Date: October 29th and 30th, 2010

 

Location: The Milwaukee Art Museum's Lubar Auditorium (FILMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.)

 

 

 

 

 

Crossing the Lake
Directed by: Jerry LaBuy (MKE) 25 min  

 

 

 

 

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Alcides Soares was seventeen years old when he directed "Mozambique." He was chosen by American TV writer and executive producer, Neal Baer (ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and director Christopher Zalla (Sundance award winning "Padre Neustros") to make a film about his life as an AIDS orphan, searching to find a family after his parents have died. Alcides lives in Maputo, Mozambique and is finishing high school. He plans to study filmmaking and architecture in college.

 

Gold Digger (MKE Premiere)
Directed by: Karen Lindholm-Rynkiewicz (MKE) 18 min

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Judges for 2010

 

Annemarie Sawkins is associate curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University where she also teaches art history. A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie has had fun being a foreign voice in a couple Milwaukee shorts and is looking forward to reviewing this years films.

David Streit has a BA in dramatic literature from Lawrence University, Streit was in the first class of MFA candidates at NYU Film School. Professionally, he started as a cinematographer, becoming an operator in camera local 644, working also as an assistant director and location manager. As producer, he began in New York in independent features.

His first line producing was on ROCKERS. Shot entirely on location in Jamaica, it played at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978. Soon thereafter, and based in Los Angeles, he began alternating between UPM on larger features and Line Producing independents. Significant production and producing credits include: ALAMBRISTA! (Associate Producer); THE PROWLER, (Executive Producer); HANDGUN, (Producer); PARIS, TEXAS, (Production Manager); YURI NOSENKO, KGB, (Associate Producer); THE RIVER'S EDGE (Co-Producer/UPM); PASS THE AMMO, (Executive Producer); FIRES WITHIN, (Associate Producer); INTERNAL AFFAIRS (Co-Producer); DEEP COVER (Line Producer); THE MARRYING MAN (Executive Producer);HEAR NO EVIL (UPM); CAMP NOWHERE,(UPM/Associate Producer); SPECIES Executive Producer/UPM); STEAL BIG, STEAL LITTLE (UPM); THE BEAUTICIAN AND THE BEAST, (UPM); JURASSIC PARK III (UPM).

Shalyse Dominique is a respected Milwaukee film producer with Reign Supreme Entertainment. She's produced the films How High, Hack, Photo Agency International, Modus Operandi and Petty Cash. Shalyse also does music under the name Kohe.

 

Cyn Dulay is Founder and President of Stormynight, LLC. Established in September 2009. Dulay has 15 years business management and 6 years as an independent film producer.

Stormynight is a multimedia entertainment company that specializes in independent motion pictures. Stormynight is involved in all facets of film production from conception, development, production and financing of independent film and television productions. Stormynight’s main goal is to make commercially viable films that combine established and emerging talents in the industry.

Dulay spent the last 6 years acting in a total of 27 independent and studio films. In 2004, she took on the role of film producer. To date, Dulay has produced, executive produced and financed 17 feature length films, 3 television pilots, and 3 independent shorts. Several films have received distribution deals through Warner Bros., Finnkino, and Triumphant Pictures. In 2008, she co-produced with writer/producer Cathy Rubey of Irish Peanut Productions and director Stephen Polk of Providence Productions (Pirate Camp, Black Dahlia) on a drama feature film titled, “Baggage” (Cheryl Ladd, Barry Bostwick) receiving worldwide distribution and currently in film festival circuit and will premiere on the Lifetime Channel this November.

In September 2009, Stormynight has partnered with Penny Road Pictures (The Insatiable) and Sweet Pea Productions who brought in Writer/Director Omar McClinton (The Dark Knight, Frailty, Scary Movie 2, Witless Protection, Ugly Betty, Xena The Warrior Princess) to launch a 3D Animated Feature Film “Stork”, starring Ed Asner (UP, Elf, Mary Tyler Moore Show). Stork casts members also include, Tim Kazurinsky (Saturday Night Live), Joyce De Witt (Three‘s Company), Brian Bloom (The A-Team, CSI), Kim Fields (The Facts Of Life, Different Strokes), and Larry Thomas (Seinfeld‘s Soup Nazi, Austin Powers, Postal). Not only does Stork Productions have an award winning casts, but also an award winning visual effects company, Pixel Magic (Good Luck Chuck, Rush Hour 3, 300, Blood Diamond, Elektra) and award winning art department, Heroic Age Studios ( Lucas’ Film Darth Vader, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, DC Comic‘s Batman, Marvel Comic’s Spider-man, and Hanna Barbera’s Scooby-Doo).

Timothy Lonsdale grew up in Manitowoc, writer/director Timothy Lonsdale considers himself a Wisconsin native. After three years as a radio communications sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret), he received a B.A. and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Three years in Dallas lead to an M.F.A. in Theatre (Acting) from Southern Methodist University, work in the Dallas TV series, the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, as well as radio and TV commercials and a Midwest tour playing Dickinson in 1776.

After moving to New York, Lonsdale was accepted into the Directors Guild of America Training Program. A member of the DGA for 25 years, he has worked as an Assistant Director for scores of directors including Martin Scorsese, Barry Sonnenfeld, M. Night Shyamalan and several Emmy/DGA Award winners. He has directed for Charmed (Aaron Spelling and Warner Bros.) and is attached to direct a feature screenplay that he has written.

Significant production credits as an Assistant Director include: Hudson Hawk, Lost in Yonkers, Species, Charmed, Ghost Whisperer, The District, Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies, and most recently, four seasons on My Boys for Sony/TBS. And Comedy Centrals's upcoming Kroc.

 

JUDGES CRITERIA

The films are judged on the three merits of:

• technical skill
• artistic representation
  
• entertainment value.
  

The judges rank each film and then return the scores to be tallied by the film fest directors. The judges also consider the cast of each film for Best Actor/Actress/Ensemble Award.

The Audience Favorite film is picked by the audience on the closing night of the festival. The votes are tabulated and the film awarded that evening.

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Beziehungsphasen (MKE Premiere)
Directed by: Brenda Hilbig (Germany) 04 min
A student, who lives in a room on campus, is expecting a female friend he likes a lot. She also likes him and they get together. Then they move together into a bigger apartment. Day to day life takes over the madly-in-love-phase. Then they go in for a career and move into an even bigger apartment with a bigger kitchen. Now they don't talk any more. They only write notes. In the last scene she has written him a note that she is leaving him. He is sad, how had it come to this? He remembers the good times and is thinking about what it was he REALLY wanted from life.

 

Plane. Red. Love. (MKE Premiere)
Directed by: Jesse Borkowski (ME) 06 min 

 

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Leka med Dockor (MKE Premiere)
Directed by: Hans Montelius (Sweden) 12 min
 

The Life & Times of Frederick Caesar
Directed by: Tate Bunker (MKE) 5 min 

 

 

Super Cool Bowling Awesome Trick Shots 
Directed by: Jack Packard (MKE) 2 min
Some guys make basketball trick shot videos but the real bad asses make super cool awesome bowling trick videos.

 

Special apperance by Bai Ling.