A new documentary film by Robin Hauser called bias made its way to Madison on the evening of Tuesday, June 5. Though the film is on the festival circuit, the screening in Madison was for a slightly different crowd: workers. Nearly six hundred employees in business, health, and education from across the city came […]
Racial Justice Film Series
The Madison Public Library starts a new film series focused on racial justice this week. For the kickoff, on Wednesday, January 24th the Central Library will screen the documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” which traces the concept of “race” in North America and the now-debunked 19th century pseudo-science that legitimized it. Community Shares […]
The anxious rustling of film fest schedules
The 2017 Wisconsin Film Festival will be running from March 30 to April 6. We’ve got three writers leading the preview coverage for Tone Madison—Mark Riechers, Grant Phipps, and Chris Lay. Grant is also covering the festival a bit for the madison film site LakeFrontRow. As in years past, previewing the festival means choking down a lot […]
First look at the 2016 Wisconsin Film Festival
Tone Madison‘s Chris Lay and Scott Gordon take a first look at the highlights of the 2016 Wisconsin Film Festival. Read more about Chris’ most anticipated WFF titles at tonemadison.com. Subscribe to the Tone Madison/WORT-FM podcast on iTunes.
Salad Days: DC Punk Retrospective
WORT welcomes the Wisconsin premiere of “Salad Days” a new documentary on the Washington, DC punk rock scene, starting at 7 at the High Noon Saloon. Director Scott Crawford will tell us what to expect.
Preserving Our Forgotten Culture
All those driver’s ed movies, detergent ads and sexual hygiene films you thought were gone forever have all been saved by Rick Prelinger. Rick joins us to talk about his legendary Prelinger Archives and his new mash-up film “No More Road Trips,”