Bootleg Wisconsin

Director: Brandon Linden
Cast: Lepolion Henderson, Angela Harris, Alissa Bailey, Joyce Porter, Danielle Worth, Frank Pendleton, Tony Abbate, Jonathan Frank
Format: HDCam   Runtime: 74 minutes
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screening in: Emerging Visions
plays with: Let's Get Down to Brass Tacks

Screening Times

4:30 PM, Saturday March 8th - Dobie
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4:30 PM, Tuesday March 11th - Dobie
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1:30 PM, Thursday March 13th - Dobie
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Synopsis:
Katherine, a married Chicago Public School Teacher, spends part of her summer vacation visiting different outlet malls across the midwest. At her penultimate stop, in Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin she meets and starts a relationship with a boy, Billy, who works in one of the mall shops that is about to go out of business. Billy is a born again christian who still lives with his mother, who works at the local power plant, his brother, who is a police officer, and the brother's fiancee, who also works at the power plant. He also still has a relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Heather, who he also works with. The film contrasts this extended social network with Katherine's growing sense of isolation and Billy's feeling's of displacement within his family and community.As their time together draws to a close Billy takes Katherine for a walk in the woods where their relationship reaches a crisis point neither imagained. They must decide wether to go forward to the next stage of their lives or resist it.

Director's Bio:
Brandon Linden (b. 1972) is an educator and filmmaker born, raised, and living in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago. He is a graduate of DePaul University where he majored in English and Secondary Education. He has owned two daycares in the Chicago area. For the past ten years he has taught film history and aesthetics at Facets Multimedia. The film was shot throught the winter of 2007 and editing was delayed when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer but was completed, along with her subsequent chemotherapy through the rest of 2007.This is his first feature film.