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Friday, July 18, 2025

2025 7 Day Challenge Judges

Jessica Smith is an entrepreneur and narrative and documentary filmmaker based out of Milwaukee, WI. She is a photographer turned filmmaker who has a passion for the creative community and filmmaking for change. Jess works part-time as a director of photography and has worked on several documentaries and short films including "Touch of Soul" and "Humans of Wisconsin."











Ken is a photographer/actor/filmmaker/writer working in the film industry, based in Milwaukee, WI. He has 25+ years of experience working in the entertainment industry and has worked, both in front of and behind the lens as well as behind the scenes in various capacities: Actor, Set Design, Prop Design, Production Artwork, Writer, Director, Producer and Location Manager/Scout.

He has successfully brought his experience to various size productions contributing to works like Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), The Wheel (Short 2011), Tragic Consequences (Post production), Rearview (Short 2024), Sirius Beta (Short 2024), The Road Taken (in production), Perception (Pre-production).


Jozef K. Richards is an American filmmaker, author, illustrator, and media producer born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He’s known for his independent work in film, satire, web series, and children's literature.
Film and Media Career
Founder of King’s Tower Productions, later rebranded as Kintou Media Company.

Directed and produced various works including:

The Amateur Monster Movie (2011)
The Wayward Sun (2013)
Short films like Un Jardín Adentro de La Violencia (2014) and Nicolas Cage Mother Mary (2018), the latter winning an audience award at the Milwaukee Short Film Festival.

Created the satirical web series “Holy Shit” (2015–2017), a comedic critique of religion, directed the documentary Batman & Jesus (2017), which questions the historical existence of Jesus. The trailer was shown during a Wu-Tang Clan concert at the 2016 Reason Rally, and the full documentary premiered at Milwaukee’s historic Pabst Theater

Produced the web series “Friday Night Weekly” (2013–2015), traveling to countries like Colombia, Egypt, and the UAE.

In 2023, launched a new series titled Japan by Foot under Kintou Media.

Children's Books
In 2025, he wrote and illustrated The Tocks on the Clock, a picture book aimed at helping kids learn to tell time using imaginative, character-based storytelling.

Available in print and digital formats.




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