Movies & TV - Sept. 8, 2009
Milwaukee Film announces festival film schedule
Milwaukee Film has announced the schedule of films for the 2009 Milwaukee Film Festival, which makes its debut this year.
Tags: Milwaukee Film, film festival

Milwaukee Buzz - Sept. 1, 2009
Milwaukee heat index: September 2009
There's never a shortage of new people, events, decisions and ideas in Milwaukee, some moving the city forward and some holding it back. In this subjective and light-hearted article, we take Milwaukee's temperature for at the start of September 2009.
Tags: heat index, brett favre, doug melvin, swine flu, david cross, bon iver, milwaukee film, aaron rodgers, smoking ban

Movies & TV - Aug. 30, 2009
Short Film festival preps 11th annual event
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.
Tags: Short Film Festival, Milwaukee Film, Ross Bigley, Oriental Theatre, Milwaukee Art Museum, Live on North, Eisner Museum, Milwaukee Independent Film Society

Movies & TV - Aug. 3, 2009
Milwaukee Film gets a big gift and "No God No Master" fires up at Pabst brewery
Milwaukee Film announced today that MLB commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig and his wife Sue will give a $200,000 gift for the 2009 and 2010 Milwaukee Film Festivals. In other news, "No God No Master" filming is set to fire up today at the old Pabst brewery.
Tags: Milwaukee Film, Bud Selig, Sue Selig, No God No Master, Pabst brewery

Movies & TV - April 8, 2009
Is Denzel coming to Milwaukee?
Several sources say that director Tony Scott is in the Milwaukee area today scouting for a new 20th Century Fox film tentatively called "Unstoppable," an action train drama scheduled for a 2011 release.
Tags: Denzel Washington, Wisconsin Film, Unstoppable, Tony Scott, film tax credits, Milwaukee Film

Movies & TV - March 18, 2009
Milwaukee Film announces new festival
After dipping its toe into the local scene with a number of smaller-scale events, Milwaukee Film has announced the Milwaukee Film Festival, which takes place Sept. 24-Oct. 4.
Tags: Milwaukee Film, MIFF, Milwaukee Film Festival, Jonathan Jackson, Diane Bacha, Berlinale

Movies & TV - Feb. 13, 2009
Markets bring together the most surprising films
When I first came to the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003, I expected to be ensconced in the great tradition of European art cinema. While that was and still is the case, I also wade through the morass of the European Film Market.
Tags: berlin international film festival, berlinale, european film market, milwaukee film, independent film, jonathan jackson

Movies & TV - Feb. 10, 2009
Stormy Berlinale
In "Storm" we follow a prosecutor trying a war time commander of the Yugoslavian National Army at The International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague.
Tags: 59th berlin international film festival, milwaukee film, jonathan jackson, berlinale, hans-christian schmid

Movies & TV - Feb. 7, 2009
Milwaukee, Chicago, Brussels ... Berlinale!
In his debut blog on OnMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee Film Artistic Director Jonathan Jackson writes from Berlin, the site of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.
Tags: 59th Berlin International Film Festival, Milwaukee Film, Jonathan Jackson, The International, Diane Bacha, EFM, Sundance, Berlinale

Movies & TV - Jan. 21, 2009
I kissed Mike Schank from "American Movie"
I'm using this smooch confession as a lede, and a cheap lede at that, to segue into the fact that "American Movie" is 10 years old, and an anniversary screening is set for Thursday, Jan. 22, at Landmark's Oriental Theatre at 7 p.m.
Tags: American Movie, Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Sarah Price, Chris Smith, Sundance Film Festival, Oriental Theatre, Milwaukee Film

Movies & TV - Dec. 23, 2008
Milwaukee Film toasts 10 years of "American Movie"
Milwaukee Film has announced plans to host a 10th anniversary screening of Chris Smith's award-winning cult hit "American Movie" and the Milwaukee premiere of Faythe Levine's highly anticipated documentary "Handmade Nation."
Tags: Milwaukee Film, Diane Bacha, American Movie, Chris Smith, Oriental Theater, Handmade Nation, Faythe Levine, MIFF, Milwaukee Film Festival

Living - Nov. 15, 2008
Couple's creative career is a local Establishment
He's a film guy -- writing, shooting, editing and producing. She's the beauty queen -- styling, applying, coloring and trimming. Together they are The Establishment. Upon opening in early summer 2004, their focus was music videos; Howie Goldklang would film and direct, and Carly Flynn would style the stars, like she'd been doing in L.A.
Tags: the establishment, howie goldklang, carly flynn, salon, milwaukee film, dj how, rocksteady, smoked out

Movies & TV - Oct. 14, 2008
Milwaukee Film shares launch event lineup
Just last week Milwaukee Film, the newly formed independent organization that will host Milwaukee's premier film festival, announced Diane Bacha as its executive director. Today it announces the lineup for its premiere event, "The Milwaukee Show," on Thursday, Oct. 23, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Tags: milwaukee film, film festival, the milwaukee show, diane bacha, mark metcalf, tate bunker, andrew swant, bobby ciraldo, oriental theatre

Movies & TV - Oct. 9, 2008
Milwaukee Film names executive director
Milwaukee Film today named Diane Bacha as its executive director. Milwaukee Film is the newly formed independent organization that will host Milwaukee's premier film festival.
Tags: Milwaukee Film, Chris Abele, Jonathan Jackson, The Milwaukee Show, Song Sung Blue, Lightning & Thunder, Oriental Theatre, Diane Bacha, Argosy Foundation

Movies & TV - Aug. 25, 2008
Milwaukee Film accepting submissions
Milwaukee Film, the new independent film festival in the city, hosts its first screening, "The Milwaukee Show," on Oct. 23. Milwaukee County residents are encouraged to submit short films for consideration in this showcase of local films by Sept. 19.
Tags: Milwaukee Film, Jonathan Jackson, The Milwaukee Show