The equipment is still being packed and the tickets still being counted, but Wisconsin Film Festival director Meg Hamel is confident that festival attendance hit record levels this past weekend.
Hamel, in her first full year as permanent festival director, seemed ecstatic with how things went at the ninth annual festival, which brought 182 foreign, classic and independent films to 10 downtown and campus venues. Last year, a record 26,000 advance tickets were sold.