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The new documentary Mama Bears explores how the lives of conservative Christian mothers are transformed when they decide to accept and advocate for their LGBTQ+ children. Producer Laura Tatham joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to share more about the film and its impact ahead of a screening at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee.

Small Town Wisconsin director Niels Mueller and actor David Sullivan join Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to share how the film is a Milwaukee success story.

The documentary “The Loyola Project” reexamines the impact of the 1963 Ramblers, whose national title run not only brought in a new era of equity in college basketball, but shaped the very style of how the game is played. Co-writer and narrator Lucas Williamson and director Patrick Creadon join Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski ahead of a free community screening at the Oriental Theater.

The Milwaukee Film Festival had showings at Milwaukee’s Oriental Theater and the Avalon. It also brought movie-goers back to the Times Cinema for the first time since they were forced to close due to the pandemic. Lee Barczak is the owner of the Times Cinema. He shares more about the history of the theater and plans for it now that the Film Fest has ended.

Filmmaker Jamie Boyle’s own family had addiction creep into their lives. Her documentary, Anonymous Sister, shows the before, during and after addiction — and the ramifications it sends throughout families, communities and the country.

First Lieutenant Loren Hintz of the Army Air Corps was based in Italy near the end of World War II. On April 21st, 1945, his P-47 fighter bomber was shot down. 70 years after his death, his family found the crash site and successfully excavated the plane and Hintz's remains. A new documentary chronicles this process and celebrates the life of Loren Hintz.

"Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" — that’s how a feature-length home movie that is the basis of Oscar Harding's documentary, A Life on the Farm, is best described. The documentary is being featured at the Milwaukee Film Festival, and Harding joins Lake Effect to share how a rural English farmer’s home movies goes from bizarre to touching life lessons.

Declining participation at Milwaukee’s Messmer High School, which is predominantly Black, and Shorewood High School, which has a predominantly white student population - led the schools to join forces to create a football team. The new documentary “Messwood” by filmmakers Brad Lichenstein and Emily Kuester follows the 2019 Messwood team.

The movie Pig, written and directed by Milwaukee-raised Michael Sarnoski, is a story about a reclusive man named Robin who lives in the woods alone with his truffle pig. His pig is stolen from him one night, and he goes on a quest to get it back. Milwaukee Magazine's Archer Parquette wrote an article arguing why Pig is the best movie of the year.

A new documentary called American Reckoning explores how the events around Wharlest Jackson Sr.'s death unfolded. Filmmakers Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen use rare archival footage from the 1960s to highlight the civil rights movement and Black resistance in Natchez, Mississippi.