Filmmakers, subjects, speakers, panelists, film industry people, judges, and other guests who appeared at the 2012 Milwaukee Film Festival
Guests who participated in the 2012 Milwaukee Film Festival:
FILMMAKERS
3,2,1…Frankie Go Boom
Elliott Lewitt - Executive Producer
Jordan Roberts - Director
Saturday, Sept 29 • 9:30 PM • Oriental Theatre
An Affair of the Heart
Sylvia Carminer - Director
Melanie Lentz-Janney - Executive Producer
Friday, Sept 28 • 7 PM • Downer Theatre
Saturday, Sept 29 • 5:45 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema Grill
An American Contradiction (from the Shorts: Quiet Riots program)
Vanessa Yuille - Director
Wednesday, Oct 3 • 4:30 PM • Downer Theatre
Saturday, Oct 6 • 4 PM • Oriental Theatre
Andrew Bird: Fever Year
Xan Aranda - Director/Producer
Saturday, Sept 29 • 9:45 PM • Oriental Theatre
Sunday, Sept 30 • 3 PM • Oriental Theatre
As Goes Janesville
Brad Lichtenstein - Director
Saturday, Oct 6 • 5 PM • Oriental Theatre
Monday, Oct 8 • 2:15 PM • Oriental Theatre
Tuesday, Oct 9 • 7:15 PM • Downer Theatre
Thursday, Oct 11 • 8:15 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Beauty is Embarrassing
Neil Berkeley - Director
Wayne White - Subject
Sunday, Sept 30 • 5 PM • Oriental Theatre
Sunday, Sept 30 • 6:30 PM • Alterra Prospect (party)
Bending Towards The Light
Brad Pruitt - Director
Sunday, Oct 7 • 7:15 PM • Oriental Theatre
Monday, Oct 8 • 5 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Blackmail
Alloy Orchestra - Live Orchestral Accompaniment
Monday, Oct 8 • 7 PM • Oriental Theatre
Brooklyn Castle
Katie Dellamaggiore - Director
Nelson Dellamaggiore - Producer
Wednesday, Oct 10 • 5 PM • Oriental Theatre
Chilly (from the Shorts: Whodunit? program)
Dylan Kohler - Director
Monday, Oct 1 • 6 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Cock Gun (short film screening before Klown)
Jack Packard - Director
Saturday, Oct 6 • Midnight • Oriental Theatre
Deadweight
Adam Bartlett - Director
John Pata - Director
Saturday, Sept 29 • 7 PM • Oriental Theatre
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Alex Gibney - Presenter
Friday, Oct 5 • 2:15 PM • Oriental Theatre
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
Joshua Green - Executive Producer
Sunday, Sept 30 • 7:30 PM • Oriental Theatre
The Giant Spider Invasion
Bill Rebane - Director
Mark Borchardt – Presenter
Saturday, Oct 6 • 9:30 PM • Oriental Theatre
The Girl And The Fox (part of the Kids Shorts Sized Large program)
Tyler Kupferer - Director
Saturday, Oct 6 • 1 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Sunday, Oct 7 • 1 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
A Girl Like Her
Ann Fessler - Director
Sally Burke – subject
Wednesday, Oct 3 • 7 PM • Downer Theatre
I Am X (part of the Kids Shorts Sized Medium program)
Elise Fachon - Director
Saturday, Sept 29 • 12:15 PM • Oriental Theatre
I Want My Name Back
Joshua Green - Executive Producer
Friday, Sept 28 • 9:45 PM • Oriental Theatre
Inland Empire
J. Hoberman – Presenter
Sunday, Sept 30 • 4 PM • Downer Theatre
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
Chris James Thompson - Director
Tuesday, Oct 2 • 7 PM • Oriental Theatre
Monday, Oct 8 • 2:15 PM • Oriental Theatre
Tuesday, Oct 9 • 7:15 PM • Downer Theatre
Thursday, Oct 11 • 8:15 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Last Day At Lambeau
Michael Johnson - Writer
David Neelson - Producer
Michael Neelson - Director/Producer
Saturday, Sept 29 • 1 PM • Oriental Theatre
Sunday, Sept 30 • Noon • Fox-Bay Cinema
Tuesday, Oct 2 • 7 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Little Red
Tate Bunker - Director
Sunday, Sept 30 • 7:15 PM • Oriental Theatre
Wednesday, Oct 3 • 4:30 PM • Oriental Theatre
Wednesday, Oct 10 • 7:15 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Me At The Zoo
Jack Turner - Producer
Saturday, Sept 29 • 7:30 PM • Downer Theatre
Thursday, Oct 4 • 4:30 PM • Fox Bay Cinema
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Alex Gibney - Director
Arthur Budzinski – Subject
Gary Smith - Subject
Friday, Oct 5 • 7 PM • Oriental Theatre
