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Podcast: The anxious rustling of film fest schedules

A conversation about the impending 2017 Wisconsin Film Festival.

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March 23, 2017
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A conversation about the impending 2017 Wisconsin Film Festival.

The 2017 Wisconsin Film Festival will be running from March 30 to April 6. We’ve got three writers leading the preview coverage here at 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 of information and a schedule of dozens of films in a really short window of time. We sat down this week, with our heads still spinning a bit, to discuss what we’re looking forward to at this year’s festival and how the festival experience is changing. Give the conversation a listen below and keep up with our coverage of this year’s festival.

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Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon co-founded Tone Madison in 2014 has covered culture and politics in Madison since 2006 for publications including The A.V. Club, Dane101, and Isthmus, and has also covered policy, environmental issues, and public health for WisContext.

Profile pic by Rachal Duggan.

Chris Lay

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.

Grant Phipps

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. 🌱

Mark Riechers

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.

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