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Winnebago Man is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Ben Steinbauer.The film follows the Internet phenomenon created by a series of twenty-year-old outtakes from a Winnebago sales video featuring profane outbursts from a salesperson named Jack Rebney.
Steinbauer was named "one of the best emerging Texas filmmakers of 2009" by Texas Monthly for Winnebago Man. [48] Winnebago Man won Best Documentary at the Sarasota Film Festival, [49] an Audience Award at CineVegas Film Festival, [50] Audience Top 10 at Hot Docs Film Festival, the Founders Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival, [51] and ...
After meeting at The University of Texas at Austin, Ben Steinbauer and Berndt Mader formed The Bear in 2007. [3]The company has produced the comedy documentary, Winnebago Man, (directed by Ben Steinbauer), [4] Chop & Steele (directed by Steinbauer and co-directed by Berndt Mader), [5] Yeti's Soul of a City (directed by Berndt Mader), [6] and the "C'Mon Ted!"
Nov. 22—WINNEBAGO — While visiting his grandparents in St. Paul as a kid, Steve Miner remembers nursing an orange pop with his grandfather at a local watering hole near the state fairgrounds ...
Outtakes from Winnebago promotional videos featuring a foul-mouthed rep named Jack Rebney, now retired and blind. The phenomenon surrounding the clips became the subject of a 2009 documentary called Winnebago Man, which featured the curators in several interviews. Rebney himself made an appearance at the festival.
James Young Deer ca. 1910. James Young Deer (April 1, 1876 – April 6, 1946), also known as J. Younger Johnson or Jim Young Deer, was actually born James Young Johnson in Washington, D.C. [1] Although he was identified in the early Hollywood trade paper Moving Picture World as of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, his ancestry is of the Nanticoke people of Delaware. [2]
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Trickster tales played a major role in the Winnebago tribe. These stories were passed down orally and depicted humorous lessons through animals, nature and trickery. For example, "The Trickster and Talking Bulb" tells the story of "The Old Man", who disregards the warnings of a bulb and, in turn, gets punished for his defiance.