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To honor the 25th anniversary of the festival, this year’s theme is “legacy" as returning filmmakers bring new films and films from the festival’s past are being shown again for new audiences.
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Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski speaks with "We Are Not Ghouls" director and editor Chris James Thompson, along with the documentary's subject Retired Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley.
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The short film Trying makes its premiere at the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival. Director, co-writer, and Milwaukee native Emily Alpren joins Lake Effect’s Audrey Nowakowski to share more about the experience and the film's deep personal meaning.
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Filmaker Justinsuperstar talks about his film that highlight's his parents' prosthetic nipple business that they run out of their home in Eau Claire, Wis.
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The Milwaukee International Short Film Festival celebrates its 24th year in-person at Avalon TheaterThe Milwaukee International Short Film Festival is the longest running film festival that honors local filmmaking. This year marks its 24th festival, and on Sept. 10, 34 films will be shown in person at the Avalon Theater in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood.
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The Milwaukee Film Festival had showings at Milwaukee’s Oriental Theater and the Avalon. It also brought movie-goers back to the Times Cinema for the first time since they were forced to close due to the pandemic. Lee Barczak is the owner of the Times Cinema. He shares more about the history of the theater and plans for it now that the Film Fest has ended.
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Outside of the wide array of different films available each year, one thing regular film goers look for is the unique art that goes along with each festival. This year, the MFF’s program guide design and theme was created by Milwaukee-based graphic designer, Whitney Anderson. She shares more about what went into her collaboration.
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"Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" — that’s how a feature-length home movie that is the basis of Oscar Harding's documentary, A Life on the Farm, is best described. The documentary is being featured at the Milwaukee Film Festival, and Harding joins Lake Effect to share how a rural English farmer’s home movies goes from bizarre to touching life lessons.
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Declining participation at Milwaukee’s Messmer High School, which is predominantly Black, and Shorewood High School, which has a predominantly white student population - led the schools to join forces to create a football team. The new documentary “Messwood” by filmmakers Brad Lichenstein and Emily Kuester follows the 2019 Messwood team.
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Today is the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month — a month dedicated to celebrating the histories, cultures, and contributions of those whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.The Milwaukee Film Festival's Cine Sin Fronteras, or cinema without borders, is celebrating all month long with film, food, and music. Every weekend they'll show films covering topics like the Afro Latinx Experience, Immigration and Social Justice, and Indigenous Peoples' Day.