%
>> Funding forDirector's Cut
% is provided by the University
% of Wisconsin System eCampus,
% providing access to online
% degree programs and certificates
% offered throughout the
% 26 campuses of the UW System.
% Information is at:
% eCampus.Wisconsin.edu
% >> When you lose something,
% you find a way to replace it
% with something else.
% I met her.
% I met them.
% That was pretty much
% the beginning of it all.
% >> Welcome toDirector's Cut.
% I'm Charles Monroe-Kane.
% That was a clip from "NoNames."
% Inspired by true events,
% the film chronicles the lives
% of a group of friends
% in a small town in Wisconsin.
% We're joined today by director
% and writer Kathy Lindboe,
% and producer Robin Van Ert.
% Thank you for joining us today.
% >> Thanks for having us.
% >> Great film.
% I really liked it.
% >> Thank you.
% >> Robin, first you.
% Can you give me just a basic
% synopsis of the film?
% What is "NoNames" about?
% >> "NoNames" is loosely based
% on a true story about Kathy's
% brother and his group of
% friends, just growing up
% in a small town, in central
% Wisconsin.
% Just their struggles and
% troubles with becoming adults in
% a small town where there's not
% a lot to do except go to a bar.
% Job loss is,
% you know, at that time,
% is affecting all of them.
% And they're just really trying
% to figure out what they want to
% do with their lives.
% >> It's really about a group of
% friends.
% We see them in the opening clip,
% and they're young.
% They must be eight or nine years
% old there.
% They were like the best friends
% forever.
% Can you tell me just a little
% bit about, like how many people
% are in their friendship group?
% A little bit about them, because
% that's the pivotal part of the
% film, I think.
% >> Sure, yeah.
% There were six of them who grew
% up together.
% Some of them are based
% on real-life friends.
% Some of them are characters that
% Kathy created.
% So, you watch them as children
% and their behavior then,
% into adulthood.
% So, they're a very tight group.
% You know, some of them don't
% have good parental figures
% around and stuff like that.
% >> It's an interesting group.
% The film is based on true-life
% events.
% How true is the film?
% When we see this film, are we
% really seeing your life?
% >> Certain parts of it,
% but not exactly.
% A lot of it is definitely
% fictional.
% The lead character, played by
% James Badge Dale, is based on
% my brother Kevin.
% And the character Rich, his best
% friend is loosely based on her
% brother, Rich.
% And you know, just some of the
% circumstances that happened
% throughout the film, you know,
% give a through line of it.
% And we created a lot of the
% little things in between just to
% keep it flowing.
% >> It's interesting.
% You have a bar in the film.
% Two bars, but there's one bar in
% particular which is called?
% >> Jack's.
% >> And I see that bar, which is
% basically a house bar.
% It's a house that's converted.
% They're everywhere here, which I
% love them.
% And it reminds me of growing up.
% I grew up in a small town in
% Ohio.
% We had The Gables,
% it was the local bar.
% And like, that's exactly how it
% is.
% That's what people do.
% That's it.
% >> I'm glad that you knew it was
% actually the house attached to
% it, because some people don't
% get that right away, sometimes.
% >> I love a house bar.
% >> It has to be.
% Exactly, it is.
% >> I wish I had grown up in one.
% Do you feel, when you go back to
% that town, this is filmed
% in Babcock, Wisconsin, right?
% >> Primarily.
% >> When you go back to that
% town, and you go in that bar, do
% you see the film, or do you see
% the bar?
% What do you see first?
% Do you see what you've
% fictionalized in your head, or
% do you see what it actually is?
% >> No, I guess I don't see what
% it is in the film at all.
% Though, the bar we used for
% primarily Jack's is actually in
% Milladore.
% And it was a bare stage.
% It was a canvas.
% They were selling it.
% There was nothing in it.
% So we came in, it was white
% walls and a linoleum floor.
% So, everything you see was
% created by our production
% design.
% And we went back there now,
% I forget what it's called,
% Plow Boys, I think.
% And we thought they'd keep what
% we had, because it looked like a
% pretty cool bar.
% But they took it all down and
% re-did it.
% >> Aw!
% >> No, it looks great.
% But I mean, there is a character
% study that happens in any
% small town bar.
% I think that we both grew up
% in these bars with parents,
% and friends, and all that.
% We were the little kids in one
% of the bar scenes, the bad bar,
% that's really based on us.
% We were the two young girls,
% at seven or eight years old,
% hanging out playing pool in the
% corner.
