SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - Sheboygan will be the next spot in Wisconsin to feature a screening of “Cheeseheads, a Documentary”. The scheduled time for showing will be 2 p.m. Sunday.
The event is being put on by the Mead Public Library Foundation, and Board President Bernie Markevitch says the event Sunday will be all out. That includes showing the movie at the Weill Center in downtown Sheboygan. This whole program is free and open to the public. If you’ve seen any of the posters they’re invited to wear costumes. They’re treating it as a red carpet premier, although it’s just the Sheboygan premier, it’s premiered in other places.” He adds the Sheboygan event is being copied by the Madison library when they show the movie later this year.
Markevitch says the event will also include an appearance from producer John Mitchell. “After the film is over I’m going to introduce (John Mitchell) to the public, and then we’re going to have a short question and answer period at the Weill Center; and if the audience has questions we’ll let it go as long as it can."
This will be followed by a special event at the library for what Markevitch says is a quasi-tailgate party. "We’re having bratwurst, bite-sized bratwurst with dipping sauces and raw beef all from Miesfeld’s. Wisconsin cheese, cheese curds, which are prominent in this film, and some apple, Door County cherry desserts.”
As for the move itself, it is all about what makes the Badger State unique. Markevitch says he has seen it several times and can't get enough of it. “Once you see it you can watch it again, there might be some space in between the times that you do, but it’s got a bragging effect to it that this is where I’m from. You know something…God made trees but he didn’t make them like the ones that we have here. And when you think about the variety and the climate and how different it is when you go to the western side of the state and how completely different to the northern side of the state, but it’s still all Wisconsin. You’re going to find more than anything that it’s the people that make this state great. Its God country as far as the visuals, but it’s the people that make us who and what we are.”
Copies of the movie will be made available for sale at the after party for $20. Markevitch says five-dollars of that will go towards buying copies to donate to every library and school in the state.