Anniversary Film: Missed Connections

Missed Connections by Susan Kerns & Kara Mulrooney
Milwaukee
Running Time: 14 Minutes
Screening Time: Saturday September 8th 9pm Juried
Comedy/Romance
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Missed connections become connections made in this romantic comedy based on personal ads. Featuring Busby Berkeley-inspired dancers and a fanciful score from the tomorrows of yesterday, 'Missed Connections' transports viewers to a space where dreams of love come alive!

In the spaceship-shaped 1960s-era supper club 'The Gobbler,' outdoor superstore employee Sandals musters the nerve to ask lovely long-time customer Farmer to dance. Golden Fox reunites with Plant Manager, and this time, it's animal. Appletini, the irrepressible and oft inebriated red-head, captures the hearts and desires of not one, but two police officers. And a car accident turns into a love connection for opposites Car Crash and Hottie on a Bike.

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Directors' Bio:

Kara Mulrooney is an independent filmmaker, commercial producer and production designer from Milwaukee, WI. Mulrooney's "One Block Away" screened in the 2014 Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner, her short “An Evening at Angelo’s,” won the Cream City Cinema Jury Prize at its premiere, and her most recent film "jazzy@32 (a true story)" won the Golden Badger Award at its premiere.


In 2010 Mulrooney co-founded Gal Friday Films, a film producing partnership aimed at increasing the number of women in above-line positions, with filmmaker and Columbia Professor Susan Kerns. Mulrooney and Kerns also co-founded the FILM FURIES, a “gang of gals who make films or work behind camera in the film industry.”

Mulrooney’s documentary work centers on American cultures, trends, and characters, and she recently directed a pair of short films for 371 Productions and the John Michael Kohler Art Center. She is currently in post-production on the short documentary “American Salute” about an intensely patriotic original grade school musical. Mulrooney also played a lead role in the independent paranormal feature "The Field," coming Spring 2019. 

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Filmmaker Susan Kerns is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Feminist Film Festival, and Co-Founder with Kara Mulrooney of Film Furies, a Milwaukee-based group that supports female, trans, and gender non-conforming filmmakers, as an extension of Gal Friday Films. She produced the documentary Manlife, which won the Audience Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and wrote the screenplay for Little Red, which won Best Feature awards at the Berlin Independent, Canada International, Great Lakes, and Driftless film festivals. She also has produced or directed numerous award-winning short films, including Missed Connections. Formerly, she was Education Director at the Milwaukee Film Festival, and she has been on the jury of the Chicago International Film Festival, Diversity in Cannes, Cine Golden Eagle Awards, and the Nashville Film Festival, among others. She is also a published author, and her articles can be found in Nip/Tuck: Television that Gets Under Your Skin, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Comunicazioni Sociali, and Routledge’s forthcoming Handbook of Contemporary Feminism. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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