Winter Cranes by Joseph V. Brown
Milwaukee (Milwaukee Premiere)
Running Time: 4 minutes
Screening Time: Sat, Sept 7th 6:45pm
Nature/Environmental/Documentary
A short observational documentary that chronicles the Sandhill Crane migration near Baraboo, Wisconsin. Shot on location at the Aldo Leopold Center amidst 10,000 cranes in late November 2018.
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Director's Bio:
Joe Brown is a filmmaker and educator. His film work has been featured by festivals such as: The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the Birmingham Sidewalk Festival, the Dallas International Film Festival, the Milwaukee Film Festival, and the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. Brown's current production, Operation Wolf Patrol, has been featured by web platforms such as: TakePart.com, The DoDo, and the Earth Island Journal. Brown teaches video production at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.
33RPM by Paul Gall
Milwaukee (Milwaukee Premiere)
Running Time: 9 minutes
Screening Time: Sat, Sept 7th 9pm
Thriller/Horror 
A young man is haunted by the recording on a recently purchased album.
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Director's Bio:
Paul Gall was born in Illinois in 1991. He went to college for graphic design, but took a filmmaking class while studying abroad in England and fell in love with it. From then on, he's been working toward a career in making movies.
Paul lives in Milwaukee, WI, and works at a marketing agency as their cinematographer and editor.
Director's Statement:
Thank you so much for checking out our creepy little short film. We had an amazing group of people come together one Saturday to make this thing happen and I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.
A Short: Audition by T.C. De Witt
Milwaukee (Milwaukee Premiere)
Running Time: 5 minutes
Screening Time: Friday, Sept 6th 6:45pm
Comedy
Owen, and enthusiastic young actor, has landed an audition, but it quickly ceases to live up to his expectations.
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Director's Bio:
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director/actor originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He's been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. While beginning his career on the stage as a playwright and stand-up, he eventually moved into screenwriting and film & television production and has been thriving for nearly a decade. His films have screened at numerous festivals around the world garnering many accolades both in the States and internationally. His success include 5 Best Director Awards, 10 Best Picture Winners, 5 Audience Choice Awards, and a trio of Best Writing awards. He regularly offers his skills to several YouTube partners, Production studios in Los Angeles and the Midwest, and has been a script consultant and ghostwriter on over 60 production just in 2017 so far.
He has worked in Los Angeles since 2007, but he always finds his way back to Wisconsin. As a founding member of Firmament Films, a Madison based production company, as well as a co-founder of [REDACTED] Media out of Milwaukee, T.C. knows Wisconsin and the Midwest to be the best source of creativity, dedication, and an underrepresented wellspring of talent for storytelling through film, and he is proud to continue to work out of Milwaukee with [REDACTED] Media and Wisconsin talent.
Epiphany by Artie Terry
ST. Paul MN (Milwaukee Premiere)
Running Time: 5 minutes
Screening Time: Sat, Sept 7th 4:30pm
Drama
Sometimes a man just thinks too much.
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Director's Bio:
Artie Terry is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies
at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Terry's research interests include screenwriting, film, the history of film, and the films of African American filmmakers.
Straight Or Alive by Elvira Ibragimova
Chicago, IL (Milwaukee Premiere)
Running Time: 9 minutes
Screening Time: Sat, Sept 7th 9pm
Horror/Comedy
A group of people attempt to escape a conversion camp that's turning the nation's gays into straight zombies!
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Director's Bio:
Elvira is a graduate of The Harold Ramis Film School, a program that focuses entirely on comedy. Prior to starting film school, Elvira studied improv and sketch. She has trained and performed at Upright Citizen’s Brigade, The Second City, Improv Olympic and The Pit. She’s a member of the sketch group Spitball.
Charlie and the Empty Factories by J. Anthony Ramos
Milwaukee (Milwaukee Premiere)
Running Time: 4 minutes
Screening Time: Friday, Sept 6th 9pm
Thriller/Drama
Charlie never bought into that, The World is Ending crap, was never afraid of it, but then it did end, he survived, and it suuuuucks.
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Director's Bio:
J. Anthony Ramos (you can call him “Tony”) was born and raised in Southeastern WI. He is an actor, writer, and director who enjoys all film genres, Sci-Fi and Horror in particular. He looks forward to continuing to grow as a storyteller.
Director's Statement:
Having a conversation about the end of world as we know it, I mentioned to my friend, that if it ever did go down, I’d hope I would go quick, and not survive whatever cataclysm ended all civilization. He asked me why, and I told him that because with my luck, I'd be the only one to survive and that would suck. I also added that instead of being grateful to have survived, I’d most likely be a very angry, bitter person, who'd probably turn a little crazy with no one around to talk to. This conversation created Charlie in, Charlie and the Empty Factories.
The Dream Machine by Sergio Torres
Milwaukee
Running Time: 7 minutes
Screening Time: Friday, Sept 6th 9pm
Comedy
Longing to be a movie star, Jack buys a machine that promises to turn all of his dreams into movies.
Director's Bio:
Writer. Director. Creative Thinker.
Always dreaming. Barely sleeping.
Forever hoping. Never quitting.
‘Cause making movies makes me happy.
