New Mad City Chickens vids up on Youtube!

As we draw closer to the spring 2009 DVD release of the Mad City Chickens documentary, we’re also nearing completion on the many DVD extras that will accompany the film. Two sneak peaks have been uploaded today to our Tarazod Films youtube page.

The first clip (shot by our friend Joe Fleischhacker) is behind-the-scenes footage of the MCC premiere at the 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival. We had help firing up the sold out crowd in the form of free goodies including buttons, chocolate eggs and boxes of peeps.

The second youtube vid is one of the many deleted scene extras. With over 40 hours of raw footage from the original tapes, there was just no way to fit it all into the final 80 minute film. So DVD viewers will be treated to a plethora of never-before-seen chicken stories. Hear Elizabeth Arth’s tale of how her pullet named Dolly suddenly turned into a rooster in her backyard.

Mad City Chickens screens in BC Fest TODAY!

The 3rd Annual Urban Issues Film Festival starts today in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, and Mad City Chickens is one of the headliner films. The fest takes place at Vancouver Island University. The focus is focused on urban planning and the issues associated with it. With the immense popularity now of the backyard city chicken movement, it’s a subject matter whose time has come.

BC Film Fest nears: MCC gets blogged by the City Farmer

Michael Levenston of the Vancouver-based City Farmer News blog did a write-up on our recent Wisconsin Public Television appearance with a plug for Mad City Chickens which will screen in the upcoming Urban Issues Film Festival in Nanaimo, British Columbia.


Where: Vancouver Island University
When: November 21, 2008.

PBS chicken interview to air October 25th

We were interviewed back in August by Charles Monroe-Kane, host of the Wisconsin Public Television show Director’s Cut. We talked about our documentary, Mad City Chickens, showed clips from the film and even had live chickens on set.










WPT has informed us that the show is scheduled to be aired on their analog channel this Saturday evening October 25th at 10:00 pm. It will also be airing five times on their digital Wisconsin Channel from 10/24-10/27. And for anyone outside of the WPT viewing area, the show will soon be uploaded to their website.

Emmy Fink interview for the CW Network

The new expanded Madison chicken ordinance has garnered a bit of attention. Earlier today Emmy Fink, the feature story reporter for the CW Network interviewed longtime Madison chicken owner Amy Liem along with the both of us. Amy, who appears in our Mad City Chickens documentary, spoke about how she first got into chickens. We talked about the new city ordinance and how our film helped influence its authoring.

Emmy Fink interviews Amy Liem

Tashai, Mallory Wagman (intern), Emmy Fink, Cory Udler (camera), Robert


The interview piece will air in November during The Daily Buzz show on the Madison CW Network, broadcast channel 57, cable channel 2. We’ll post more details when we have them.