The Milwaukee Show
Tate Bunker - Studies In Space
Brooke Duckart - Cat Waco
Jon Elliott - The Evilest of Sorcerers
Ericka Frederick - Walking Peace
Erik Ljung - Sing (For Trouble)
Blyth Renate Meier - So I Could Fly Away
Steven Miosku - Gears
Giorgi Mrevlishvili - Reflection (Anarekli)
Brian McGuire - She Leaves The City
Nathaniel Schardin - The Vampire Formerly Known As Dracula
Sean Williamson - Sing (For Trouble)
Thursday, Oct 4 • 7 PM • Oriental Theatre
No God No Master
Terry Green - Director
(plus local cast & crew)
Sunday, Oct 7 • 7:30 PM • Oriental Theatre
Tuesday, Oct 9 • 7:15 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
The Princess Bride
John Axford – Presenter
Saturday, Oct 6 • 2:30 PM • Oriental Theatre
Remote Area Medical (from the Shorts: Quiet Riots program)
Jeff Reichert - Director
Farihah Zaman - Director
Saturday, Sept 29 • 7:15 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Sans Soleil
J. Hoberman - Presenter
Saturday, Sept 29 • 4:45 PM • Oriental Theatre
Sleepover
Laj P. Waghray - Director
Sunday, Oct 7 • 4:15 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
Wednesday, Oct 10 • 7:45 PM • Oriental Theatre
Taxi to the Darkside
Alex Gibney - Director
Thursday, Oct 4 • 6:45 PM • Oriental Theatre
Tchoupitoulas
Bill Ross IV - Director
Turner Ross - Director
Saturday, Oct 6 • 9:30 PM • Oriental Theatre
We’re Not Broke
Victoria Louise Bruce - Director/Producer
Karin Lynne Hayes, Director/Producer
Saturday, Sept 29 • 4 PM • Oriental Theatre
Sunday, Sept 30 • 7:30 PM • Fox-Bay Cinema
PANELISTS
Access and Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking
Saturday, Oct 6 • 1 PM • Kenilworth Square East 640
• Janet Fitch - New Moon Productions
• Bill Ross IV - Director, Tchoupitoulas
• Turner Ross - Director, Tchoupitoulas
Chinese Cinema in a Transnational Frame
Saturday, Sept 29 • 1 PM • Kenilworth Square East 640
• Jennifer Feeley - Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
• Dr. Jian Xu - Associate Professor, UW-Milwaukee
Dahmer, Milwaukee
Sunday, Oct 7 • 5 PM • Kenilworth Square East 640
• Dr. Joe Austin - Associate Professor of History, UW-Milwaukee
• James E. Causey - Columnist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Dr. Pat Kennedy - Former homicide detective, Milwaukee Police Department; key interrogator in the
Dahmer investigation
• Chris James Thompson - Director, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
Film Distro 101
Saturday, Sept 29 • 3 PM • Kenilworth Square East 640
• Xan Aranda - director/producer, Andrew Bird: Fever Year
• Victoria Louise Bruce - Director/Producer, We’re Not Broke
• Andrew Carlin - Head of Theatrical Sales and Acquisitions, Music Box Films
• Silke Cole - Film Distribution Consultant
• Karin Lynne Hayes - Director/Producer, We’re Not Broke
• Karen Roberts - CEO KLR Entertainment; former Senior VP Acquisitions, Entertainment Studios
Financing Your Film
Sunday, Oct 7 • 2 PM • Kenilworth Square East 640
• ldi Toth Davy - Managing Director, Altadena Films
• Mark Foote - Flexible Films LLC
• Michael Raisler - Creative Director/Executive Producer, Cinereach
• Erin Sorensen – president, Third Stage Consulting, Inc.
MKE At Risk: After-School Programs
Wednesday, Oct 10 • 7:30 PM • Kenilworth Square East 640
• Alan Borsuk - Senior Fellow in Law and Public Policy, Marquette University Law School
State of Cinema in the 21st Century: Film After Film
Sunday, Sept 30 • 1 PM • Downer Theatre
• Keynote Speaker: J. Hoberman - Author, Film Critic
Three A-holes Talk About Web Videos
Saturday, Oct 6 • 7 PM • Y-Not III Tavern
• Jay Bauman - Red Letter Media
• Kara Mulrooney - Gal Friday Films
• Jack Packard - Funny Or Die
• Mike Stoklasa - Red Letter Media
JUDGES
CREAM CITY CINEMA
John Axford - Milwaukee Brewers
Deb McClutchy - Oscilloscope Pictures
Michael Raisler - Creative Director, Cinereach; Executive producer, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Laurel Ward - VP of Development, Ocean Pictures
COMPETITION PROGRAM
Ildi Toth Davy – Altadena Pictures
David Heuring - Cinematographer
Brad Wilke - Programmer, Seattle International Film Festival