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Wisconsin Film Festival adds to schedule

March 16, 2001

The 2001 Wisconsin Film Festival has added to its program March 29-April 1, just in time for advance single ticket sale sales that began today, March 16.

Now in its third year, the festival lineup features 108 films, videos or new media works representing 21 countries. Audiences can choose from more than 80 events — screenings, talks and panels-with more than 60 visiting filmmakers, speakers, panelists (at least half homegrown in Wisconsin).

Program highlights include premieres of award-winning films from major festivals, “Light in the East: New Asian Cinema,” the D.FILM Digital Film Festival 2001 World Tour, “A Well-Spent Life: The Cinema of Les Blank,” a European film series and films by Wisconsin filmmakers.

Recent addition to the schedule include:

  • The D.FILM Digital Film Festival series Friday, March 30, 9 p.m., will be able to use state-of-the-art digital projection (10,000 lumens strong) at the Orpheum Theatre, courtesy of Technical Sponsors Digital Projection and DataVision.
  • Hollywood’s Darin Hollings (“The Secret Lab”), whose team digitally created dogs and removed spots for “102 Dalmations” and blew up Paris in “Armageddon” (Oscar-nominated for visual effects) will discuss “Digital Special Effects” Sunday, April 1, at 1 p.m., Orpheum.
  • “Digital Filmmaking in Wisconsin” is a new panel discussion scheduled Saturday, March 31 at 2 p.m. in the Madison Art Center with local filmmakers and moderated by Bart Cheever, executive producer of D.FILM.
  • Visiting directors for the “Light in the East: New Asian Cinema” are Kim Ji-Woon (“The Foul King”), Saturday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., Orpheum; and Hong Sang-Soo, who will present three films: “Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,” (Sunday, April 1, Orpheum) “The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well” (Friday, March 30, 9:15 p.m., at Cinematheque, Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave.) and “The Power of Kangwon Province” (Saturday, March 31, 3 p.m., Cinematheque).
  • “Calle 54” immortalizes memorable performances by masters of Latin Jazz, will be shown Sunday, April 1, 7:30 p.m., Orpheum.
  • “Les Bonnes Femmes,” hailed as the father of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave of the 1960s, will be presented in a restored print from Kino International Saturday, March 31, 10 a.m., Orpheum.

    Advance ticket package sales began March 1; advance single ticket sales began today, March 16. For more information, call the festival hotline, (877) 963-FILM.