-
This past year, Milwaukee Film hired a new CEO, re-opened the historic Downer Theater and launched a brand new event around documentary film, which will start later this month. They've also made deep cuts to outreach programming that centers young, diverse voices — cuts that past employees say are hypocritical to the organization's stated mission.
-
Since 2014, Black Lens has worked to bring films and documentaries to the festival that spotlight emerging and established Black storytellers.
-
There is both a positive and thorny legacy that the 1997 film “Chasing Amy” has in the LGBTQ community. The new documentary "Chasing Chasing Amy" provides a new outlook on the complicated classic indie, both for its director Sav Rodgers and the people who made it.
-
The experimental documentary from Milwaukee filmmaker Jesse Mclean explores the relationships — and social contract — between people and the plants we live with.
-
A new documentary offers a nuanced exploration of a little-known chapter of America's atomic bomb history.
-
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.
-
In the new documentary, filmmaker Yinan Wang documents how he and his wife are separated from their US-born daughter when travel between the two countries they call home is shut down.
-
"Lady Like" takes an intimate look at Lady Camden’s life as she learns to navigate the glitz and unglamorous moments that come with newfound fame while coming to terms with the troubling childhood experiences she left behind in London.
-
The film centers a little on former UW-Madison Professor Davis and a lot about a music education foundation he created.
-
The documentary “No One Asked You” highlights a unique approach to activism in the fight for abortion rights — humor.