Lens Student Screenwriting and Filmmaking Competition is returning for a new season in 2025!

With mistress of ceremonies Jaclyn Friedlander.

Pens to Lens is a K-12 student screenwriting competition organized in collaboration with 40 North, Champaign Movie Makers, Champaign Urbana Design Organization (CUDO), and the Champaign Park District.

Local youth write scripts and area filmmakers pick their favorites to produce as actual short films and designers create movie posters for selected scripts.

The completed films and posters are presented to the community in a red-carpet event that honors these talented young screenwriters.

You may also like the following events from The Virginia Theatre:

• Next Saturday, 5th July, 12:00 pm, THE SANDLOT (1993) in Champaign
• Next month, 31st July, 07:00 pm, A CUTC & J. BARRY HOWELL PRODUCTION OF BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL in Champaign
• This October, 14th October, 07:30 am, ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS with CHARLIE SEXTON in Champaign

Also check out other Entertainment events in Champaign, Arts events in Champaign.