Stills from films to be featured at the 2004 Wisconsin Film Festival.
Additional high resolution images are available from the Wisconsin Film Festival. Please contact Becca Ekern at becca@funnelinc.com or Mary Carbine at mccarbine@wisc.edu.
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still from Afro-Punk, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival
in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. With its title
a direct rebuke to the Patti Smith song, Afro-Punk: The "Rock 'n Roll
Nigger" Experience by James Spooner takes an in-depth look at racial identity
in the punk scene.
Photo by: courtesy James Spooner
Date: February 2004
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still from Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin, to be featured in
the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through
Sunday, April 4, 2004. Charlie, a new documentary by UW-Madison alumnus and
Time film critic Richard Schickel, will be presented with Schickel in person.
The still is originally from Chaplin's Modern Times.
Photo by: courtesy Warner Home Video
Date: February 2004
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still from Chaza Show Choir, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film
Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Chaza
Show Choir features the musical adventures of a plucky high school choir and
band members who are invited to compete in Germany, only to be forced to work
in a wienerschnitzel factory. High energy performances and can-do attitudes
animate this feature co-directed by Milwaukee's Theresa Columbus of the Darling
Hall independent performance space, and Didier Leplae, co-director of the 2001
Wisconsin's Own Best Narrative Feature, The Foreigners.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: February 2004
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still from The Corporation, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film
Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. The Corporation,
a new film by Mark Achbar (co-director of the acclaimed Manufacturing Consent:
Noam Chomsky and The Media) and Jennifer Abbott, engages us in a darkly amusing
account of the institution's birth as a legal "person" whose prime
directive is to produce ever-increasing profit.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: February 2004
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still from Divan, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival
in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. In the documentary
Divan, filmmaker Pearl Gluck travels from Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community
to her roots in Hungary to retrieve a family heirloom.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: February 2004
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still from Face, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival
in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004.
Face, the debut feature from Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, presents a family drama of
conflict between traditional Chinese-American values and the pressures of urban
American life, presented with director Pan in person.
Photo by: courtesy Indican Pictures
Date: February 2004
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still from Festival Express, which kicks off opening night of the sixth annual
Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April
4, 2004. Festival Express features newly released footage of Janis Joplin,
the Grateful Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy and others, jamming and partying as
they tour across Canada.
Photo by: courtesy ThinkFilm
Date: February 2004
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still from The Green Butchers, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin
Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004.
Part of the Festival series Danish Cinema Beyond Dogme, The Green Butchers,
a terrifically funny and unexpectedly touching Sweeney Todd tale from the gifted
Anders Thomas Jensen (Flickering Lights).
Photo by: Rolf Konow/courtesy Newmarket Films / Danish Film
Institute
Date: February 2004
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Film still from James' Journey to Jerusalem, to be featured in the sixth
annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday,
April 4, 2004. Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe stars in James' Journey to Jerusalem
by Israeli director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: January 2004
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Film still from Jockey, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin
Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Apprentice
rider Chris Rosier rides in Jockey, a documentary film by Kate Davis (Southern
Comfort) and David Heilbroner.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: January 2004
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Film still from Nói Albinói, to be featured in the sixth
annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday,
April 4, 2004. Tómas Lemarquis stars as the title character in Nói
Albinói, directed by Dagur Kári.
Photo by: courtesy Palm Pictures
Date: January 2004
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still from Refugee, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival
in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Refugee, Spencer
Nakasako's award-winning documentary on a young Cambodian-American who returns
to Cambodia to meet his long-lost father and brother, is part of the Festival's
Asian American cinema series.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: February 2004
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Film still from Since Otar Left, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin
Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Winner
of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Julie
Bertuccelli's exquisite Since Otar Left is a sweet, accomplished fable of loss
and self-deception in the post-Soviet world, starring 90-year-old Esther Gorintin.
Photo by: courtesy Zeitgeist Films
Date: January 2004
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still from Stone Reader, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film
Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. Stone
Reader is the acclaimed literary mystery story chronicling filmmaker Mark Moskowitz's
year-long search for Dow Mossman, author of the The Stones of Summer, presented
with Moskowitz in person.
Photo by: courtesy Jet Films
Date: February 2004
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still from Ticket to Jerusalem, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin
Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004.
Ticket to Jerusalem, an inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction about a
Palestinian film projectionist in a refugee camp near Ramallah, is part of
the Global Film Initiative's "Global Lens" series. The series presents
feature films from developing countries to raise cross-cultural awareness through
cinema. In a related outreach program, on April 2, the UW College of Letters & Science
(L & S) will host "World Cinema Day," an educational program
for high school students patterned on the successful L & S "World
Languages Day."
Photo by: courtesy Global Film Initiative
Date: February 2004
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Film still from Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, to be featured in the sixth
annual Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday,
April 4, 2004. Jamie Sives (left) and Shirley Henderson (right) star in Wilbur
Wants to Kill Himself, the English-language debut from acclaimed Danish director
Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners), a romantic dark comedy about two very
different brothers who both fall in love with the same woman.
Photo by: courtesy Wisconsin Film Festival
Date: January 2004
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still from The Yes Men, to be featured in the sixth annual Wisconsin Film Festival
in Madison, Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4, 2004. The Yes Men is
a hilarious and illuminating documentary of prankster-activism and protest
against the World Trade Organization from Milwaukee's own Chris Smith, Sarah
Price and Dan Ollman.
Photo by: courtesy United Artists
Date: February 2004
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