Local filmmakers delve "Into The Pit" with Deadpit.com documentary

Published April 3, 2010 at 9:03 a.m.


For real horror film fans, Deadpit Radio, an Internet radio show, as been the ultimate authority on the genre since launching in 2005, and its hosts, "Uncle Bill" and "The Creepy Kentuckian," have, for the most part, been as mysterious as they've been influential to the film industry.

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Making it Home Film Festival serves up movies and environmentalist McKibben

Published April 13, 2010 at 5:17 a.m.


A visit by environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben kicks off this week's Making It Home Film Festival, April 16-18 at the Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Pl., on Milwaukee's East Side.

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Found Footage Festival returns home to Wisconsin

Published Dec. 12, 2009 at 9:06 a.m.


When the fifth Found Footage Festival comes to the Oriental Theater this week, it will be a homecoming not only for founders Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, but also for the festival, which got its start when Prueher and Pickett found an insipid McDonald's training video in the break room of a Stoughton fast food restaurant. Also, The Times hosts a stop on another nation-wide film tour.

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"Fish Fry Night Milwaukee" traces a Brew City tradition

Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 11:20 a.m.


Ron Faiola visits some of Milwaukee's most beloved fish fry venues in his hour-long documentary, "Fish Fry Night Milwaukee." The film, which made its world premiere in Milwaukee in October, screens Friday, Feb. 19 in Beloit as part of the Beloit International Film Festival.

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Showtime! Milwaukee Film Festival opens tonight

Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 5:15 a.m.


It has been a long and difficult year, but the Milwaukee Film Festival is ready to rise from the ashes of its predecessor. Thanks to the hard work of Jonathan Jackson, Kyle Heller, TJ Fackelman and a board of directors that includes many of the smartest, most imaginative, active and important people in the community -- people with a deep passion for film, the creative world and Milwaukee -- this is a time to celebrate. The Milwaukee Film Festival opens today!

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Short Film festival preps 11th annual event

Published Aug. 30, 2009 at 10:18 a.m.


The Milwaukee Independent Film Society presents the 11th installment of the Milwaukee Short Film Festival, billed as the longest-running film festival in Milwaukee. The three-day event takes place Sept. 11-13 and boasts 44 films from around the globe.

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Wisconsin Film Festival: Day 2 report

Published April 5, 2009 at 5:31 p.m.


The second day of the 2009 Wisconsin Film Festival offered promise from the start. Brisk air off the dueling lakes carried with it a chill, but nothing more malevolent than that, meaning opening night slickers were traded for multiple layers and thoughtfully knotted scarves.

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Madison Film Fest kicks off in grand style

Published April 3, 2009 at 10:11 a.m.


Despite the persistent grey and pestering rain, the 11th annual Wisconsin Film Festival kicked off in grand, if slightly wet, style Thursday. And the weather notwithstanding, if the turnout for the opening night special presentation of "500 Days of Summer" was any indication, this promises to be a big four days on the capital isthmus.

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"Handmade Nation" knits together a close community

Published Feb. 6, 2009 at 11:58 a.m.


The only thing more extraordinary than the showing of the locally made feature documentary "Handmade Nation," was the locally produced buzz and turnout that greeted the film at the Oriental Theatre last night.

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