% >> How important is it to be
% realistic for you?
% As a filmmaker, not for the
% people viewing it, but for you,
% as the director, how important
% was it for you to be like, no,
% guys, we've got to do that shot
% again.
% This is how it was.
% This is how it was when I grew
% up.
% Or, did you not care, just as
% long as it looked good
% artistically.
% >> No, I guess I didn't.
% The script, you know, there was
% so much work in the script, so
% that's when that all happened.
% Once we got there, it was really
% just getting true moments from
% the actors.
% Not as much as like, this is not
% how it happened in real life, or
% what I thought.
% It was definitely the actors',
% you know, journey and what was
% working for them at the time.
% >> But it felt real.
% It really felt like small town.
% >> Good.
% >> I liked that.
% I want to show a clip, and I
% wonder if you could set it up
% for us.
% This is Ed and Kevin talking at
% a Fourth of July picnic.
% Can you give me a little context
% on who Ed is, so we can
% understand the clip?
% >> Sure.
% Ed is a marsh owner, and he owns
% a marsh where Kevin once worked.
% He's kind of the father figure
% in Kevin's life.
% He gives him a little bit of
% direction after Kevin's brother
% and sister leave.
% So, he just really wants him to
% make something of himself.
% He sees something in him.
% And so, there's some dialog
% about, you know, getting it
% right.
% Kevin feels like he's kind of
% finally starting to get it
% right, but Ed kind of just needs
% to push him along a little bit.
% >> It's a great clip.
% The Ed character is a really
% important character in the film.
% Let's see another clip here
% from "NoNames."
% >> I'll ask around
% and see if there's anything.
% >> I could use
% something right now.
% >> Why aren't you using your
% welding degree?
% >> You got something
% that needs welding?
% Somebody else got something
% that needs welding?
% Maybe there's a new company
% in town I don't know about.
% Exactly.
% >> You could go look somewhere
% else.
% >> Shouldn't have to.
% >> That's the way it is, Kevin,
% whether you like it or not.
% I'm lucky.
% I still get to make a living
% on my land.
% All those other poor bastards,
% they got rained out, hailed out,
% dried out, and they moved on.
% They didn't have any choice.
% They didn't wait around
% for something to happen for.
% When it's time to go,
% (###) go!
% >> Well, that's just it.
% I don't feel it's time to go.
% I'm just starting to enjoy
% myself, just starting to feel
% like I'm doing something right.
% >> Should Kevin stay
% or should he go?
% Kathy, tell me, what's
% compelling him to stay and
% what's compelling him to go?
% >> His friends are definitely
% the main force, you know,
% keeping him there, as well as
% his relationship with his
% girlfriend.
% You know, he loved the land.
% So the real story about my
% brother, he loved the area so
% much, and loved hunting so much,
% and just found his own peace and
% freedom there.
% But in "NoNames," I mean,
% we really gravitated toward
% the theme of just the friends,
% his family, that's all
% he really had.
% That's all he thought he had.
% But should he go?
% Yes, probably, because I mean,
% he doesn't have a job.
% There's little work for anyone
% around there.
% And it seems to be a struggle to
% survive all the time.
% >> And it seems so powerful to
% me, when I think about it for a
% moment.
% Because it's easy for us to say,
% well he should go.
% Just get a job.
% The guy, he's got a welding
% degree, and he should go,
% and just go get a job
% in the Twin Cities, or Chicago.
% It'll be fine.
% But you're like, wait a minute,
% that's not cool.
% I mean, his whole life is here.
% >> Yeah.
% >> It seems almost unfair.
% And I think that film really
% helped me understand that, that
% there is a lot keeping someone
% to what we might think
% is a dead end.
% But that's not a dead end,
% that's his family.
% >> Mm-hmm.
% >> It's interesting.
% Where is this film set?
% >> It's set in central
% Wisconsin, in a fictitious town
% called Dexter.
% We shot in some small towns,
% Babcock, Dexterville, Warrens,
% Milladore, Port Edwards.
% >> And you both are from central
% Wisconsin, right?
% >> Yeah.
% >> Do you feel like, when you
% watch this film, does it depict
% central Wisconsin life,
% like bam, central Wisconsin?
% >> We talked about this a lot.
% We think it depicts our
% brothers' lives, and their group
% of friends at the time, and
% certainly different kinds of
% groups of friends.
% But it was mostly about this
% group.
% I don't think it depicts
% everyone's life there.
