2023 Golden Badger Award recipients announced at Wisconsin Film Festival

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – The Wisconsin Movie Pageant introduced the winners of 2023 Golden Badger Awards Thursday in the course of the opening evening of the this 12 months’s pageant.

The three profitable movies have been “Carol & Janet,” “Friday Night time Blind,” and “Of Wooden.”

The Golden Badger Award honors movies that signify excellence in Wisconsin filmmaking.

“Getting the Golden Badger is fairly superb,” “Friday Night time Blind” filmmaker Robb Fischer stated.

Fischer’s movie was amongst over 200 up for consideration.

Working within the trade for 35 years, Fischer stated receiving this 12 months’s award was a particular second.

“To know we have been one in every of three chosen simply means a lot as a Wisconsin filmmaker to know that your state is honoring you in that manner,” Fischer stated.

Owen Klatte, the director of “Of Wooden,” shared the same response.

“It’s nice,” Klatte stated. “I put lots of effort into this movie, and it’s very nice to see it acknowledged. It’s simply good to point out the type of issues that may be achieved in Wisconsin.”

The three movies can be screened at Shannon Corridor in the course of the Wisconsin Movie Pageant Saturday April, 15, beginning at 3:15 p.m.

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