Hidden in plain sight: UW Cinematheque is a small organization with a big mission →

Creating thought-provoking movies that are well before their time, Ohio-based documentarian Julie Reichert has been called the Godmother of American independent film. Her progressive documentaries have earned her three Academy Award nominations and in 2018 she was given the International Documentary Association’s Career Achievement Award. Known for challenging the status quo, it’s fitting that Cinematheque on UW-Madison’s campus will feature four weeks of her films in November.

Cinematheque is an art house cinema, open and free to the public, that is a vestige of a once-thriving film society scene on the UW campus that, at its height, had more than 20 different groups.