% >> No.
% >> But it's just a little
% picture of how they lived at a
% certain time.
% You didn't romanticize it.
% I watch a lot of Wisconsin
% films.
% And some of the films, I think,
% have a tendency to romanticize,
% which I think I do, too,
% romanticize small town life.
% You did not romanticize it at
% all.
% >> We do in general, all the
% time, just talking about it.
% We're two of those girls who
% always talk about, like, we love
% the house in the country with
% dogs, and horses running around
% and that kind of thing, too, and
% the beautiful landscape of
% Wisconsin.
% We have those stories.
% We've talked about them.
% This one, though, it isn't about
% that.
% It's not about romanticizing
% what just wasn't romantic at the
% time.
% It was just hard, you know, hard
% lives, and struggling to get by.
% >> We forget that rural life--
% We all know about urban poverty,
% but I think we forget about
% rural life.
% It's hard with almost 10%
% unemployment.
% It's higher in a small town.
% Like he said, was there a new
% welding firm somehow opened up
% in town?
% If there's a job, you know it.
% >> When we started filming this,
% I think that's when the mill
% shut down, right?
% >> Yep.
% >> It was right when we started
% filming this, or right before.
% I think we were going in
% pre-production.
% You know more than I do, but one
% of the biggest mills of like 500
% people they let go.
% Right there, in that town.
% So, I mean, all these small
% towns I think are having just
% real difficulties right now,
% so what do you do?
% >> Right, what do you do?
% That's the thing.
% What do you do?
% We're going to show another clip
% from the film.
% This one is interesting in
% talking about the fictional
% story of the film.
% Maybe you could set this one up
% for me.
% This is Kevin and his father
% talking in the truck,
% talking about money.
% >> It's a scene with James
% Badge Dale and Jim McCaffrey,
% and you know, again, the dad
% wanting Kevin to do more for
% himself, and watching him
% continually fall on his face.
% Kevin receives a sum of money.
% And his dad, you know, doesn't
% want him to waste it away, like
% he's done with so many other
% things in his life.
% He's lecturing him about that.
% >> A lecture from dad to son.
% This is another great clip
% from "NoNames."
% >> I don't want to give
% it to you yet, but it's yours.
% >> Fifty grand?
% >> From mom's settlement.
% Katie got hers
% when she turned 18.
% >> So I should've had mine
% when I turned 18?
% >> You weren't ready yet, Kev.
% >> I've been living like this,
% and you've been holding out?
% >> It's not yours.
% >> My name's on the check.
% It looks like my (###) money.
% >> Yeah, I put it away for you.
% >> Why are you playing games
% with me?
% Why are you asking me how
% I'm living, or how I'm gonna pay
% my bills when you had every
% intention of handing this over?
% >> 'Cause I wanted to know
% how you're gonna get by.
% This isn't the goddamn Lotto.
% You didn't just hit the jackpot.
% You need a car.
% You need a place to live.
% Right there, that money's gone.
% Then what?
% >> That's for me to figure out,
% right?
% (sharp sigh)
% >> You can do whatever you want,
% Kev.
% You always have.
% Just remember
% where it came from.
% (starts engine)
% >> That is an intense clip
% from "NoNames."
% Kevin gets handed $50,000.
% He buys a car and a house with
% it for him and his girlfriend.
% There's this great moment in the
% film.
% It was actually one of my
% favorite ones in the film, where
% he says, "I'm not going to blow
% it this time, dad."
% >> It's one of my favorites,
% too.
% >> I'm not going to blow it
% again, dad.
% But you're watching the film,
% and you're like,
% he's going to blow it again.
% >> Yeah.
% >> Why? Why--?
% $50,000 is a lot of money.
% >> Well, the movie would be over
% in like, 30 minutes.
% (all laugh)
% You know, it's such a happy
% moment of, you know, he
% recognizes the fact that, I'm
% going to have a great life now.
% It just can't end like that.
% >> Right, because the external
% circumstances obviously don't
% affect how you live your life.
% >> Yeah.
% >> It's almost like, even if he
% moved, his troubles were going
% to follow him until he gets his
% own self worked out.
% $50,000 is not going to solve
% his problem.
% >> No.
% >> It's not that much money.
% It's interesting.
% You know, I was thinking, that
% dialogue there really makes me
% think about it, and some of the
% lines.
% There's some really good acting
% in this film.
% And a lot of times, with
% independent films, the acting
% really gives it away.
