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Podcast: A WFF ’18 roundtable

Five Tone Madison writers discuss the 20th annual Wisconsin Film Festival, which runs April 5 through 12.

By Chris Lay, Grant Phipps, Edwanike Harbour, Reid Kurkerewicz & Mark Riechers

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April 5, 2018

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Five Tone Madison writers discuss the 20th annual Wisconsin Film Festival, which runs April 5 through 12.

The 2018 Wisconsin Film Festival starts up on Thursday, April 5, the day this episode comes out, and it runs through April 12, spanning a lineup of nearly 150 feature and short films. Over the past few weeks, we at Tone Madison have been previewing different facets of the festival lineup. To cap off our preview coverage and maybe give you a few more pointers as you try to navigate this year’s festival, the folks who’ve been writing about it got together for a conversation. Chris Lay, Grant Phipps, Edwanike Harbour, Reid Kurkerewicz, and Mark Riechers shared some final thoughts on this year’s selections and traded notes on the evolving WFF experience.

If you need to catch up, here’s everything we’ve run about the festival so far this year:

Thrillers, horror, and exploitation at the 2018 Wisconsin Film Festival

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Mike King on the omnivorous nature of the Wisconsin Film Festival

Animation at the 2018 Wisconsin Film Festival

Background viewing for the 2018 Wisconsin Film Festival

Sounds of the film fest

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A Wisconsin Film Festival 2018 poster gallery

A first look at the 2018 Wisconsin Film Festival

Give the conversation a listen here, or subscribe to the Tone Madison podcast on Apple Podcasts. If you like what you’re hearing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and consider supporting us financially with a one-time or recurring donation.

Authors

A longtime Tone Madison contributor and former archivist for the Wisconsin State Journal, Chris Lay has also been referred to as a “cool ninja” by the Insane Clown Posse.

A Madison transplant, Grant has been writing about contemporary and repertory cinema since contributing to No Ripcord and LakeFrontRow; and he now serves as Tone Madison‘s film editor. More recently, Grant has been involved with programming at Mills Folly Microcinema and one-off screenings at the Bartell Theatre. From mid-2016 thru early-2020, he also showcased his affinity for art songs and avant-progressive music on WSUM 91.7 FM. 🌱

Edwanike Harbour

Edwanike Harbour is a film writer for Tone Madison. She has contributed to sites such as Madison Film Forum and Taste Of Cinema. She’s also an indie-rock aficionado and lover of mild, semi-soft white cheese.

Reid Kurkerewicz

Reid is a writer based in the Midwest. His poetry and fiction appear in Seafoam Mag, Placeholder and Mikrocosmos, and his journalism appears in Tone Madison, Isthmus, and The Sunflower.

Mark is a radio producer, writer and photographer based in Minneapolis, with experience telling stories from everything from film festivals to and DIY music venues to the local steampunk convention to virtual reality. It’s an eclectic clip file acquired mostly in Madison, Wisconsin and Chicago as a freelancer for arts and entertainment publications like The A.V. Club, dane101, HuffPost Code, the Isthmus and Tone Madison. Professional highlights include interviewing the creator of “Evil Bong 3D,” working Laverne and Shirley into a live stage segment about beer commercials, and shoving a microphone into a beehive while wearing khaki shorts.