Milwaukee Short Film Festival This September
Milwaukee Independent Film Society presents the 11th Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival This September
The Milwaukee Independent Film Society presents the Milwaukee Short Film Festival, the longest running film festival in Milwaukee. The festival will be a three day event taking place September 11th-13th. Featuring 44 films from around the world we will also focus on local filmmakers with 19 films representing Wisconsin.
Friday, September 11th the Milwaukee Independent Film Society has chosen to honor Kathy Fischer and Mark Metcalf with the Milwaukee Independent Film Society Pacesetter Award. The Milwaukee Independent Film Society Pacesetter Award is bestowed upon individuals whom work to advance film in Wisconsin. This event will be held at the Eisner American Museum of Art and Design. Rishi Tea will host a reception starting at 7:00PM. FM102.1's Adler will M.C. the evening. There will be several films shown including: "How To Not Kill Everyone" a film by Kathy Fischer (with Mark Metcalf) and "No Good Reason" a film featuring Natalie Merchant.
There will be several shows Saturday, September 12th at the Milwaukee Art Museum's Lubar Auditorium. Milwaukee Short Film Festival's Saturday events start at 1:00PM, 2:30PM, and 6:30PM. The Milwaukee Independent Film Society will also present the Korporate Media Event at 5:00PM and the World premiere of "New Day" at 9:15PM. The Korporate Media Event (http://korporate-media.com ) is guerilla film-producing at it's best. "New Day" is the first feature film from L'oiseau Blanc Films (http://www.loiseaublancfilms.com/new-day.html ) produced by R. Michael Gull, Jon Anne Willow and Jason Williams.
Sunday, September 13th will close the 11th Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival at the Oriental Theater. The MSFF will present the Best Film and Best Wisconsin Film awards as well as certificates for Best Actor and Audience Favorite. Showtime is 6:45PM. There will be an after party at Live on North immediately following with Sprecher Brewery cosponsoring the event.
For the past few years we were honored to be the only local festival with industry professionals as judges like Uwe Boll, Zack Ward, Mark Metcalf, Rex Sikes and Lori Kahn, we continue that pattern with a mix of Milwaukee and Hollywood coming together to judge these films. Our 2009 judges are: Tim Lonsdale 1st AD (Pushing Daises, Eli Stone, Moscow on the Hudson), Third Coast Digest Publisher and film producer Jon Anne Willow (New Day) , Actor Jerry Houser (Slap Shot, Brady Girls Get Married, Summer of 42) Local Documentarian and Student Academy Award Winner Elizabeth Pollock Bruch (Indiana Aria, Atlantis Approching), Producer David Streit (F/X, Marrying Man, Jurassic Park III) and creative director Aubrey Walker.
Watch the preview of the festival here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T77r0oL_C1M&feature=channel_page
