In its twelfth year, the Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, Wisconsin, USA | 15-18 April, 2010) presents a broad range of independent American and world cinema (narrative, documentary, experimental, shorts), restorations and revivals, and locally made pictures from Wisconsin filmmakers. The festival plays in ten theaters, all within walking distance, in the heart of the state’s capital city. The 2009 festival, which opened with Madison-born director Marc Webb’s film “500 Days of Summer,” screened 199 films and had an attendance of 32,645 in just four days. The full 2009 film guide, including work by Agnès Varda, Jia Zhang-Ke, Ramin Bahrani, So Young Kim, Johnnie To, Ellen Kuras, Werner Herzog, Doris Dörrie, James Benning, Brillante Mendoza, Carlos Reygadas, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Doug Pray, Christian Petzold, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Pablo Trapero, Shane Meadows, Lee Chang-Dong, A.R. Murugadoss, Bill Plympton, Ken Jacobs, Majid Majidi, Molly Dineen, Fernando Eimbcke, and Terence Davies, is available here:
2010 Wisconsin Film Festival
Organization: Wisconsin Film Festival
Organizer: Meg Hamel