The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival Presents a Screening of Howl

The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival jump-starts Milwaukee's fall film festival season with a special advanced screening of the highly anticipated new film Howl, from acclaimed documentarians Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk) and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet).

James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg in this remarkable, genre-bending anthology of episodes - a hybrid of biopic, staged recreations, defiant declaration, and animation - that chronicles both Ginsberg's emerging life as a poet and the landmark 1957 obscenity trail that tried to suppress his writings.

Directed by Epstein and Friedman, with cinematography by Ed Lachman and music by Carter Burwell, the film features a talented cast, including Franco, Jon Hamm, David Straithairn, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, Alesssandro Nivola, and Bob Balaban. Howl was presented as the Opening Night Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in January, and showcased at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

View the trailer here: http://www.oscilloscope.net/

"It's always great -- and appropriate, I think -- for the LGBT Film/Video Festival to have the opportunity to present a film that champions freedom of expression and it's really exciting to be partnering with such front-line advocates on this issue," said Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival director Carl Bogner, of the UWM Peck School of the Arts Film Department.

Howl is co-sponsored by the UWM Union Theatre and Equality Wisconsin, and co-presented by Woodland Pattern Book Center, the Milwaukee Public Library, UWM Libraries, Milwaukee Film, and the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation in anticipation of Banned Book Week, September 25 - October 2.

Date: Wednesday, September 15
Time: 7pm
Location: UWM Union Theatre.
Tickets: $9 General Admission/$7 for students and seniors.

Discounted ticket prices are also available to Woodland Pattern Book Center members, card-carrying members of the ACLU, and anyone presenting their Milwaukee Public Library card.

Purchasing a Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival pass - either a General Pass or a Fiver - will also secure admission to this special screening. Film/Video Festival passes will be on sale at the UWM Union Theatre on the night of the screening.

Tickets to Howl will be available at the Peck School of the Arts Box Office, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd, starting on September 1 and at the UWM Union Theatre one hour before the screening on September 15.

About the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
One of Milwaukee's longest running film festivals returns October 21-24 for its 23rd year. The Festival is presented by the UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts Film Department and is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Johnson & Pabst LGBT Humanity Fund; the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Eldon E. Murray Foundation Fund; Jack H. Smith of Shorewest Realtors; the Cream City Foundation; Door County Visitor Bureau; UWM Union Programming and the UWM Union Theatre; the UWM LGBT Resource Center; the UWM Women's Resource Center; the UWM LGBT Studies Certificate program; UWM's Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies; the Center for International Education at UWM; the Center for Jewish Studies and the contributions of other community and campus organizations, businesses and individuals. More information about the Festival can be found at http://arts.uwm.edu/lgbtfilm.

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