edition entitled "One Last Dance". Later, the festival dates were changed to April 17-18, 2026, and the branding was updated to "Ebertfest: The Last Dance".

Origins

The festival is a direct descendant of a program put on at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 called Cyberfest which used the supposed birthday of HAL (the computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey) to highlight the University's involvement in the history

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