Seize the City
Genre: Documentary
City / State: Shorewood, WI
Rating: PG
Runtime: 9 min.
Director: Melissa Flores, Vianca Fuster
Producer:
Website : N/A
Synopsis:
“Seize the City” is a short documentary that follows local Chicago graffiti artist Carpe Diem as he introduces graffiti as a form of art and speaks upon Chicago’s strict laws that have declared it a form of vandalism punishable with felony offenses.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
City / State: Milwaukee, WI
Rating: G
Runtime: 15 min
Director: Junehyuck Jeon
Producer: Junehyuck Jeon
Website : Invisible Library
Synopsis:
The one who delivers memories: transporting, distance, proximity, translating, remembering, forgetting.
Letters to Ashleigh
Genre: Documentary
City / State: Milwaukee, WI
Rating: G
Runtime: 23 min.
Director: Kyle C. Olson
Producer:
Website : Letters to Ashleigh
Synopsis:
“Letters to Ashleigh” is a documentary short about Ashleigh Love – a young girl who was senselessly murdered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Letters shows how one girl’s death inspired an entire community to make a change.
Furthermore, this film provides hope and inspiration to families who are battling similar circumstances so they can hopefully realize that even after the darkest of hours, you can still find strength to carry on
Nostalgic
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
City / State: Wilmette, IL
Rating: G
Runtime: 11 min.
Director: Ronald Eltanal
Producer: Dana Hodgdon, Matt Irvine, Josh Russell
Website : N/A
Synopsis:
An aging scientist must decide whether to give in to early-onset dementia, or to take an experimental drug which locks him into his memories, unable to form new ones..
Do As Told
Genre: Poetic, Experimental
City / State: Milwaukee, WI
Rating: G
Runtime: 5 min.
Director: Aaron Granat, Nina Ham
Producer: N/A
Website : N/A
Synopsis:
“Snippets of presidential speeches, flashes of collegiate revelry and repose, and some unnerving footage of two figures in wrinkly old-man masks become the raw material for a reflection on higher education’s promises and perils.
Aaron Granat and UW-student Nina Ham have crafted a sharp-elbowed yet artfully-diffuse work that critiques the conformity of contemporary learning institutions while (appropriately enough) leaving the viewer with more questions than answers.” Matt Connolly, Wisconsin Film Festival programmer
Carnival of the Animals
Genre: Documentary
City / State: Shorewood, WI
Rating: G
Runtime: 15 min
Director: Sitora Takanaev, Michael Krieger
Producer: Sitora Takanaev
Website : N/A
Synopsis:
A portrait of the beautiful, minute detail created by the hands of master craftsmen, embodied by the workers of Carousel Works, the country’s only maker of handmade, full-size wooden carousels.
Accompanied by the titular suite by Camille Saint-Saens that helped inspire it.
Inside & Out
Genre: Documentary
City / State: Madison, WI
Rating: G
Runtime: 3 min.
Director: Eric J. Nelson
Producer: Kristin Larson
Website : N/A
Synopsis:
Kyle, a sign-carrying air guitarist, puts on an epic rock show every day at the car wash where he works.
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