"Real Live" Movie in Wisconsin Film Fest

Filmmaker Nicholas Wootton's documentary, Real...Live... will be screening at the 2016 Wisconsin Film Festival this coming weekend. It recounts last year's Madison installment of the World Naked Bike Ride. Nicholas participated in the ride and carried a GoPro with him. Robert shot on a second camera, driving ahead of the group and stopping at various locations along the route.

Screens 11:00am at the Barrymore Theatre, 2090 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI.

Wisconsin Film Festival: Waking Sleeping Beauty

We attended the Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison this weekend and saw some great films:

Between 1984-1994, an amazing thing happened at Walt Disney Animations--they learned (or remembered) how to make great films again. The documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty tells how it happened, and we loved it. The film was directed by Don Hahn and produced by Peter Schneider. Hahn produced such films as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King while Schneider was employed for 17 years at the Walt Disney Company where he held several titles including President of Animation and Chairman of the Studio. Peter was present at the festival to introduce the film and answer questions afterward.

Peter Schneider at the Wisconsin Film Festival

During the Q and A session, Peter Schneider spoke about a segment in the documentary where Roy Disney Jr. stood up for the animators during a time when they were not getting the credit they deserved. Schneider explained that this was probably a result of how Roy's father, Roy O. Disney never received much credit being in the shadow of his brother Walt. Listen to the mp3 audio clip.

Mad City Chickens PREMIERES at 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival! Read the Reviews

We were blown away by the turnout for the premiere of Mad City Chickens! It was an absolute pleasure to interact with the crowd before the show as our crew handed out MCC buttons, chocolate eggs, and boxes of peeps. The line of people included many of the chicken owners featured in the film as well as Madison’s own Mayor Dave Cieslewicz.

Read the reviews by Kristian Knutsen of the Isthmus Daily Page and those of Jane Burns & Katie Dean in the Capital Times.

Mad City Chickens in the WFF makes FRONT PAGE News!

OMG! With the premiere of Mad City Chickens happening tonight at the Wisconsin Film Festival, the documentary is making some headline news.

Wisconsin State Journal offers up some tasty morsels on the film with a front page spread. Read page 1 and page 2.

Wisconsin State Journal puts MCC in top 5 films to see at WFF

Wisconsin State Journal writers Tom Alesia and Gayle Worland gave their recommendations on the films to see this year at the Wisconsin Film Festival, and Mad City Chickens was among the top five! Here's their comments:

Filmmakers Tashai Lovington and Robert Lughai use just about every film-student technique in the book for this film - including the theme song from "2001: A Space Odyssey." But the result, nonetheless, is a charming, lovable (and exhaustive) look at Madison's urban chicken subculture. A must for local yolk-els.

MCC attracting Press as WFF Premiere draws near

With just one week until the world premiere of Mad City Chickens at the Wisconsin Film Festival, the documentary is getting some attention from the press...

Isthmus newspaper writer Kristian Knutsen got an inside take on the film when he interviewed us for his Daily Page write up.

And earlier in the week, Tashai was interviewed by Gary Schuetz, the editor of the Mount Horeb Mail newspaper.



The Urban Chickens site continues to follow the film’s progress as well.

Mad City Chickens SOLD OUT 2 weeks before Film Festival

With 2 weeks to go before the world premiere of Mad City Chickens, tickets have now sold out for this April 3rd screening at the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Yet, movie-goers still have an opportunity to see Chickens if they join the rush-line before the start of the film. Once all ticket holders have been seated, the remaining empty theater seats go to those waiting in the rush-ticket line. Show starts at 9:00 pm at the Monona Terrace in Madison. Get there early!

Schedule Set for 2008 WFF

Mad City Chickens will help kick off the opening night of the10th annual Wisconsin Film Festival on April 3rd, 2008. The 81 minute documentary will premiere on the big screen at Monona Terrace.

Tickets go on sale March 8th at noon at the Festival Box Office in the UW Memorial Union, Madison (or online), but don’t delay in getting your tickets as the WFF films tend to sell out.

MCC’s Film Fest Acceptance gets noticed by Cap Times

Rob Thomas, pop culture reporter for The Capital Times, did a short write-up about Mad City Chickens and its recent acceptance into the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Mad City Chickens to Make Premiere on BIG SCREEN at Wisconsin Film Festival!

We’re thrilled to announce that our documentary Mad City Chickens has been officially accepted into its first film festival! The Wisconsin Film Festival recently contacted us to let us know the good news. We were uncertain as to whether or not they would take it since we had to submit an unfinished version for them to consider. But they did! We really wanted the premiere to be in Madison since so many of the chickens (and their owners) live there.

The post-production edit is coming along nicely–getting closer to completion by the day. (We have until the beginning of March to hand them a festival version.)