% You can have a great script and
% you can have the right cameras,
% but often the acting
% is a little below.
% Where did you guys find such
% great actors?
% You were able to pay them,
% right?
% >> Yeah.
% >> And that's good, but where
% did you find them?
% >> A little bit.
% >> Starving artists.
% No, we were fortunate enough
% that we got the script in the
% hands of a casting agency
% in New York.
% So, they helped us get actors
% like, Badge and Gillian,
% so we were fortunate there.
% And then, friends of ours that
% Kathy went to school with, are
% some fantastic actors, as well,
% you know, from Minneapolis,
% some from New York.
% So we called them in.
% And then, our locals did a
% wonderful job, too.
% We were really fortunate.
% But it started off with the
% casting agency.
% That's right off of the script.
% >> Yeah, you've got to have a
% good script.
% But still, with a good script,
% an actor can still kind of
% run into the ground.
% >> What's cool about Badge, too,
% is that we went into our casting
% agency, and she gave us like the
% top 50 names of all the people
% we should approach, like big
% names, that would do a film like
% this.
% And so, we looked at them, and
% we're like who's the up and
% coming, interesting one that we
% might not know yet.
% She circled him right away.
% And he just got done shooting
% the "Pacific," and was back in
% town a week when we met him.
% We met him, and he was
% the role right when we saw him.
% >> To go back to the film,
% there's a fire.
% There's a fire in the film where
% the house that he buys gets
% burned down.
% It's a heartbreaking moment,
% just because you know his dreams
% are in that film.
% But what it also brings up, is
% that he fixed up that house and
% bought that house with a girl
% named CJ, one of the circle of
% friends.
% Could you tell me about CJ, and
% who CJ means to Kevin.
% >> In real life, there were
% different people that really
% influenced him and his
% relationships.
% This character wasn't based on
% one person.
% It was one of the few that was
% kind of made up of just
% different people and ideas in
% his life.
% In the film, she's his
% girlfriend since he was,
% you know, 13 years old.
% Met her, fell in love, and they
% were together ever since then.
% And I think it's one of those,
% you know, love stories that
% stands the test of time.
% It's just those two, kind of
% against the world together.
% >> Yeah, they're definitely
% together against the world.
% I think that was very clear in
% the movie.
% I'm going to show another clip
% from the film.
% This one features CJ.
% We need to meet her.
% This is a great moment where
% basically having an argument
% in a cafe.
% Let's roll that clip.
% >> Would you give me two years?
% Hmm?
% If you give me two years,
% I'll build you that house.
% We'll get you that house,
% and it'll be better than before.
% >> How was work?
% >> It was fine.
% >> Did he get you back on
% full-time?
% >> No, no.
% I know I need something else.
% >> So, what are you going to do
% tonight?
% >> I don't know.
% I thought maybe you and I
% could go to Jack's for a while.
% >> Oh, no, I do not
% want to go there.
% I don't want to sit in that bar
% all night.
% I'm getting off late.
% I'm probably gonna have dinner
% with my parents, and stay there.
% They want to help.
% They're helping.
% >> Don't take their money.
% >> I'm gonna take everything
% they give me.
% My dad thinks he can
% get me a job at the mill.
% >> You're not gonna work
% at the goddamn mill.
% >> It's a union job.
% >> I don't care, CJ.
% It's not a place for you.
% >> It's good enough for my dad.
% It's good enough
% for everybody else in this town.
% >> Listen, I can take care
% of us, okay?
% >> No, you can't.
% Not right now, you can't.
% Did you call your dad?
% >> You want your mom and dad
% and everybody else to save you?
% Why don't you start asking
% people here?
% Excuse me,
% can you spare some change?
% >> Stop it, Kevin.
% >> Spare some change?
% >> Stop it.
% >> You want some handouts,
% that's fine.
% I'll get us money.
% I'll buy you that house.
% Anything you want, honey.
% (line rings)
% >> Hi, you've reached
% the Williams.
% Sorry we missed your call.
% Please leave a message after the
% beep and we'll call you back
% as soon as possible.
% Thanks.
% (beep)
% >> Yeah, hey dad, it's me.
% Um, house burned down.
% CJ and I are completely (###).
% She wanted you to know.
% >> Complicated relationships
% in life.
% This film is so close to life.
% What has the reaction been from
% your father, for example, who is
% the actor he just calls up.
% What was it like for your dad,
% for you to make this film?
% >> I don't know.
% First, he's been super
% supportive the whole way.
