Milwaukee Movie Pageant will return subsequent month, bringing greater than 200 movie titles to 5 screens at three native venues.
The 14th annual occasion is to happen April 21 – Might 5, on the Oriental Theatre on Milwaukee’s East Facet, the Avalon Theater in Bay View, and the Occasions Cinema on town’s southwest facet, in accordance with a information launch from organizer Milwaukee Movie.
This yr’s full slate of native, nationwide, and worldwide movies will once more be screened dwell and in-person, following two consecutive digital festivals as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
Nonetheless, a wide range of titles may even be obtainable via the competition’s digital platform for individuals who aren’t able to return to the cinema simply but.
“We heard loud and clear that folks appreciated the benefit of the digital choices in 2020 and 2021, particularly amidst many unknowns,” Cara Ogburn, inventive director at Milwaukee Movie. “This yr’s hybrid competition presents choices for an all-virtual expertise (utilizing our virtual-only move) in addition to in-cinema screenings of each program.”
Ogburn recommends making the most of each viewing experiences.
Milwaukee Movie teased the competition’s lineup forward of its full launch in April. Early highlights embrace a Fortieth-anniversary screening of “The Factor”; a big-screen presentation of Spike Lee’s 2020 documentary David Byrne’s “American Utopia,” that includes Milwaukeean Angie Swan; music documentaries “Charli XCX: Alone Collectively” and “For the Left Hand”; and favorites from the highest festivals of the yr, just like the Sundance standout “892.”
“We’re ecstatic to see all our competition buddies again in our cinemas collectively – laughing and crying collectively and letting dialog about movies spill out into the lobbies,” mentioned Ogburn. “And this yr’s lineup is shaping as much as proceed to supply one thing for everybody – a return of all of our favourite program classes audiences have come to know and love, from Black Lens to Cream Metropolis Cinema to GenreQueer to Rated Ok: For Youngsters to Worldviews and a lot extra in between – and fairly merely, two weeks of the perfect movies of the yr.”
Discounted passes and ticket packages can be found now via Milwaukee Movie’s web site, with costs growing on March 12. Digital movie screenings can be found by buying a virtual-only move or an all-access competition move, which incorporates in-cinema movie screenings and different occasions. Particular person tickets may even be obtainable for all in-cinema screenings and in discounted six-packs.
The thirteenth annual Milwaukee Movie Pageant passed off nearly final June, drawing 41,999 digital attendees. Numbers had been down from the twelfth annual competition, which was additionally held nearly in October 2020 and had 66,286 digital attendees.
Previous to the pandemic in 2019, the competition drew a document 87,618 attendees over 15 days.
Milwaukee Movie Pageant is introduced by Related Financial institution, which final yr prolonged its sponsorship of the competition via 2023.
