08/24/2017
We are excited to be part of the Milwaukee Short Film Festival. We'll see you next week. Mrs. Drake screens Saturday evening.
The 19th Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival, named "Best Local Festival" by Moviemaker Magazine returns September 8th and 9th at Fox Bay Cinema Grill. Come celebrate the very best in local filmmaking, filmmaker diversity and the great works of women in film at this year's event.
This year's festival focus is on diversity and women in film making, featuring fourteen films directed by women, including the directorial debut of Caitlin FitzGerald (Masters of S*x and Gossip Girl) with her film, Mrs. Drake. Anticipated festival favorites include Johanna Nyberg's dark Comedians, Carrie Finklea's (Elephant) A Fish Story plus a strong showing by local filmmakers such as Elizabeth Wadium's Selva Obscura, Moriah Bame's Flambé and Mary K Omelina's A Woman Apart.
The event kicks off a batch of Juried films including James Roufus' In America: Red, White & Blood, Hasan Can Dagli's The Black Ring, Teemu Nikki' The Log and previous "Best Director" winner Michael Viers returns with the horror film, Do You Love Me? Also, Twisted Dreams Festival Directors, Stephen Milek and Christopher House will be honored for her contributions to local filmmaking with the "Pace-setter Award" on September 8th.
The Milwaukee Short Film Festival also celebrates diversity in filmmaking with the third year of "Voices Heard", the only film event in Milwaukee spotlighting the work of local multi-cultural filmmakers. The wildly successful program returns this year to screen nine films from talented local, multi-cultural filmmakers on September 8th at 9:00 PM. Those films include returning filmmaker, Danny Villanueva Jr's Don't Cry Papa, two time audience favorite Ken Lawrence with two films, Hard Life and Twenty Segregation Street, Immanuel Baldwin's Till Death Do Us Part, and amazing new rising young filmmakers, Klifford Barkus' Midwest Problems, Micah Martin's Every Black Boy Wants To Be Loved , Ricardo Tenorio's Natural Horror, Francisco C. Torres' Every Moment and Paulina Bugembe's The Homecoming. Actress Anieya Walker hosts this can't miss event.
For more information on the films themselves please go to our website, click on each title or image.
http://www.milwaukeeindependentfilmsociety.org/
Tickets info can be found here:
http://mkeshortfest.blogspot.com/2017/07/advanced-tickets-for-19th-annual.html
Tickets at the door are on an available basis – seating may be limited. The Fox Bay Cinema Grill is at 334 E. Silver Spring Drive, Whitefish Bay, WI.
See work by Chad Halvorsen, Casey T. Malone, Moriah Bame, Craig Anthony Knitt, Carter Green, Vonnie Quest, Spencer Ortega, Kristin Peterson, Michael Viers, Tibo Pinsard, Nella Citino, Ken Lawrence, Ricardo Tenorio, Danny Villanueva Jr., Immanuel Baldwin, Vito Marco Valenti, Shari Berman, Benjamin Mead, Brian Monk Klewin, T.C. De Witt, Joe Lefeber, Tom Reed, James Rou, Trever Siegman, Robert W C Kennedy, David Smulski and Anieya Jasline Walker