% I think some things are too
% close to home.
% Some things are tough.
% Some things he doesn't see the
% same way I do at all.
% But he's been there from
% beginning to end, from script to
% onset with us, to production,
% to film festivals.
% And he loves it.
% >> But what about the moments?
% Did you have to pause?
% Moments like at a grave,
% how do you handle that?
% You're a director, but you're
% also a daughter and a sister.
% >> Really hard, yeah.
% >> It seems almost
% too difficult.
% There must have been moments
% that were too difficult.
% There are certain moments in the
% film that I can imagine
% re-creating, not being very
% pleasant.
% >> I think the struggle was
% like, Robin and I had to put
% this face on, once you're in
% production, with cast and
% crew coming in from all over.
% And we told them, you know, you
% don't have to tiptoe around us.
% It's not just re-creating my
% brother's life story, because
% that would be too difficult for
% all of us.
% So, we'd almost forget,
% not about my brother, ever, but
% those moments of how real it is
% to us and our family.
% And then we're at the cemetery.
% And that's actually where he is
% buried, along with my mother.
% And you see my dad in the
% background, and Robin and I
% just lost it a couple times,
% and had to take a step away
% and just think about what we're
% doing, and why we're telling
% the story, and what it means,
% and get back on track of why
% I wrote it in the first place.
% >> Yeah, and it's fair you
% didn't romanticize your father.
% You let him be real and you let
% him make mistakes.
% I think, as a grownup, I'm sure
% he would appreciate that,
% instead of either making him
% all bad or all good.
% >> I think he liked the actor
% that played him.
% (all laugh)
% I think he thought I was
% accurate in the looks
% department.
% >> That's important.
% What about the actress that
% plays you?
% >> Not a redhead.
% The little girls that played me,
% I don't know.
% I mean, we wanted to make that
% more of the story, but it just
% wasn't, you know.
% I literally did disappear
% once my dad and I moved away.
% So, we moved away, and we
% all stayed in touch, but Kevin
% and I didn't have a real
% brother and sister relationship
% for many years.
% We talked, but it was the same
% as it would be with anyone else.
% >> In the film, Kevin of course,
% things don't go well.
% His house burns down.
% It's like a country music song.
% House burns down.
% Things go really bad for him.
% He doesn't have a job, or the
% job he does have
% is pulling weeds.
% It sounds horrible.
% And Kevin ends up where you
% think he'll end up.
% He ends up in jail.
% And we have a clip here I want
% to show everyone.
% If you could set it up for us.
% This is Kevin and Kevin's father
% talking in the jail.
% If you could kind of give us a
% little context around that clip.
% >> Yeah, he just ran into some
% trouble in the scene before in a
% bar crowd, then he went to his
% girlfriend's and caused some
% trouble at her house.
% So basically, the cops have had
% enough.
% They've had enough for years.
% They've had enough now.
% Now he's causing disturbances at
% people's homes and stealing
% money.
% So, dad came back to visit and
% say straighten out.
% >> Well, here is dad telling
% Kevin to straighten up
% in "NoNames."
% >> You could've gotten a year
% or more.
% But the Ryan's
% aren't pressing charges.
% Did you know that?
% They're talking about you
% doing 30 days in county jail.
% Maybe you'll come stay with me
% when you get out.
% CJ can come stay with us, too.
% That's fine.
% But you have got to get your
% life together, Kevin.
% >> My life was together.
% >> I'm going to find him, Kevin,
% okay?
% I will see to it that he rots
% in hell for what he did to you,
% do you understand?
% I'll make goddamn sure of it.
% But you absolutely need to
% make some changes.
% You hear me?
% Every time I pick up the phone,
% I get sick.
% I don't ever want to answer
% the phone and hear...
% Listen, CJ is scared to death
% right now.
% She wants things to change.
% >> You drive six (###) hours
% to tell me what she wants?
% >> No... I...
% I drove six hours to see my son!
% >> Wow, that's a great moment.
% I really love that clip.
% What did it cost to make this
% film?
% >> It cost, our budget was
% around $850,000.
% >> And you made it on film,
% right?
% >> We shot it on 35mm.
% >> That's why it cost money,
% right?
% >> Yep, absolutely.
% And you know, bringing people,
% a huge cast and crew to central
% Wisconsin where, you know,
% the nearest airport is
% an hour or two hours away.
% >> This is your first film,
% right, for both of you?
% It's your first film.
% >> Right.
% >> It's your debut film.
