2013 Wisconsin Film Festival Dates and Call For Wisconsin's Own Films

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The 2013 Wisconsin Film Festival will take place April 11 to 18, 2013, and is now accepting film submissions for inclusion in the Festival’s Wisconsin’s Own section. The Festival welcomes narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated films or videos of any length that have been made in Wisconsin or have been made by key personnel with Wisconsin roots.

For the 2013 Festival, submissions are only open to Wisconsin’s Own films, including student films. The 2013 Festival program will also include a wide variety of U.S. and international cinema curated specifically for the event.

Deadlines:
Wisconsin’s Own (films of any length from filmmakers with Wisconsin ties) deadline is Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Wisconsin’s Own Student (films of any length from student filmmakers with Wisconsin ties) deadline is Monday, December 31, 2012

13th Wisconsin Film Festival | Argentinian film, Anita voted Best Film

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The 13th Wisconsin Film Festival wrapped five days of screening 211 movies, presenting more than 120 filmmakers and special guests at the nine downtown Madison and campus theaters that opened their doors to 35,858 audience members.

The Argentinian film, Anita, was voted Audience Award for Best Narrative Film. In the film, Anita, an adult with Down Syndrome, must navigate the chaos that develops when a bomb explodes on a Buenos Aires street, separating her from her family.

Louder Than a Bomb, directed by Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel received the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film. The film documents hundreds of high schoolers from across Chicagoland competing in Louder Than a Bomb, an annual citywide poetry slam.

THE 2011 GOLDEN BADGER AWARDS
The Festival presented juried awards for films with Wisconsin connections:

2011 Golden Badgers for Wisconsin Student Filmmaking
Figure in Isolation
dir: Kaleb Durocher and Michelle Chrzanowski

Mary and Bill
dir: Andrew Napier

Under The Sun
dir: Emma Petersen

2011 Golden Badgers for Wisconsin Filmmaking
Anima Mundi
dir: Katherine Anna Balsley

The Bully
dir: Derek Kimball

Haulin’ Ass
dir: Trevor Velin

Instrumental Video Nine
dir: Mike Winkelmann

In the Courtyard of the Beloved
dir: Andreas Burgess and Sadia Shepard

The Mushroom Sessions
dir: Adam Cosco

STEEP & BREW AUDIENCE AWARDS
Voted on by the audience attending the 2011 Wisconsin Film Festival:

Audience Award for Best Documentary Film
Louder Than a Bomb
dir: Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel

Audience Award for Best Narrative Film
Anita
dir: Marcos Carnevale

The next Wisconsin Film Festival will take place Wednesday, 18 April to Sunday, 22 April, 2012.