On today’s show, host Esty Dinur previews the Wisconsin Film Festival with four directors and the Festival’s senior programmer Mike King.

She speaks with filmmaker Tim Hunter, an American television and film director. His 1986 film River’s Edge won that year’s award for Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards. His film, Tex will air at the Wisconsin Film Festival on Saturday at 4pm at the UW Cinematheque. His narrative film, Returning to Earth will also play at that time, and his documentary, By Kevin Thomas will play on Sunday at 3:30pm.

Greg Glienna is an American director and screenwriter from Chicago. He’s best known as the creator of the original 1992 film, Meet the Parents. That film is screening at the Wisconsin Film Festival on Saturday, April 5 at 1pm at the Barrymore Theatre. 

Catherine Léger writes for film, TV, and theater. Her screenplay for “Charlotte a du fun” won her the Best Original Screenplay award at the 2019 Canadian Screens. She joins us by phone from Montreal today. Her film Two Women is showing on Sunday, April 6 at 7pm at Union South and Thursday, April 10 at 5:45pm at Flix Brewhouse. 

Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani-American writer, director, editor, producer, and composer from Little Rock. His short form documentary about the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti won the DuPont award. His film, Yasmeen’s Element is screening on Sunday, April 6 at 4:15pm at The Marquee at Union South.

Mike King is the Senior Programmer for the Wisconsin Film Festival. He also curates UW Cinematheque’s seasonal series and heads up the Spotlight Cinema at the Madison Museum of Community Art. 

The Wisconsin Film Festival kicked off yesterday and runs through next Thursday, April 10. You can find the full schedule in the March edition of Isthmus newspaper or online.

Featured image: remix of the logo of the Wisconsin Film Festival.

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