Insect Fear Film Festival
insect fear film festival annual event hold every spring since hosted entomology graduate student association department entomology university illinois urbanachampaign although slogan said scaring general public horrific film horrific filmmaking purpose event aimed dispel fear insect general public providing relative insect knowledge format generally consisted two three featurelength film alternating animated liveaction short illustrate various aspect insect biology event usually held conjunction insect petting zoo insect art contest activity film festival founder entomology professor department head may berenbaum conceived idea graduate student cornell university deemed undignified berenbaum able execute project joining university illinois faculty festival usually organized around theme included insect invasion exemplified naked jungle swarm metamorphosis cockroach mosquito entomologist every year tshirts year theme designed sold event support relative insect outreach event cost th ifff held online first time popular offering festival according national wildlife federation magazine beginning end feature giant grasshopper invading city chicago consuming radiationtreated vegetable medium outlet covering festival included canadian broadcasting company national public radio washington post new york time