% You raise $850,000.
% How in the world did you raise
% $850,000 to make your first
% film?
% >> It started off to be a much
% smaller project.
% Kathy, you know, she wrote the
% script.
% Kathy and I have known each
% other for quite a few years.
% We go way back, since we were
% like seven.
% And so, she started developing
% it, and had some other people
% involved, and then asked me to
% get involved, just because the
% story was close to my heart.
% I knew Kevin very well, and my
% brother was a big part of his
% life.
% They were best friends.
% So, initially, it was going to
% be small budget, weekends,
% friends, pulling a lot of
% favors.
% And then, you know, just getting
% the word out there to people,
% interest grew.
% So, just by opening up your
% mouth, we were able to get some
% initial funding and shoot some
% B-roll footage, which we
% actually did use in the film.
% That generated some more
% interest from investors.
% We were kind of able to showcase
% what we were going to do,
% give them an idea.
% And it just went from there.
% >> Everyone always told us,
% like, we had talked to a lot of
% people who had got budgets for
% films before.
% And the key thing was that
% everyone said it's around you.
% So, wherever you are, it is
% around you, and you just have to
% keep talking.
% And that was exactly what
% happened.
% Finally, after years, you talk
% to enough people.
% And I think when we stopped
% talking, someone finally asked,
% like, what are you doing?
% We're making a film.
% Well, I want to make a film.
% >> Everyone wants to make a
% film.
% My favorite moment in the film
% is, they're in the bar, in
% Jack's.
% They're all sitting around
% talking.
% There's this old guy who's got a
% bag and everybody yells at one
% moment, "Bus!"
% And the guy grabs his bag,
% finishes his beer and walks out
% and gets on the Lamer's Bus,
% which is the bus we all see
% going through these small towns,
% and leaves.
% That moment was so powerful.
% I said to myself, it's so easy
% to leave.
% Just get on the bus.
% You live in Brooklyn, right?
% >> Yeah.
% >> You live in Madison.
% You don't live in central
% Wisconsin anymore.
% >> We got on the bus.
% >> You got on the bus.
% Why did you leave?
% Why don't you go back to
% Babcock, Wisconsin?
% >> I didn't have much of a
% choice.
% I was 11.
% I mean, I left with my dad.
% And I went back all the time,
% visiting my grandma.
% She lived in Babcock until a
% couple years ago, she passed
% away, but her whole life.
% So, I love it.
% Why leave?
% Because, you know, it's the
% opportunity thing.
% It comes back to that.
% I don't know.
% As a writer, you probably can
% make it anywhere.
% But then, I wanted to do the
% directing, too.
% And there's other aspects that
% are only certain places for me,
% right now.
% >> Why did you leave small town
% Wisconsin?
% >> I left because I wanted to
% take a different path, and I
% wasn't able to do that there.
% But you know, on the flip side
% of it, people stayed, because in
% Madison, Wisconsin, you can't
% have a Marsh.
% In Brooklyn, you can't have a
% farm, things like that.
% >> Farming out behind the barn.
% >> Right.
% >> That's why people stay.
% So they choose that path, and we
% chose a different path.
% It doesn't mean it's bad that
% you stayed, or it's bad that you
% left.
% >> Well, thank you very much.
% Good luck on your next film.
% >> Thank you.
% >> You're both welcome back
% when you have another film,
% or maybe "NoNames 2,"
% I don't know.
% >> You never know.
% >> Thank you very much.
% And thank you all very much
% for watchingDirector's Cut.
% For more information
% on "NoNames,"
% please go to: wpt.org
% and click onDirector's Cut.
% And while you're there, send us
% an email, because we love
% hearing from you.
% I'm your host,
% Charles Monroe-Kane.
% For everyone here atDirector's
% nCut,thank you very much
% for joining us.
% Check the gate.
% >> I like your shirt.
% >> Thanks.
% Wanna buy a ticket?
% >> What do we win?
% >> A case of beer, crafts,
% like this toilet paper holder,
% or something, a bag of chips.
% >> That sucks.
% What kind of beer?
% >> I don't know.
% It's all wrapped up.
% >> What's the big prize?
% >> I don't know.
% >> Last year, the grand prize
% was a quilt.
% >> Funding forDirector's Cut
% is provided by the University
% of Wisconsin System eCampus,
% providing access to online
% degree programs and certificates
% offered throughout the
% 26 campuses of the UW System.
% Information is at:
% eCampus.Wisconsin.edu