10h30am – Getting Your Indie Film Made and Seen On Public TV
Location: Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Dr.
Ticket Cost: FREE
ITVS is the single largest funder of independent work (documentaries, narratives, and animated works) on public television. Come learn about all the various funding opportunities available for independent filmmakers. ITVS Program Manager Kathryn Washington and ITVS funded producer and Milwaukee filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein will walk you through the nuts and bolts of getting your project funded for broadcast on public television.
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MIFF Event
3pm – Visions of the Future
Location: Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive
Ticket Cost: FREE
Wisconsin’s own film industry production leaders will discuss their vision for the future filmmaking in Wisconsin. Film Wisconsin, the new non-profit film office, will lead this panel, addressing how the industry is building for Wisconsin’s next chapter in television and film production with the aid of state tax incentives. Introduced by Dave Fantel and moderated by Scott Robbe, panel participants will include Randy Bobo, Steve Boettcher, Bob Donnelly, Daniel Kattman, Jerry Riedel, Janine Sijan Rozina and John Tanner.
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MIFF Event
6:45pm to 7:15pm - Awards Ceremony
Location: Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Avenue
Ticket Cost: FREE with ticket to Saturday night spotlight presentation Twice Upon a Time
Preceding the Spotlight Presentation of Twice Upon a Time at the Oriental Theatre, this celebratory climax to the festival includes an awards presentation for the Midwest Filmmaker Competition, MIFF’s 24-Hour Film Contest and Student Screenwriting Competition, and the Film Movement Distribution Award.
Note: Patrons must arrive by 6:45 p.m. to attend the Awards Ceremony.
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Woodland Pattern Experimental Film/Video Series
Circling the Space: Body in Film
7pm $2
Woodland Pattern Book Center - 720 E Locust
http://www.woodlandpattern.org
The Fall Woodland Pattern Experimental Film/Video series, presented by the UWM Department of Film, commences with a program that considers the shared concerns of sculpture and film. This program is curated by local artist Jill Sebastian, Professor of Sculpture at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
The video/film works of Ana Mendieta, Mona Hatoum and Joan Jonas have common grounding in the psychological and spatial conundrums that circle sculptural concerns such as body, self, object, material, context, place, dislocation and interactivity.
To be screened:
Selected Filmworks
(Ana Mendieta, 33 min., 1972-1981)
Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta's ritualistic performances and haunting
"earth-body" sculptures of the 1970s resonate with visceral metaphors of death, rebirth, and spiritual transformation. Much of her work expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement. Mendieta made more than seventy films and videotapes.
Changing Parts
(Mona Hatoum, 24 min., 1985)
British artist Mona Hatoum's work draws on her cultural identity as a Lebanese immigrant. One part refers to an organized, clearly defined, privileged and ordered reality and the other to a reality of disorder, chaos, war and destruction. But this opposition turns out to be full of contradictions as inside and outside become interchangeable and in the disorder can also be seen as an expression of birth and the sensuousness of life.
He Saw Her Burning
(Joan Jonas, 19.5 min, 1983)
Based on a 1983 performance, He Saw Her Burning is a surreal juxtaposition of a man and a woman occupying separate narrative spaces as they tell their stories, which are intercut with a pastiche of word games, narrative reenactments, filmed sequences, isolated gestures and objects. Produced while Jonas was living in Berlin on an artist's fellowship, the disjunctive narratives are pervaded with a sense of cultural dislocation and alienation.
