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Feeling overwhelmed by the options in the Milwaukee Film Festival? The shorts can be a good starting point.

This month's Group Chat features two Susans of film: Susan Kerns, executive director of Milwaukee Film and legendary filmmaker Susan Seidelman. They have a conversation about everything from being the first to cast Madonna for the film "Desperately Seeking Susan" to the power of film festivals.

The new documentary, SALLY reveals Sally Ride's 27-year partnership with Tam O’Shaughnessy — who tells the full story of the complicated and iconic astronaut.

As of Feb. 3, Dr. Susan Kerns is the new executive director of Milwaukee Film—an appointment that follows a year of transition and tumult.

For Black History Month, Milwaukee Film's Ty Williams has handpicked a variety of films that exemplify the dynamic range of Black stories told through cinema.

Wisconsin has an impressive, homegrown motorcycle racing scene that’s supported many riders from childhood well into adulthood as professional racers. One of those racers was West Allis native Charlotte Kainz. The documentary "Angels of Dirt" traces Kainz's meteoric rise in Flat Track racing and the larger community she impacted.

Writer-director Whit Stillman joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to about his first film “Metropolitan” that earned him an Academy Award nomination and has become a holiday classic ahead of a screening at Milwaukee's Oriental Theater.

Janan Najeeb, president and cofounder of the Muslim Women’s Coalition, shares a preview of the ninth annual Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival at the Oriental Theater.

Ahead of his screening at the Milwaukee Film Dialogues Documentary festival, filmmaker Ben Albert joins Lake Effect to talk about his first feature-length film, "An Invitation to Wonder: Waubesa Wetlands."

Through experimental cinematography and sound, the documentary "unseen" reimagines accessibility in cinema while following the life of an undocumented aspiring social worker named Pedro.